Senior SRE: GitOps & Kubernetes Reliability (Remote)

Akuity; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Equity participation

Flexible time off

Home office stipend

Work from anywhere in US time zones

Job summary

Akuity is looking for a Senior SRE to ensure the reliability of its platform. This high-ownership role involves collaborating with engineering and infrastructure teams to build resilience into our systems.

With a focus on observability, incident response, and continuous improvement of SLI/SLO/SLA definitions, the ideal candidate will have significant experience in production operations, particularly within a SaaS environment. The position is fully remote, open to candidates in US time zones, and offers competitive compensation and equity participation.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of SRE, platform engineering, or production operations experience in a SaaS environment.
• Deep hands-on Kubernetes expertise.
• Strong AWS fundamentals across compute, networking, and storage.
• Experience defining and operating against SLOs in production.
• Proficiency with observability tooling.
• Solid scripting and automation skills in Go, Python, or Bash.
• Strong written communication.

Responsibilities

• Own SLI/SLO/SLA definitions for the Akuity SaaS platform.
• Design and maintain observability systems across AWS infrastructure.
• Identify reliability gaps and lead post-mortems.
• Participate in on-call rotation and act as incident commander.
• Build and maintain runbooks and incident playbooks.

Skills

Kubernetes expertise

AWS fundamentals

Observability tooling

Scripting and automation skills

Strong written communication

Tools

Prometheus

Grafana

OpenTelemetry

Terraform

Job description

Akuity is looking for a Senior SRE to ensure the reliability of its platform. This high-ownership role involves collaborating with engineering and infrastructure teams to build resilience into our systems.

With a focus on observability, incident response, and continuous improvement of SLI/SLO/SLA definitions, the ideal candidate will have significant experience in production operations, particularly within a SaaS environment. The position is fully remote, open to candidates in US time zones, and offers competitive compensation and equity participation.