Senior Site Reliability Engineer - Hybrid Cloud & On-Prem

Socket.dev; Edina (MN); On-site; USD 112,000 - 161,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

401(k) with match

Paid time off

Job summary

Western National Insurance Group seeks a Site Reliability Engineer III to design, implement, manage, and monitor on-premise and cloud-based application platforms. You will monitor, resolve, and proactively prevent outages while partnering with product teams to improve deployment, infrastructure stability, and reliability.

The role emphasizes automation, IaC with Terraform/Helm/YAML, Kubernetes/EKS, and cloud services, with strong focus on security, performance, and collaboration across teams.

Qualifications

• Must-have: strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Must-have: able to work independently and complete assignments.
• Must-have: detail-oriented with quality focus.
• Must-have: strong organizational and prioritization abilities.
• Must-have: proven collaboration with product teams.
• Must-have: familiarity with product-team methods (e.g., Agile).
• Must-have: clear written and verbal communication across technical audiences.
• Must-have: AWS cloud services knowledge and/or certifications.

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, and maintain scalable platform infrastructure across cloud/on-premise.
• Collaborate in estimation and refinement with product teams.
• Utilize modern delivery tech to assist deployments.
• Automate processes for repeatability and efficiency.
• Perform peer reviews of designs and implementations.
• Recommend solutions to improve deployment and stability.
• Create and maintain documentation and playbooks.
• Ensure timely delivery and communicate delays or roadblocks.

Skills

Analytical skills

Independent worker

Detail-oriented

Prioritization

Cross-team collaboration

Project methodologies (agile etc.)

Clear communication

AWS certifications

Education

Bachelor’s degree / equivalent

Tools

AWS cloud services

Kubernetes / EKS

Terraform

Helm charts

YAML

CI/CD pipelines

Linux

virtualization tech

Monitoring/Alerting tools

Code versioning & deployment tools

Job description

Western National Insurance Group seeks a Site Reliability Engineer III to design, implement, manage, and monitor on-premise and cloud-based application platforms. You will monitor, resolve, and proactively prevent outages while partnering with product teams to improve deployment, infrastructure stability, and reliability.

The role emphasizes automation, IaC with Terraform/Helm/YAML, Kubernetes/EKS, and cloud services, with strong focus on security, performance, and collaboration across teams.