Senior Site Reliability Engineer — Remote Infra & CI/CD

Cross River; United States; Remote; USD 160,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Cross River is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to own the reliability and performance of mission-critical systems. You will drive DevOps guardrails, CI/CD, and IaC initiatives across engineering teams to enable scalable, secure infrastructure in a fast-paced fintech environment.

The ideal candidate has 8+ years in SRE/DevOps, deep AWS experience, Terraform, Docker, and strong observability skills with tools like New Relic, ELK, Prometheus, or Grafana.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in SRE, DevOps, or Infra Engineering roles.
• 5+ years with AWS; multi-cloud is a plus.
• Terraform proficiency.
• CI/CD design, build and automation.
• Docker and container orchestration (ECS preferred).
• Observability with New Relic, ELK, CloudWatch, Prometheus, Datadog, or Grafana.
• Proficiency in .NET, PowerShell, Python, Go, or Bash.
• Linux and Windows administration.
• DNS, load balancing, CDNs, and network security.
• Strong written and verbal communication.

Responsibilities

• Define and enforce DevOps guardrails, standards, and best practices.
• Enable teams to design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines.
• Co-develop IaC with Terraform.
• Establish deployment strategies (blue/green, canary, rolling).
• Build developer self-service tooling and internal platforms.
• Shift-left reliability, security, observability.
• Define and monitor SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets.
• Maintain observability stacks with logging, metrics, tracing, and alerting.
• Lead incident response and on-call rotations.
• Capacity planning and performance engineering.
• Eliminate toil through automation.
• Conduct reliability reviews and chaos engineering.
• Manage and optimize cloud infrastructure.
• Collaborate to improve system architecture and resiliency.
• Support .NET-based services on Windows/Linux.

Skills

SRE / DevOps

AWS

IaC

CI/CD

Containers & Orchestration

Observability

Scripting / Programming

Linux & Windows

Networking

Communication

Tools

Terraform

Docker

Kubernetes / ECS

New Relic

ELK Stack

Prometheus

Grafana

CloudWatch

Datadog

GitOps

Job description

Cross River is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to own the reliability and performance of mission-critical systems. You will drive DevOps guardrails, CI/CD, and IaC initiatives across engineering teams to enable scalable, secure infrastructure in a fast-paced fintech environment.

The ideal candidate has 8+ years in SRE/DevOps, deep AWS experience, Terraform, Docker, and strong observability skills with tools like New Relic, ELK, Prometheus, or Grafana.