Site Reliability Engineer

ZipRecruiter; Alpharetta (GA); Remote; USD 100,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading company as a Site Reliability Engineer, playing a critical role in ensuring the reliability and scalability of cloud-based services. You will leverage your expertise to enhance security and performance, manage AWS infrastructures, and lead migrations while guiding teams in best practices for DevOps tooling and cloud operations. Ideal candidates will have a solid background in cybersecurity, CI/CD, and containerization technologies.

Qualifications

• 3-5 years of hands-on experience in the cybersecurity field.
• Experience running and supporting containerized workloads in production environments.
• Familiarity with observability and logging tools to ensure system performance.

Responsibilities

• Lead the migration of EC2 workloads to ECS and develop DevOps tooling.
• Design proactive monitoring solutions using Prometheus and Grafana.
• Uphold SLAs and SLOs by applying SRE best practices.

Skills

CI/CD

Networking principles

Cloud infrastructure management

DevOps tooling

Containerization

Monitoring tools

Infrastructure as Code

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science

Equivalent work experience in cybersecurity

Tools

GitHub Actions

AWS

Terraform

ECS

PostgreSQL

Prometheus

Grafana

Job description

Job DescriptionJob DescriptionSite Reliability Engineer

As a Site Reliability Engineer at DefenseStorm you will be playing a crucial role in ensuring the reliability, scalability, and performance of our cloud-based services. GRID is a high-throughput, data intensive application that currently handles 250k events/sec. You will drive best practices and contribute to both the design and implementation of robust cloud infrastructures that can scale rapidly to support the growing customer base of DefenseStorm.

Location
Atlanta, GA
Remote

Job Duties and Responsibilities

• Lead the migration of EC2 workloads to ECS and develop DevOps tooling to empower development teams to build and manage containerized applications.
• Advance zero trust security initiatives by implementing a service mesh architecture with technologies such as Istio.
• Enhance the security, scalability, and reliability of AWS cloud- infrastructure through continuous improvement and innovation.
• Design and implement proactive monitoring and alerting solutions using tools like Prometheus, Grafana, and OpsGenie, leveraging data-driven insights to optimize uptime and mitigate operational risks.
• Uphold SLAs and SLOs by applying SRE best practices, including incident response, post-mortem analysis, and the creation of operational playbooks.
• Build, manage, and scale cloud infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as Terraform.
• Support SOC 2 and ISO compliance efforts by championing security best practices, streamlining evidence collection, and introducing automation to improve audit processes.
• Other duties as assigned by management

Required Education and Experience

• Hands-on experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using tools such as GitHub Actions.
• Strong understanding of networking principles and their application in cloud and containerized environments.
• Proven experience designing, building, and managing cloud infrastructure in AWS.
• Expertise with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and deployment automation tools to streamline environment provisioning and management.
• Experience running and supporting containerized workloads in production environments.
• Familiarity with observability, monitoring, logging, and tracing tools to ensure system performance, reliability, and visibility.
• Experience using AWS, ECS, Elasticsearch, PostgreSQL, Prometheus, Grafana, GitHub Actions, Terraform

Education and Experience

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent work experience
• 3-5 years of hands-on experience in the cybersecurity field

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