Site Reliability Engineer

Ethereum Technologies; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Ethereum Technologies is seeking a skilled Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to manage and optimize AWS, GAIA, and GKP infrastructure in a production environment. The role covers deployment automation, monitoring, incident response, and collaboration with DevOps and platform teams to ensure high availability and performance.

The candidate will define SLIs, SLOs, and SLAs, automate infrastructure provisioning with IaC tools, and drive reliability improvements across services while focusing on

Qualifications

• Hands-on AWS infrastructure and cloud services experience.
• Experience with GAIA and GKP infrastructure.
• Knowledge of infrastructure deployment, configuration, and environment management.
• Experience with monitoring, alerting, logging, and telemetry implementation.
• Familiarity with Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch, or equivalent observability platforms.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and automated deployment tools.
• Strong troubleshooting across infrastructure, networking, and applications.
• Scripting in Python, Bash, or Shell.
• Understanding of Linux/Unix, networking, DNS, load balancing, and security fundamentals.
• Knowledge of incident management, RCA, and production support processes.
• Understanding of high availability, disaster recovery, scalability, and fault-tolerant design.

Responsibilities

• Infrastructure management: design, deploy, manage GAIA/GKP infrastructure for high availability and reliability.
• Deployments: build automated pipelines, manage releases, and handle rollbacks across environments.
• Monitoring: implement and maintain dashboards, alerts, and telemetry solutions.
• SRE practices: define SLIs, SLOs, and SLAs to improve reliability.
• Incident management: respond to incidents, diagnose issues, perform RCA, implement preventive measures.
• Automation: create scripts to reduce manual tasks and improve deployment efficiency.
• Performance & capacity: monitor utilization, identify bottlenecks, optimize capacity and costs.
• IaC: automate provisioning using Terraform, CloudFormation, or equivalents.
• Security & compliance: implement best practices, access controls, secrets management.
• Collaboration: work with development, DevOps, platform engineering, and operations teams.
• Documentation: keep runbooks, deployment procedures, architecture docs, and incident reports up to date.

Skills

AWS

GAIA

GKP

CI/CD

Python

Bash

Linux

Monitoring

Terraform

CloudWatch

Kubernetes

Docker

Incident management

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IT

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

Terraform

Prometheus

Grafana

CloudWatch

Job description

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Mandatory Skills :
We are looking for a skilled Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) with hands-on experience in AWS, GAIA, and GKP infrastructure. The candidate will be responsible for infrastructure management, deployment automation, monitoring, telemetry, reliability engineering, and production operations to ensure the availability, scalability, performance, and resilience of critical services.

Key Responsibilities:

• Infrastructure Management: Design, deploy, manage, and maintain AWS and GAIA/GKP infrastructure to ensure high availability, scalability, and reliability.
• Deployment and Release Management: Implement and maintain automated deployment pipelines, support application releases, and manage deployment rollbacks across environments.
• Monitoring and Observability: Configure and maintain monitoring, alerting, dashboards, logging, and telemetry solutions to proactively identify and resolve issues.
• Site Reliability Engineering: Define and track Service Level Indicators (SLIs), Service Level Objectives (SLOs), and Service Level Agreements (SLAs) to improve service reliability.
• Incident Management: Respond to production incidents, troubleshoot infrastructure and application issues, perform root cause analysis (RCA), and implement preventive measures.
• Automation and Tooling: Develop scripts and automation to reduce manual operational tasks and improve deployment efficiency.
• Performance and Capacity Management: Monitor resource utilization, analyze performance bottlenecks, and optimize infrastructure capacity and costs.
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Automate infrastructure provisioning and configuration using tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, or equivalent technologies.
• Security and Compliance: Implement infrastructure security best practices, access controls, secrets management, and compliance requirements.
• Collaboration: Work closely with development, DevOps, platform engineering, and operations teams to improve system reliability and operational efficiency.
• Documentation: Maintain operational runbooks, deployment procedures, architecture documentation, and incident reports.

Required Skills and Qualifications:

• Hands-on experience with AWS infrastructure and cloud services.
• Experience working with GAIA and GKP infrastructure.
• Knowledge of infrastructure deployment, configuration, and environment management.
• Experience with monitoring, alerting, logging, and telemetry implementation.
• Familiarity with tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch, or equivalent observability platforms.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and automated deployment tools.
• Strong troubleshooting skills across infrastructure, networking, and application environments.
• Proficiency in scripting languages such as Python, Bash, or Shell.
• Understanding of Linux/Unix operating systems, networking, DNS, load balancing, and security fundamentals.
• Knowledge of incident management, root cause analysis, and production support processes.
• Understanding of high availability, disaster recovery, scalability, and fault-tolerant system design.

Preferred Skills:

• Experience with Kubernetes, Docker, and container orchestration.
• Familiarity with Terraform or other Infrastructure as Code tools.
• Knowledge of distributed systems and cloud-native architecture.
• Experience with centralized logging and distributed tracing solutions.
• Understanding of SRE practices, error budgets, and reliability metrics.
• Experience with infrastructure performance optimization and cloud cost management.

Experience and Education:

• Experience: 3–8 years in SRE, DevOps, cloud infrastructure, or production operations, depending on the seniority of the role.
• Education: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

Key Success Criteria:

• Improved infrastructure availability and service reliability.
• Reduced incident frequency and mean time to recovery (MTTR).
• Reliable and repeatable deployment processes.
• Effective monitoring, alerting, and telemetry coverage.
• Increased automation and reduced manual operational effort.
• Improved infrastructure performance, scalability, and operational efficiency.

We are an equal opportunity employer. All aspects of employment including the decision to hire, promote, discipline, or discharge, will be based on merit, competence, performance, and business needs. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, marital status, age, national origin, ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition, pregnancy, genetic information, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, citizenship/ immigration status, veteran status, or any other status protected under federal, state, or local law.