Site Reliability Engineer

Compunnel, Inc.; Greenwood Village (CO); On-site; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

A technology services company in Colorado is seeking an experienced Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to focus on deploying and optimizing cloud-based applications. Candidates should have 6+ years in DevOps/SRE, expertise in AWS, and experience with monitoring tools. This role includes responsibilities such as release management, production support, and team collaboration to ensure high availability and performance.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of DevOps or SRE experience in large environments.
• Strong background in software development and debugging.
• Experience with AWS services and Terraform for infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Build and deploy application and infrastructure releases.
• Maintain 99.999% availability of critical systems.
• Implement monitoring policies and build dashboards.

Skills

DevOps experience

AWS expertise

Kubernetes

Infrastructure automation

Monitoring tools

GitLab or CI/CD tools

Education

Bachelor's degree in a related field

Tools

Datadog

Splunk

Terraform

Job description

We are seeking an experienced Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to join the Applied AI and Data Science program.

This role focuses on deploying, monitoring, and optimizing cloud-based applications and infrastructure to ensure high availability and performance.

The ideal candidate will have strong expertise in AWS, containerized microservices, infrastructure automation, and monitoring tools.

Key Responsibilities

• Release Management: Build and deploy application, service, and infrastructure releases; validate system integrity post-deployment; document release notes.
• Production Support: Maintain 99.999% availability of critical systems; monitor infrastructure and applications; perform root cause analysis for outages; respond to incidents.
• Monitoring & Alerting: Implement monitoring policies; build dashboards; track system efficiency and resource consumption; alert stakeholders for SLA deviations.
• Optimization: Manage resource scaling; optimize system performance and resource utilization.
• Team Collaboration: Assist with user support; coordinate with onshore/offshore teams; develop bug fixes; become an expert in system architecture and deployment pipelines.

Required Qualifications

• 6+ years of DevOps or SRE experience in large, complex environments.
• Strong background in software development (OOP) and ability to read/debug code.
• Expertise in AWS services (EKS, S3, DocumentDB) and Terraform for Infrastructure as Code.
• Experience with Kubernetes, containerized microservices, and cloud deployments.
• Proficiency with GitLab or similar CI/CD tools for pipeline management.
• Hands‑on experience with monitoring tools such as Datadog or Splunk.
• Bachelor’s degree in a related field or equivalent experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Familiarity with Python, Node.js, React, TypeScript, and GraphQL.
• Exposure to relational (SQL) and NoSQL databases.
• Experience with Docker, Redis, and ORM frameworks.
• Knowledge of experimentation, statistical testing, and data analysis.
• Master’s degree in a related field is a plus.