Site Reliability Engineer

Global Business Ser. 4u; United States; Remote; USD 100,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative company is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to lead cloud infrastructure projects and mentor junior engineers. This role emphasizes automation and the design of scalable solutions, ensuring robust performance and security in a fast-paced environment. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience with AWS, CI/CD tools, and container orchestration, contributing to a collaborative team focused on operational excellence. If you are passionate about cloud technologies and enjoy solving complex challenges, this opportunity is perfect for you.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience with AWS and cloud environments.
• Strong experience with CI/CD tools and container orchestration.

Responsibilities

• Design infrastructure solutions with a cloud-first mindset.
• Automate processes and build production infrastructure on AWS.
• Mentor team members and analyze system performance.

Skills

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

CI/CD automation tools

Kubernetes

Linux/UNIX systems administration

Scripting languages (Python, Ruby, Go, Bash)

Configuration management tools (Puppet, Chef, Salt)

Networking in cloud environments

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

Jenkins

GitLab CI/CD

New Relic

Grafana

CloudWatch

Job description

Job Title: Site Reliability Engineer

Job type: 12 months Contract

Location: Remote

Job Description:

1. Serve as a technical lead on projects with a cloud-first mindset. Design infrastructure solutions for the future.
2. Collaborate as a member of our operational review board with other senior SRE members to establish proper refinement of project initiatives, both internal and cross-team.
3. Mentor team members, providing guidance and support as the senior you needed when you were a junior engineer.
4. Automate processes to minimize human intervention.
5. Build and maintain production infrastructure hosted on AWS using code.
6. Design and develop pipelines to scale, deploy, and manage global infrastructure.
7. Analyze complex system behavior, performance, and application issues.
8. Develop observability tools, alerts, and runbooks.
9. Perform capacity analysis and planning, traffic routing, and security policy implementation for SaaS applications.
10. This role involves an on-call rotation of 8 hours, 7 days a week, following the sun model.

Minimum Qualifications:

1. 7+ years of experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS).
2. Experience provisioning large cloud environments using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as CloudFormation and Terraform.
3. Experience with CI/CD automation tools like Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD.
4. Experience with container orchestration (Kubernetes) and microservices architectures.
5. Strong experience with configuration management tools such as Puppet, Chef, or Salt.
6. Experience building pipelines using GitOps methodologies and ChatOps.
7. Experience with observability tools such as New Relic, Grafana, and CloudWatch.
8. 7+ years of experience with Linux/UNIX systems administration.
9. Knowledge of security design principles and their implementation in automation workflows.
10. Proficiency in scripting languages such as Python, Ruby, Go, or Bash.
11. Networking experience in large cloud environments.
12. Experience working in high-volume or critical production service environments.