Senior Site Reliability Engineer - Cloud Database Platform

mariadbplc; United States; Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 205,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Life insurance

Disability insurance

Professional development support

Paid time off

Retirement savings

Holidays

Parental leave

Job summary

MariaDB plc seeks an experienced SRE/DevOps engineer to build and operate a managed database platform’s infrastructure in U.S. government cloud environments.

You will bring production-grade infrastructure from a global engineering team into production, own reliability, and feed operational findings back into platform design. The role includes Kubernetes operations, cloud infrastructure, and FedRAMP-related controls.

Qualifications

• Minimum 10 years in SRE, DevOps, or infrastructure engineering with production Kubernetes operations.
• Strong Terraform and Terragrunt skills; familiarity with GitOps deployment workflows.
• Solid Linux, networking, and TLS fundamentals.
• Experience with observability systems (Prometheus) and dashboards (Grafana).
• Ability to script or develop in Go, Python, or Bash, and document operational procedures clearly.
• U.S. citizenship and U.S. residency required for access to government cloud environments.

Responsibilities

• Deploy and run Kubernetes infrastructure across AWS GovCloud and Google Cloud using infrastructure-as-code and GitOps workflows.
• Own production monitoring, alerting, capacity planning, incident response, and follow-up improvements.
• Maintain platform services such as observability, logging, secrets management, messaging, and CI/CD tooling.
• Work with security and compliance colleagues to implement hardening and federal requirements, including FedRAMP-related controls.
• Automate recurring operational tasks and contribute to the on-call rotation.
• Document procedures, incidents, and changes for reliable operations.

Skills

Terraform

Terragrunt

GitOps

Kubernetes operations

Linux

Networking

TLS

Prometheus

Grafana

Log pipelines

Go

Python

Bash

Tools

Prometheus

Grafana

Log pipelines

Job description

Role overview

Build and operate a managed database platform’s infrastructure in U.S. government cloud environments. You’ll bring infrastructure and automation developed by a global engineering team into production, own its reliability, and feed operational findings back into platform design. The work includes Kubernetes operations, cloud infrastructure, federal security requirements, and participation in an on-call rotation.

Responsibilities

• Deploy and run Kubernetes infrastructure across AWS GovCloud and Google Cloud using infrastructure-as-code and GitOps workflows.
• Own production monitoring, alerting, capacity planning, incident response, and follow-up improvements.
• Maintain platform services such as observability, logging, secrets management, messaging, and CI/CD tooling.
• Work with security and compliance colleagues to implement hardening and federal requirements, including FedRAMP-related controls.
• Automate recurring operational tasks and contribute to the on-call rotation.
• Document procedures, incidents, and changes for reliable operations.

Requirements

• At least 10 years in SRE, DevOps, or infrastructure engineering, including production Kubernetes operations.
• Strong Terraform skills; Terragrunt experience is useful, along with familiarity with GitOps deployment workflows.
• Solid Linux, networking, and TLS fundamentals.
• Experience with observability systems such as Prometheus and Grafana, and with log pipelines.
• Ability to script or develop in Go, Python, or Bash, and communicate clearly in operational documentation.
• U.S. citizenship and U.S. residency are required for access to the government cloud environment.

Benefits and work setup

U.S. remote role, with a preference for candidates near Salt Lake City for a hybrid arrangement.

Full-time salaried position; the stated U.S. base range is $150,000–$205,000, with actual pay depending on qualifications, location, and experience.

Benefits may include health, life, and disability insurance, professional development support, paid time off, retirement savings, holidays, and parental leave. Visa sponsorship and relocation are not offered.