Senior SRE Engineer - AWS, Kubernetes & Observability

SFE; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 100,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

SFE is seeking a System Reliability Engineer (SRE) to strengthen our AWS-based infrastructure. You will build and refine monitoring dashboards (Grafana/Splunk), automate alerts, and ensure high availability of critical services.

You will analyze root causes and work with cross-functional teams to implement durable mitigations. The role requires experience with Docker/Kubernetes, CI/CD, and IaC tools such as Terraform or CloudFormation, along with strong problem-solving and communication skills.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required.
• Experience building monitoring dashboards in Grafana and Splunk.
• Proficient in proactive monitoring dashboard creation.
• Ability to automate alerts and daemon processes.
• Strong root cause analysis and communication skills.
• Experience with AWS services (Lambda, SNS, SQS).
• Familiar with deployment services, CI/CD pipelines, version control and monitoring tools.
• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes.
• Knowledge of IaC/tools (Ansible, Chef, Puppet, GitLab, Terraform, CloudFormation).
• Ensure site/app availability, performance and scalability across environments.

Responsibilities

• Identify root causes and the affected application.
• Determine if issues are due to code or configuration and locate bottlenecks.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to resolve issues.
• Troubleshoot and debug production systems.
• Demonstrate strong verbal and written communication.

Skills

Root cause analysis

Communication

Problem solving

Distributed systems

Shift work

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Grafana

Splunk

Cloud monitoring

AWS (Lambda, SNS, SQS)

Docker

Kubernetes

CI/CD

GitLab

Terraform

CloudFormation

Ansible

Job description

SFE is seeking a System Reliability Engineer (SRE) to strengthen our AWS-based infrastructure. You will build and refine monitoring dashboards (Grafana/Splunk), automate alerts, and ensure high availability of critical services.

You will analyze root causes and work with cross-functional teams to implement durable mitigations. The role requires experience with Docker/Kubernetes, CI/CD, and IaC tools such as Terraform or CloudFormation, along with strong problem-solving and communication skills.