Senior Site Reliability Engineer - Cloud, Kubernetes & Edge

Apex Systems; Louisville (KY); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Apex Systems is seeking an experienced Senior Site Reliability Engineer to own reliability and automation across cloud and edge-based restaurant technology deployments in Louisville, KY. You will lead SRE practices, design scalable infrastructure, and collaborate with security and DevOps teams to raise operational excellence.

The role emphasizes hands-on engineering, incident reviews, and governance of cloud architectures with a focus on edge systems and MDM platforms.

Qualifications

• 6+ years in IT infrastructure, with 3+ years focused on site reliability engineering, cloud architecture, or platform engineering.
• Hands-on experience with AWS services (e.g., VPC, EC2, ECS, EKS, Fargate, Lambda, IAM, RDS, S3).
• Working experience with Microsoft Azure.
• Strong expertise in Kubernetes and container orchestration, including edge or distributed deployments.
• Experience with GitLab CI/CD and CI/CD pipeline design.
• Solid experience with Terraform for infrastructure provisioning.
• Experience with enterprise networking, including switch configuration, VLANs, and network troubleshooting.
• Familiarity with Mobile Device Management (MDM) platforms.
• Experience with automation and scripting (Python, Bash, Go, or equivalent).
• Proven ability to build internal tooling and API integrations.
• Experience defining and operating against SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets.
• Comfortable working in Linux command-line environments.

Responsibilities

• Define and maintain Service Level Indicators (SLIs), Service Level Objectives (SLOs), and error budgets to balance reliability with velocity.
• Design, build, and maintain monitoring, alerting, and observability platforms that provide meaningful signals.
• Lead blameless post-incident reviews, drive root cause analysis, and ensure permanent corrective actions are implemented.
• Design, implement, and support secure, scalable, and highly available cloud solutions primarily within AWS, with working knowledge of Azure.
• Architect and manage containerized workloads using Kubernetes, including both cloud and edge-based deployments.
• Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform.
• Build and optimize CI/CD pipelines using GitLab CI/CD and modern DevOps practices.
• Develop automation solutions, internal tools, and middleware integrations to eliminate repetitive operational work.
• Design and support Kubernetes-based edge systems deployed in restaurant locations.
• Manage and optimize Mobile Device Management (MDM) platforms.
• Establish and enforce cloud governance, security policies, and architectural standards.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to engineering teams.

Skills

Kubernetes

Cloud architecture

SRE practices

Observability

Edge deployments

Linux

Automation

Security

Tools

Terraform

GitLab CI/CD

Python

Bash

Go

Job description

Apex Systems is seeking an experienced Senior Site Reliability Engineer to own reliability and automation across cloud and edge-based restaurant technology deployments in Louisville, KY. You will lead SRE practices, design scalable infrastructure, and collaborate with security and DevOps teams to raise operational excellence.

The role emphasizes hands-on engineering, incident reviews, and governance of cloud architectures with a focus on edge systems and MDM platforms.