Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Linuxconfig; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Linuxconfig is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to join our cloud engineering team. This operations-focused role owns day-to-day administration of AWS accounts and databases, maintaining backup posture across data stores and providing production monitoring and debugging for a serverless platform.

You will lead incident response, manage on-call rotation, and continuously refine infrastructure as code (SST/Pulumi/Terraform) to keep deployments safe, scalable, and cost-visible, while

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree and 4–6 years of related experience or equivalent work experience.
• 5+ years of DevOps, site reliability, or platform operations with significant responsibility for production systems.
• 3+ years hands-on experience with AWS, emphasizing serverless services (Lambda, SQS, EventBridge, CloudWatch, S3).
• Strong database administration experience: PostgreSQL operations, backup/recovery, and query performance.
• Proficiency in scripting languages such as TypeScript, Python, and bash for production automation and tooling.
• Strong understanding of Linux, DNS, TLS, Docker, GitHub Actions, and infrastructure as code (SST, Pulumi, or Terraform).
• Experience with production monitoring, incident response, and on-call ownership.

Responsibilities

• Own day-to-day administration across AWS services, accounts, and access, as well as database administration across PostgreSQL and other data stores.
• Own backup posture across databases, S3 buckets, and queues; verify restores regularly and maintain a tested disaster recovery plan.
• Proactively monitor production — CloudWatch dashboards, metric alarms, log-based metrics, and Slack alerting.
• Lead production debugging and incident response: build and maintain runbooks, participate in the on-call rotation, and resolve queue and dead-letter-queue failures.
• Continuously refine infrastructure to ensure it is easily deployable and scalable: keep infrastructure as code accurate, retire unused infrastructure, and keep cost visible.
• Share knowledge of production operations with the team, fostering a culture of learning and growth.

Skills

DevOps

Site Reliability

AWS

Monitoring

Incident response

Scripting

Linux

Docker

IaC

On-call

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

SST

Pulumi

Terraform

PostgreSQL

S3

CloudWatch

EventBridge

SQS

Job description

As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer on our cloud engineering team, you'll keep our production environment healthy, secure, and running smoothly. This is an operations-focused role: you'll own the day-to-day administration of our AWS accounts and databases, backup posture across our data stores, and production monitoring and debugging for a fully serverless platform. Your work will span the operational side of the software development life cycle — from deployment to maintenance and updates — always striving for continuous improvement. You'll keep our infrastructure clean, easily deployable, and scalable, creating a stable operating environment for the whole team.

Responsibilities

• Own day-to-day administration across AWS services, accounts, and access, as well as database administration across PostgreSQL and our other data stores.

• Own backup posture across databases, S3 buckets, and queues; verify restores regularly and maintain a tested disaster recovery plan.

• Proactively monitor production — CloudWatch dashboards, metric alarms, log-based metrics, and Slack alerting — addressing operational issues before they impact users.

• Lead production debugging and incident response: build and maintain runbooks, participate in the on-call rotation, and resolve queue and dead-letter-queue failures through retry, redrive, and recovery.

• Continuously refine our infrastructure to ensure it is easily deployable and scalable: keep infrastructure as code (SST/Pulumi) accurate, retire unused infrastructure, and keep cost visible and justified.

• Share your knowledge of production operations with the team, fostering a culture of learning and growth.

Qualifications: Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities

• Bachelor's degree and 4-6 years of related experience or equivalent work experience.

• 5+ years of experience in DevOps, site reliability, or platform operations, with significant responsibility for production systems.

• 3+ years of hands-on experience with AWS, with an emphasis on serverless services (Lambda, SQS, EventBridge, CloudWatch, S3).

• Strong database administration experience: PostgreSQL operations, backup and recovery, and query performance; comfort administering other data stores.

• Proficiency in scripting languages such as TypeScript, Python, and bash for production automation and operational tooling.

• Strong understanding of Linux, DNS, TLS, Docker, GitHub Actions, and infrastructure as code (SST, Pulumi, or Terraform).

• Experience with production monitoring and alerting, incident response, and on-call ownership.