Senior SRE: Cloud Infra Modernization & Automation Lead

Socket.dev; Kentucky; Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Socket.dev is seeking a Sr. Site Reliability Engineer to join a small, high-impact infra team.

You will own critical projects from design through deployment, including a pivotal modernization and hosting migration initiative in your first year. The role emphasizes automation via Terraform, Ansible, and PowerShell DSC; CI/CD with GitHub Actions and Jenkins; observability with Prometheus, Grafana, and Datadog; applying SRE principles such as SLOs and error budgets.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in SRE/DevOps with production Azure or AWS.
• Strong Linux/Unix administration and networking troubleshooting.
• Expertise in Terraform and CI/CD pipeline design.
• Scripting in Python/Go/Bash or PowerShell.

Responsibilities

• Lead modernization efforts and hosting migrations for hybrid infra.
• Automate provisioning with IaC and optimize CI/CD pipelines.
• Establish observability and incident response standards.
• Apply SRE practices including SLOs and error budgets.
• Collaborate with development and data teams to manage change.
• Ensure security, backups, and disaster recovery strategies.

Skills

SRE/DevOps

Cloud engineering

Linux/Networking

Programming/Scripting

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

Docker

Kubernetes

Datadog

Prometheus

Grafana

Job description

Socket.dev is seeking a Sr. Site Reliability Engineer to join a small, high-impact infra team.

You will own critical projects from design through deployment, including a pivotal modernization and hosting migration initiative in your first year. The role emphasizes automation via Terraform, Ansible, and PowerShell DSC; CI/CD with GitHub Actions and Jenkins; observability with Prometheus, Grafana, and Datadog; applying SRE principles such as SLOs and error budgets.