Site Reliability Engineer

James Consultancy Services , LLC; Mountain View (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

DrumWave is seeking an experienced Site Reliability Engineer to partner with product teams and tackle our most critical infrastructure challenges. You’ll be hands-on in designing, building, and operating our cloud platform—and driving the reliability, performance, and security that empower our engineering organization.

This role requires 5+ years of production systems experience, deep AWS and Kubernetes expertise, and strong Terraform/GitHub Actions/ArgoCD skills.

Qualifications

• Have 5+ years of experience running production critical systems.
• Deep proficiency with the AWS Cloud and Cloud-Native best practices.
• Experience with Kubernetes (EKS, GKE) and Container Orchestration at scale.
• Skilled in Terraform to declaratively provision and maintain infrastructure services.
• Working knowledge of managing and debugging databases like Redis and Postgres.
• Strong familiarity with VPC, VPN, Load Balancing, and cloud networking components.
• Proficiency with Git workflows, branching strategies, and CI/CD system integrations.
• Solid understanding of web and network protocols and standards (HTTP, REST, TLS, DNS, etc...).

Responsibilities

• Automate provisioning and deployments with Terraform and CI/CD pipelines.
• Define SLIs/SLOs, manage error budgets, and build health dashboards.
• Enforce least-privilege IAM policies and automate vulnerability scans.
• Instrument services with metrics, logs, and tracing for rapid troubleshooting.
• Own on-call rotations, lead incident response, and drive post-mortems.
• Optimize cloud spend with tagging, right-sizing resources.
• Author runbooks and coach teams on DevOps, reliability, and security patterns.

Skills

5+ years experience

AWS Cloud

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Git workflows

Networking

Security concepts

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

Terraform

Kubernetes

GitHub Actions

ArgoCD

Jenkins

Python

Golang

Helm

Job description

Job Description

Job Description

Role Description

We’re seeking an experienced, highly collaborative SRE to partner with product teams

and tackle our most critical infrastructure challenges. You’ll be hands‑on in designing,

building, and operating our cloud platform—and driving the reliability, performance, and

security that empower our engineering organization.

As a Site Reliability Engineer at DrumWave, you will:

• Infrastructure as Code & CI/CD: Automate provisioning and deployments with Terraform and integrate best-practice pipelines (GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, etc.).
• Reliability Engineering: Define SLIs/SLOs, manage error budgets, and build dashboards & alerts to proactively measure and improve system health.
• Security & Compliance: Enforce least-privilege IAM policies, automate vulnerability scans, and maintain audit logging for compliance.
• Monitoring & Observability: Instrument services with metrics, logs, and distributed tracing to enable rapid troubleshooting, aid teams in alerting, custom metrics, and dashboarding.
• Incident Management: Own on-call rotations, lead real-time incident response, conduct post-mortems, and drive continuous improvements.
• Cost Optimization: Implement tagging strategies, right-size resources, and leverage concrete data to decide on optimal methods to control cloud spend at scale.
• Documentation & Mentorship: Author runbooks, standards, and best-practice guides—and coach dev teams on implementing modern DevOps, reliability, and security patterns.

Qualifications

• Have 5+ years of experience running production critical systems
• Deep proficiency with the AWS Cloud and Cloud-Native best practices
• Experience with Kubernetes (EKS, GKE) and Container Orchestration at scale
• Skilled in Terraform to declaratively provision and maintain infrastructure services
• Working knowledge of managing and debugging databases like Redis and PostgresStrong familiarity with VPC, VPN, Load Balancing, and cloud networking components
• Proficiency with Git workflows, branching strategies, and CI/CD system integrations
• Solid understanding of web and network protocols and standards (HTTP, REST, TLS, DNS, etc...)

Nice to Have’s:

• Bachelor's degree, or equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• Experience with ArgoCD, Github Actions, Jenkins, or other CI/CD pipeline solutions
• Working knowledge of Python, Golang, and Helm templating languages
• Node.js experience a plus, including running scalable, resilient Node microservices
• Grasp of foundational security best practices for cloud infrastructure
• Awareness of Terragrunt, managing Terraform state, and optimal project structure
• Seasoned in production readiness fundamentals amidst a fast moving team

Industry

• Technology, Information and Internet