Site Reliability Engineer

Energy Innovation Corp; Frankfort (KY); Hybrid; USD 77,000 - 108,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Mentorship

Benefits

Flexible remote hours

Job summary

KKR is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to own outcomes and accelerate our product roadmap from the Frankfort, KY office, with a remote-friendly approach that respects the life you have in Kentucky.

In this mid-level role you will work hands-on across Go, CI/CD, microservices, and Kubernetes, mentor peers, drive incident postmortems, and build internal tooling to boost developer productivity while offering flexible remote hours.

Qualifications

• Hands-on engineering across Go, CI/CD, microservices and Kubernetes.
• Mentor peers and drive incident postmortems to prevent recurrence.
• Delivery-focused mindset with ownership of outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Ship the Go boldly-pragmatic rewrite that pays down years of KKR technical debt.
• Wrangle CI/CD config across environments so Frankfort staging mirrors production.
• Refine and maintain microservices that support KKR customers in Frankfort, KY.
• Drive the Kubernetes incident postmortem that stops the Frankfort outage from recurring.
• Build internal tooling that improves developer productivity and velocity.
• Wire CI/CD APIs to Packer consumers so data lands where Frankfort teams expect it.

Skills

Go

CI/CD

Kubernetes

Microservices

Packer

Tools

CI/CD tooling

Packer

Kubernetes

Job description

KKR is looking for a $77,000 - $108,000 Site Reliability Engineer to join our Frankfort, KY office and accelerate our product roadmap. The right deeply-bought-in candidate will own outcomes, mentor peers, and earn $77,000 - $108,000 in this mid-level remote position.

Key Responsibilities

• Ship the Go boldly-pragmatic rewrite that pays down years of KKR technical debt
• Wrangle CI/CD config across environments so Frankfort staging mirrors production
• Refine and maintain microservices that support KKR customers in Frankfort, KY
• Drive the Kubernetes incident postmortem that stops the Frankfort outage from recurring
• Build internal tooling that improves developer productivity and velocity
• Wire CI/CD APIs to Packer consumers so data lands where Frankfort teams expect it

What You'll Bring

• An eye for the purpose-led detail that separates fine from finished
• A collaborative mindset and genuine enthusiasm for teamwork
• Comfort navigating ambiguity when the brief arrives half-written
• Strong rapport-building skills and a genuinely positive presence

For technology teams who's been burned before, KKR is the purpose-soaked Frankfort, KY partner that finally keeps its promises. Ownership at KKR means you fix the broken thing even when nobody assigned it to you.

The whole offer in one line: $77,000 - $108,000, mentorship, benefits, and flexible remote hours that respect the life you have in KY.