York is seeking a highly skilled Site Reliability Engineer to join our Observability and Reliability team to support mission critical integration, testing, and production environments across both on-premises and cloud infrastructure. This role is responsible for maintaining high-availability Linux systems, ensuring strong data integrity practices, and driving automation to improve resilience and operational excellence. The ideal candidate thrives in fast-paced engineering environments and takes ownership of the full lifecycle of system deployment, health, security, monitoring, and reliability.
Responsibilities
- Maintain and enhance on-prem observability systems to ensure deep operational visibility and rapid issue detection.
- Own the backup and data‑integrity infrastructure, ensuring secure, reliable, and tested recovery processes.
- Guarantee high‑availability across a fleet of roughly 100+ Linux systems supporting critical operations.
- Monitor on-prem production environments used for system integration and testing activities.
- Monitor cloud‑based test and sandbox environments used for data visualization and trainings.
- Manage and monitor simulation server infrastructure to ensure stable and high‑performance execution.
- Design, implement, and maintain automation for fault detection, resilience, and self‑healing across systems.
- Provision, configure, and validate new Linux machines for deployment in on‑prem facilities, including secure ones.
- Support production test operations on manufacturing floors and specialized offline test sites, ensuring reliable system performance and minimal downtime.
- Supported Linux network administration, troubleshooting IP addressing, DNS resolution, and Netplan configuration problems.
- Ability to document, triage, and report daily issues found in production environments
Required Qualifications
- 5+years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering or similar field
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
- Strong experience managing and administering Linux systems in production environments.
- Proven expertise with observability platforms, monitoring tools, and logging/metric pipelines.
- Ability to diagnose complex system issues and collaborate cross‑functionally with engineering and operations teams.
- Comfortable supporting production environments, including occasional on‑site manufacturing or test facility work.
Preferred Qualifications
- Active S/TS security clearance or ability to obtain
- Hands‑on experience with backup systems, data‑integrity workflows, and disaster recovery practices.
- Familiarity with cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure, GCP, or similar) and hybrid deployment models.
- Proficiency in scripting and automation (e.g., Python, Bash, Ansible, Terraform).
- Experience with high‑availability systems, resilience engineering, and distributed systems concepts.
- Experience with scalable observability frameworks or large fleet management.
- Knowledge of configuration management, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure‑as‑code approaches
- Comfortable with networking concepts and protocols
- Tools and Languages
- Docker, Linux, Python, Bash, Ansible, Terraform, GitLab CI (or similar), Git, Grafana, Alloy, Prometheus, Influx
- Terminology and Understanding
- Infrastructure as Code, configuration management, containerization, security baselining and hardening, static/software composition analysis (SAST/SCA), cloud infrastructure administration