Site Reliability Engineer (GKE) - Draper, UT

Wasatch Property Management, Inc.; Draper (UT); On-site; USD 112,500 - 137,500; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage

401(k) with company match

3-5 weeks PTO annually based on tenure

Paid company holidays

Job summary

Wasatch Property Management, Inc. is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer in Draper, UT, responsible for cloud infrastructure management and automation. The ideal candidate should have strong experience with AWS or GCP, container orchestration, and scripting in Python or Go.

This role requires collaborating with cross-functional teams to optimize performance and incident response while ensuring the reliability of the platform. The position offers a competitive salary starting at $125,000 and comprehensive benefits.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in an SRE, DevOps, or Infrastructure Engineering role.
• Strong programming proficiency in languages for automation and internal tooling.
• Solid fundamentals in Linux/Unix administration and networking protocols.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain scalable and secure multi-tenant cloud infrastructure.
• Own the availability, latency, performance, and capacity planning of the platform.
• Develop and manage robust monitoring, logging, and alerting systems.

Skills

Automation prioritization

Problem-solving mindset

Deep hands-on experience with cloud providers

Proficiency in Python, Go, TypeScript, or Bash

Strong understanding of cloud security best practices

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or related fields

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Prometheus

Grafana

Job description

## Site Reliability Engineer (GKE) - Draper, UTApplylocations: PDKtime type: Full timeposted on: Posted Yesterdayjob requisition id: R21395**Role Overview**We are seeking a hands-onSite Reliability Engineer to join our team. You will bridge the gap between software development and infrastructure operations, treating operational challenges as engineering problems. By leveraging automation, designing resilient distributed systems, and championing observability, you will ensure that our customers can secure and manage their access control systems without friction or failure. **Key Responsibilities*** **Infrastructure & Automation:** Design, build, and maintain scalable, secure multi-tenant cloud infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) principles.* **Uptime & Reliability:** Own the availability, latency, performance, and capacity planning of the pdk.io platform and its supporting backend microservices.* **Observability:** Develop and manage robust monitoring, logging, and alerting systems to gain deep visibility into cloud infrastructure, API health, and IoT endpoint performance.* **Incident Response:** Participate in a collaborative on-call rotation. Lead rapid incident response mitigation and drive rigorous, blameless post-mortems to ensure long-term system resilience.* **CI/CD Pipeline Management:** Optimize and secure automated deployment pipelines to enable developers to ship code to production safely and efficiently.* **Cross-Functional Collaboration:** Partner closely with backend developers and hardware engineering teams to define Service Level Indicators (SLIs), Service Level Objectives (SLOs), and manage error budgets.* Contribute to technical documentation and knowledge sharing**Tooling*** CI automation with GitHub Actions and Argo Workflows* IaC with OpenTofu & Terragrunt at the core* GitOps continuous delivery using ArgoCD* Observability stack powered by Prometheus and Grafana**Required Qualifications*** Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related fields or equivalent experience* 3+ years of experience in an SRE, DevOps, or Infrastructure Engineering role supporting production cloud environments* **Cloud Architecture:** Deep hands-on experience with major cloud providers (AWS or GCP) and a strong command of containerization and orchestration technologies (**Docker** and **Kubernetes**).* **Coding & Scripting:** Strong programming proficiency in languages such as **Python**, **Go**, **TypeScript**, or **Bash** for automation, internal tooling, and system integrations.* **Systems & Networking:** Solid fundamentals in Linux/Unix administration, networking protocols (TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP/S, load balancing), and cloud security best practices.* **Mindset:** A passionate problem-solver who prioritizes automation over manual operations and thrives in high-ownership environments.* Must pass drug and criminal background check* Work well in an onsite team environment**Preferred Qualifications*** Experience with **multi-region deployments**, failover strategies, and data consistency* **Messaging Systems:** Experience managing high-throughput message queues or data streaming platforms, specifically **RabbitMQ** or Apache Kafka.* Experience operating production systems at scale* **Data Infrastructure:** Familiarity with modern data stack environments, such as Snowflake or relational databases in a self hosted environment.* **Certifications:** Relevant industry certifications such as Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) or AWS Certified DevOps Engineer Professional.* Familiarity with regulatory requirements (SOC2, GDPR, etc)**Nice to Have*** Experience in physical security or access control systems* Familiarity with GCP ecosystem and tooling* Experience working in a scaling startup environmentCompensation & Benefits* Competitive salary starting at $125,000 depending on experience* Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage* 401(k) with company match* 3-5 weeks PTO annually based on tenure* Paid company holidays**Work Location**This position is an in-office, non-remote role, working from ProdataKey Headquarters located in Draper, Utah.