Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Fortressinfosec; Orlando (FL); Hybrid; USD 160,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote and Hybrid working environment

Medical, dental, vision plans

401(k) match

Flexible Paid Time Off

Parental Leave

Job summary

Fortress Information Security in Orlando, FL seeks a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to ensure reliability, performance, and scalability of systems across AWS and on‑prem environments. You will lead CI/CD improvements, containerization initiatives, and observability enhancements while supporting production services and incident response.

The role requires 5–8 years in SRE/DevOps, strong Kubernetes, Ansible, Jenkins, Terraform skills, and hands‑on AWS experience.

Qualifications

• 5-8 years hands‑on SRE/DevOps experience with production systems.
• Experience with Linux-based infra and AWS services (RDS, VPC, ECR, CloudWatch).
• Deployment tech: Kubernetes, Ansible, Jenkins, Terraform.
• Strong documentation and communication skills.
• Experience with rolling upgrades (canary/blue‑green).
• Willingness to participate in technical interviews (recorded).

Responsibilities

• Transition to containerized deployments in AWS and on‑prem environments.
• Enhance CI/CD pipelines and deployment strategies (Blue/Green, Canary).
• Support testing environments across development lifecycle.
• Improve infrastructure for developers and observability tooling.
• Migrate secrets to Vault and automate provisioning during deploys.
• Monitor availability, performance, and incident response.

Skills

Kubernetes

Ansible

Jenkins

Terraform

Bash

Python

AWS

CI/CD

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in IT/CS

Master’s Degree preferred

Tools

Kubernetes

Ansible

Jenkins

Terraform

Job description

Open Positions at Fortress

Position: Senior Site Reliability Engineer Location: Orlando HQ - Remote, FL

Job Id: 615 # of Openings: 1

Compensation: $160,000 - 180,000 per year, depending on experience and qualifications. Employment Type: Full-Time

What you can expect as the Senior Site Reliability Engineer at Fortress… The Senior Site Reliability Engineer is responsible for ensuring the reliability, performance, and scalability of critical systems and services across AWS and on-premises environments. This role focuses on improving deployment processes, strengthening CI/CD pipelines, increasing automation, and enhancing system monitoring and observability. The position also leads key efforts such as transitioning applications to containerized deployments, implementing advanced deployment strategies, and improving shared infrastructure for developers. Candidates in this role will support production environments, manage incident response, and contribute to continuous improvement of Fortress’ operational reliability.

Responsibilities Include

• Transition applications from traditional (non-containerized) Ansible deployments to containerized, orchestrated deployments in AWS and on-premises environments
• Build upon current CI/CD efforts to support different deployment strategies (Blue/Green, Canary, etc.)
• Support Development/QA/UAT efforts by building an environment for anyone in the company to test drive a release anywhere in the development lifecycle
• Improve common infrastructure for developers, such as CI/CD pipelines, log/application monitoring, cluster management, and configuration management
• Migrate application secrets and configuration from Ansible Vault to Hashicorp Vault
• Automate infrastructure provisioning during deployment
• Handle code deployments in all environments (cloud, on-premises)
• Implement tools to monitor and alert with respect to service level metrics and objectives
• Provide technical guidance and educate team members and coworkers on development and operations
• Monitor relevant systems for availability and performance
• Available to support daytime and after business hours release activities

Minimum Qualifications

• 5-8 years hands‑on experience in a SRE/DevOps role supporting production systems
• Production experience supporting Linux‑based infrastructure and administering services on AWS (RDS, VPC, ECR, CloudWatch, Cloud Formation, Lambda, API Gateway) and on‑premises
• Demonstrable experience with deployment technologies such as Kubernetes, Ansible, Jenkins and Terraform (or similar technologies)
• Excellent documentation skills so anyone on the team can come up‑to‑speed on changes quickly
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Experience implementing rolling upgrades (canary, blue/green, etc.)
• Strong scripting and tooling skillset (Bash, Python, JS, etc.)
• Self‑motivated, resourceful and a persistent problem‑solving aptitude with advanced time management skills
• Ability to independently use and refine prompts to enhance the quality, efficiency, and insight of regular work processes
• Must be willing to participate in technical interviews and technical questions, which may be recorded or transcribed for evaluation purposes (required)

Preferred Skills

• SOC, NERC, and other compliance standards knowledge a plus
• Presentation skills and the ability to communicate with a variety of technical and non‑technical audiences.
• Strong Linux system administration skills
• Strong scripting and tooling skillset (Bash, Python, JS, etc.)
• Adept at creating comprehensive documentation
• AWS administration

Education

• Bachelor’s Degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or a related discipline required.
• Master’s Degree in related field (preferred)

Employee Benefits

• Remote and Hybrid working environment
• Competitive pay structure
• Medical, dental, vision plans with employees covered up to 90% with highly progressive options for dependents and families
• Company paid life, short‑ and long‑term disability insurance
• Employee Assistance Program
• 401(k)match
• Flexible Paid Time Off
• Parental Leave

Employment Perks

• We provide each employee with professional growth opportunities through succession planning, up‑skilling, and certifications
• Tuition and certification reimbursement
• Employee Referral Programs
• Company Sponsored Events

Fortress is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. All employees and applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, color, disability, gender, national origin, race, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, protected veteran status, or any other classification protected by federal, state, or local law. Fortress Information Security takes part in the E‑Verify process for all new hires.

For positions located in the US, the following conditions apply. If you are made a conditional offer of employment, you will have to undergo a drug test. ADA Disclaimer: In developing this job description care was taken to include all competencies needed to successfully perform in this position. However, for Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) purposes, the essential functions of the job may or may not have been described for purposes of ADA reasonable accommodation. All reasonable accommodation requests will be reviewed and evaluated on a case‑by‑case basis.

Pay Range: $160,000 - $180,000 per year

HEADQUARTERS

250 South Orange Ave. Ste. 500 Orlando, FL 32801

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