Senior Site Reliability Engineer - Portland HQ

VETRO FiberMap, Inc.; Portland (ME); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401K match

Remote work stipend

Learning & Development fund

Flexible vacation and PTO

Job summary

VETRO FiberMap, Inc. in Portland, ME is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to scale our GIS fiber management platform in a hybrid role. You will own reliability, observability, and cloud infrastructure, collaborating across engineering, product, and security teams to deliver scalable services.

You bring 5+ years in SRE/DevOps, strong Terraform and AWS experience, and a passion for AI-enabled automation to reduce toil while improving performance and resilience for large datasets.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or significant professional experience in CS, engineering, math, or GIS
• 5+ years of experience in SRE/DevOps/Platform Engineering/Cloud Infrastructure
• Experience provisioning, deploying, and supporting highly available cloud infrastructure on AWS or similar
• Strong monitoring, logging, observability, and incident management skills
• Troubleshooting complex distributed systems across applications, databases, networks, and infrastructure
• Scripting with Python and Bash; familiarity with PostgreSQL/PostGIS
• Security/compliance experience such as SOC 2

Responsibilities

• Establish and improve SLIs/SLOs, monitoring, alerting, and platform health
• Build, operate, and optimize scalable cloud infrastructure using IaC and modern deployment practices
• Ensure observability of performance, failures, dependencies, and customer impact
• Improve detection, response, root-cause analysis, postmortems, and on-call processes
• Automate deployments, remediation, infrastructure management, and capacity planning
• Identify bottlenecks and improve performance of application, database, infrastructure, and network
• Develop platform tools to empower engineers; improve CI/CD, environments, tooling, and self-service
• Apply security best practices; assist with access controls, backups, disaster recovery, and SOC 2 audits
• Use AI and automation to accelerate troubleshooting and incident analysis
• Monitor cloud utilization and control costs

Skills

SRE/DevOps

Cloud Infrastructure

Monitoring & Observability

Incident Management

Automation

Python

Bash

Terraform

Linux Administration

SOC 2 / Security

Education

CS/Engineering/Geospatial degree or equivalent

Tools

AWS

PostGIS

Node.js

Golang

Terraform

Job description

Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Company Overview:

At VETRO, we believe visualizing data unlocks hidden potential, radically simplifying business operations and digitizing the future of connectivity. We focus on empowering network operators with clarity and control over their fiber networks, enabling them to operate more efficiently. Our platform serves as the physical network asset system of record, offering visibility and control from strategic planning to daily operations. We empower our customers to bridge the digital divide, unlock new opportunities, and maximize the value of their networks.

Let's collaborate to shape the future of connectivity.

Location: Portland, ME HQ as Hybrid

Position Overview:

Reporting to the Senior Manager of Operations, the Senior Site Reliability Engineer will be responsible for scaling the global VETRO FiberMap platform in order to deliver the next generation of GIS fiber management software.

Key Responsibilities, including but not limited to:

• Reliability & Availability: Establish and improve SLIs/SLOs, monitoring, alerting, and platform health.
• Cloud Infrastructure: Build, operate, and optimize scalable cloud infrastructure using infrastructure-as-code and modern deployment practices.
• Observability: Ensure we can quickly understand platform performance, failures, dependencies, and customer impact.
• Incident Management: Improve detection, response, root-cause analysis, postmortems, and prevention of recurring incidents. Help mature production on-call procedures and participate in off-hours support rotations.
• Automation: Automate deployments, remediation, infrastructure management, capacity planning, and repetitive operational work.
• Performance & Scale: Contribute to the scaling and development of the VETRO FiberMap platform using modern cloud infrastructure tools and architectures.
  • Identify bottlenecks and improve application, database, infrastructure, and network performance as customer usage grows.
  • Optimize the performance of large datasets running on top of tools such as Postgres, NATS, mapping and tile services, and more.
• Developer Enablement: Design and develop platform tools to empower software engineers to integrate and deliver software solutions with high quality and frequency. Improve CI/CD, deployment safety, environments, tooling, and developer self-service.
• Security & Resilience: Apply security best practices to all aspects of the infrastructure. Partner with Engineering and Security Consultant on access controls, vulnerability management, disaster recovery, backups, and business continuity. Gather evidence for security audits such as SOC 2.
• AI-Enabled Operations: Use AI and intelligent automation to accelerate troubleshooting, analyze logs and incidents, identify patterns, improve documentation, and reduce operational toil.
• Cost Efficiency: Monitor cloud utilization and help ensure infrastructure spend scales efficiently with the business.

Qualifications:

• A degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Geographic Information Science, or significant professional experience
• 5+ years of experience in SRE, DevOps, Platform Engineering, Cloud Infrastructure, or a similar role
• Demonstrable expertise in:
  • Provisioning, deploying, and supporting highly available cloud-based infrastructure on AWS or similar platforms.
  • Applying DevOps and CI/CD practices in an Agile Development-based software development life cycle
  • Strong understanding of monitoring, logging, observability, and incident management
  • Troubleshooting complex distributed systems across applications, databases, networks, and infrastructure
  • Strong scripting or Agile software engineering skills
    • Proficient with scripting languages such as Python and Bash.
    • Experience working with spatial data and relational databases (PostgreSQL, PostGIS)
  • Data and systems security, and compliance frameworks such as SOC 2
• Strong problem solving skills and the ability to break down complex issues
• Comfortable working in a growth-stage environment where priorities evolve quickly
• Ability to thrive in a collaborative, positive, and supportive environment, and contribute to our culture of learning; enthusiasm to work on new things and a readiness to jump in and contribute.
• Strong ownership mindset and ability to work across Engineering, Product, Security, and Customer teams
• Experience improving reliability through engineering rather than simply adding operational process
• Interest in using AI and automation to fundamentally improve how reliability engineering gets done
• What skills are helpful:
  • A solid understanding of Terraform and infrastructure as code best practice
  • Linux based system administration
  • A familiarity with or interest in Node.js and Golang
  • A devotion to keeping up with and implementing security best practices and processes

Benefits:

• Competitive salary commensurate with experience.
  • Expected Range: $140,000-$160,000 USD
• Comprehensive benefits package, including health insurance, retirement plans with 401K match, remote work stipend, Learning & Development fund, and flexible vacation and PTO.
• Professional development opportunities and career growth within an innovative and rapidly growing company.

Work Environment:

• This role will work in our Portland, ME HQ in a hybrid capacity.
• In a hybrid role you are expected to have a designated space that is conducive to productivity and conducting confidential video calls. VETRO will assist with technology needed to set up your home office, as well as offer a semi-monthly internet stipend. While working remotely, you are expected to be distraction-free from non-work responsibilities during working hours.

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VETRO is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ethnicity, ancestry, national origin, nationality, immigration status, citizenship, religion or religious creed (or belief, where acceptable), sex/gender, sexual orientation, gender identity and gender expression, pregnancy, marital status, age, citizenship, marital status, handicap or disability, genetic information or characteristics (or those of a family member), Veteran or military status, political belief, or socio-economic status. VETRO does not discriminate against individuals on the basis of those characteristics, or any other characteristic protected by law.

VETRO values a diverse workforce and emphasizes an open, inclusive, supportive team working environment.