Senior Site Reliability Engineer: AI Infra & Cloud Scale

Devopsroles; Santa Clara (CA); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

d-Matrix is seeking a senior SRE to own the reliability and performance of our colo, on‑premises lab, and cloud environments in Santa Clara. You will automate provisioning, monitor health, and drive incident response across hardware and software layers.

You will lead capacity planning, manage hardware lifecycles, and implement scalable IaC using Terraform and Ansible. Strong Linux, Kubernetes, and observability expertise are essential for success.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related field; 7+ years in SRE, infrastructure engineering, or systems administration.
• Strong Linux systems knowledge with hands-on colo or on‑premises server infrastructure, networking, storage, and hardware provisioning.
• Production IaC experience with Terraform and/or Ansible — writing and maintaining configurations, not just running existing playbooks.
• Kubernetes operational experience: cluster troubleshooting, workload management, storage, and networking.
• Experience with observability tooling — Prometheus/Grafana, DataDog, Splunk — including dashboards and alert rules.
• Production-quality Python and/or Bash scripting, with incident response experience.

Responsibilities

• Own reliability and availability across colo server fleets, on-premises lab clusters, cloud environments (AWS, Azure, GCP).
• Perform hands-on infrastructure work from bare metal through auto-scaling Kubernetes environments.
• Lead capacity planning and hardware lifecycle management; track cloud spend for FinOps decisions.
• Drive provisioning, deployment, and changes via Terraform and/or Ansible; contribute to IaC modules.
• Build and document automation to reduce toil; implement host lifecycle management and auto-remediation.
• Design and maintain monitoring and SLIs with Prometheus, Grafana, DataDog, Splunk.
• Participate in on-call rotation; triage incidents and produce high-quality RCAs.
• Support platform services for internal teams and external customers, ensuring QoS and uptime.

Skills

SRE experience

Kubernetes ops

IaC scripting

Incident response

Observability

Python/Bash

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in CS/EE

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Kubernetes

Prometheus/Grafana

DataDog

Splunk

Job description

d-Matrix is seeking a senior SRE to own the reliability and performance of our colo, on‑premises lab, and cloud environments in Santa Clara. You will automate provisioning, monitor health, and drive incident response across hardware and software layers.

You will lead capacity planning, manage hardware lifecycles, and implement scalable IaC using Terraform and Ansible. Strong Linux, Kubernetes, and observability expertise are essential for success.