Senior Site Reliability Engineer – Platform & AI Infra

Fuel Talent; Renton, Northern (WA, KY); Hybrid; USD 106,000 - 143,000; Full time

Job summary

Fuel Talent is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer / Platform Engineer to design, build, and operate reliable cloud infrastructure in Renton, WA. You will enhance deployment, security, observability, and scaling of production systems, partnering across engineering, product, and security teams.

Responsibilities include Terraform-based IaC, GitOps workflows with Argo CD/Flux CD, and Kubernetes cluster management with capacity planning.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in site reliability, platform, infrastructure, or DevOps engineering.
• Strong experience with a major cloud platform and Terraform.
• 3+ years of experience administering production Kubernetes environments.
• Experience implementing GitOps or automated deployment workflows.
• Deep understanding of cloud networking and experience resolving production issues.
• Experience improving the reliability, security, and performance of distributed systems.
• Ability to explain technical tradeoffs clearly to both technical and nontechnical stakeholders.
• Experience supporting AI platforms

Responsibilities

• Design and maintain cloud infrastructure using Terraform and IaC best practices.
• Build and improve GitOps and CI/CD workflows using Argo CD or Flux CD.
• Operate Kubernetes clusters, including upgrades, node pools, autoscaling, and capacity planning.
• Design and troubleshoot cloud and Kubernetes networking, including private connectivity, ingress, and network segmentation.
• Implement workload identity and least-privilege access to reduce reliance on static credentials.
• Define service level objectives, improve observability, and lead incident reviews and root cause analysis.
• Partner with engineering, product, and security teams to make sound platform decisions.
• Mentor engineers through design reviews, code reviews, and operational guidance.

Skills

Site reliability

Observability

Incident management

Security best practices

Stakeholder communication

Mentoring

Tools

Terraform

Argo CD

Flux CD

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Job description

Fuel Talent is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer / Platform Engineer to design, build, and operate reliable cloud infrastructure in Renton, WA. You will enhance deployment, security, observability, and scaling of production systems, partnering across engineering, product, and security teams.

Responsibilities include Terraform-based IaC, GitOps workflows with Argo CD/Flux CD, and Kubernetes cluster management with capacity planning.