Site Reliability Engineer

DefenseStorm, Inc.; Atlanta (GA); Remote; USD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in cybersecurity is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to ensure the reliability and performance of their cloud-based services. You will play a crucial role in building robust infrastructures, driving best practices, and optimizing uptime while adhering to security standards.

Qualifications

• 3-5 years hands-on experience in the cybersecurity field is preferred.
• Experience with AWS and container orchestration required.
• Familiarity with observability and monitoring tools.

Responsibilities

• Lead the migration of EC2 workloads to ECS.
• Design and implement proactive monitoring solutions.
• Build, manage, and scale cloud infrastructure.

Skills

CI/CD pipelines

Cloud infrastructure

Security best practices

Monitoring

Infrastructure as Code

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science

Tools

GitHub Actions

AWS

Terraform

Prometheus

Grafana

Job description

Site 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-native 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

Preferred Education and Experience

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

DefenseStorm provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.