Senior SRE: Cloud, Security & Observability

James Consultancy Services , LLC; Mountain View (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

DrumWave is seeking an experienced Site Reliability Engineer to partner with product teams and tackle our most critical infrastructure challenges. You’ll be hands-on in designing, building, and operating our cloud platform—and driving the reliability, performance, and security that empower our engineering organization.

This role requires 5+ years of production systems experience, deep AWS and Kubernetes expertise, and strong Terraform/GitHub Actions/ArgoCD skills.

Qualifications

• Have 5+ years of experience running production critical systems.
• Deep proficiency with the AWS Cloud and Cloud-Native best practices.
• Experience with Kubernetes (EKS, GKE) and Container Orchestration at scale.
• Skilled in Terraform to declaratively provision and maintain infrastructure services.
• Working knowledge of managing and debugging databases like Redis and Postgres.
• Strong familiarity with VPC, VPN, Load Balancing, and cloud networking components.
• Proficiency with Git workflows, branching strategies, and CI/CD system integrations.
• Solid understanding of web and network protocols and standards (HTTP, REST, TLS, DNS, etc...).

Responsibilities

• Automate provisioning and deployments with Terraform and CI/CD pipelines.
• Define SLIs/SLOs, manage error budgets, and build health dashboards.
• Enforce least-privilege IAM policies and automate vulnerability scans.
• Instrument services with metrics, logs, and tracing for rapid troubleshooting.
• Own on-call rotations, lead incident response, and drive post-mortems.
• Optimize cloud spend with tagging, right-sizing resources.
• Author runbooks and coach teams on DevOps, reliability, and security patterns.

Skills

5+ years experience

AWS Cloud

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Git workflows

Networking

Security concepts

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

Terraform

Kubernetes

GitHub Actions

ArgoCD

Jenkins

Python

Golang

Helm

Job description

DrumWave is seeking an experienced Site Reliability Engineer to partner with product teams and tackle our most critical infrastructure challenges. You’ll be hands-on in designing, building, and operating our cloud platform—and driving the reliability, performance, and security that empower our engineering organization.

This role requires 5+ years of production systems experience, deep AWS and Kubernetes expertise, and strong Terraform/GitHub Actions/ArgoCD skills.