Senior Site Reliability Engineer - Remote

Vida Health; United States; Remote; USD 175,000 - 185,000; Full time

Job summary

Vida Health is hiring a Site Reliability Engineer to join our fully remote Enablement Team. You’ll modernize and scale infrastructure, own production systems, and collaborate with engineering across multiple squads.

Key focus areas include Terraform, GKE, Cloud SQL, Datadog, Python, and GitHub Actions, with emphasis on observability, reliability, and security for our January enterprise launches. We are seeking an experienced engineer who can drive reliability and efficiency across a growing

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or higher in a related field.
• 5+ years of SRE/DevOps experience with production ownership.
• Deep Terraform experience across environments.
• Strong GCP skills: GKE, Cloud SQL, IAM, networking, load balancing, and cost management.
• Production Kubernetes experience with autoscaling and resource management.
• Experience building monitoring with Datadog or Cloud Monitoring.
• Proficiency in Python for tooling and automation.
• Ability to explain infrastructure decisions to non-specialists.
• Comfortable working across multiple teams.

Responsibilities

• Consolidate Terraform into a clean, well-documented structure with conventions for state, modules, code review, and CI checks.
• Normalize environments; improve build/deploy automation in GitHub Actions; add drift detection and alerting.
• Apply overdue patches and upgrades across Cloud SQL databases and runtimes.
• Right-size compute and database workloads for growth; optimize connection pooling and scaling.
• Evaluate Kubernetes architecture; consider multi-cluster setup.
• Improve monitoring and observability with Datadog and Cloud Monitoring.
• Design observability access for contractors while protecting PHI.
• Retire legacy infrastructure and tooling.
• Build repeatable runbooks, on-call rotation, escalation docs.
• Support infrastructure readiness for January 1 enterprise launches.
• Additional responsibilities as needed.

Skills

SRE ownership

DevOps

Production systems

Terraform expertise

GCP expertise

Kubernetes

Monitoring & observability

Python scripting

Cross-team communication

Cloud cost management

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Terraform

GKE

Cloud SQL

MySQL

PostgreSQL

IAM

Networking & load balancing

Datadog

Cloud Monitoring

Python

GitHub Actions

Django

Airflow

Job description

Vida Health is hiring a Site Reliability Engineer to join our fully remote Enablement Team. You’ll modernize and scale infrastructure, own production systems, and collaborate with engineering across multiple squads.

Key focus areas include Terraform, GKE, Cloud SQL, Datadog, Python, and GitHub Actions, with emphasis on observability, reliability, and security for our January enterprise launches. We are seeking an experienced engineer who can drive reliability and efficiency across a growing