Sr. Site Reliability Engineer

Blackpoint Cyber; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401k plan

Discretionary Time Off

Job summary

Blackpoint Cyber seeks a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to design, implement, and maintain cloud and on‑prem infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and automation. You will work across AWS, Kubernetes, data streaming, and observability to keep systems reliable, secure, and scalable, partnering with engineering teams to drive reliability and performance.

The role emphasizes infrastructure as code, cost awareness, incident response, and continuous improvement, with opportunities to influence

Qualifications

• 5+ years in a Senior Site Reliability Engineer role with cloud infra and automation.
• Terraform and Terragrunt for enterprise-scale deployments.
• Hands-on AWS design, security, scalability, and reliability.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable infrastructure using IaC for automated cloud provisioning.
• Own and optimize AWS cloud environment for cost, security, and high availability.
• Manage Kubernetes clusters (Helm, ArgoCD, Istio, Kustomize) to support CD and IaC practices.
• Administer and scale data streaming (Confluent Cloud, Apache Kafka) for enterprise data processing.
• Deploy, configure, and maintain Redis for caching and real‑time processing.
• Implement monitoring/alerting (Prometheus, Grafana, Alert Manager) for reliability.
• Enable controlled feature deployments with LaunchDarkly/PostHog.
• Collaborate with development teams to integrate new services into existing infra.
• Diagnose and resolve production issues to maximize uptime.
• Drive automation tooling and engineering processes for scalability and reliability.
• Stay current on SRE trends and best practices.

Skills

Cloud infrastructure management

Automation

Problem solving

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Terraform

Terragrunt

AWS

Kubernetes

Kafka

OpenSearch

Elasticsearch

Redis

RDS

Prometheus

Grafana

LaunchDarkly

PostHog

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

Node.js

Python

Go

Job description

Blackpoint Cyber is the leading provider of world-class cybersecurity threat hunting, detection and remediation technology. Founded by former National Security Agency (NSA) cyber operations experts who applied their learningsto bring national security-grade technology solutions to commercial customers around the world, Blackpoint Cyber is in hyper-growth mode, fueled by a recent $190m series C round.

SUMMARY

We're hiring a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to design, implement, and maintain our cloud and on-premise infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines, with a focus on automation, scalability, and performance. You'll work across cloud platform administration, container orchestration, data streaming, observability, and incident response — partnering with engineering teams to keep our systems reliable, secure, and efficient, and helping foster a culture of continuous improvement.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Design, develop, and maintain highly scalable infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (Terraform and Terragrunt) for automated cloud resource provisioning and orchestration.

• Own and optimize our AWS cloud environment, ensuring cost efficiency, security best practices, and high-availability standards.

• Manage and optimize Kubernetes cluster environments (Helm, ArgoCD, Istio, Kustomize) to support continuous delivery and infrastructure-as-code practices.

• Administer and scale data streaming infrastructure (Confluent Cloud, Apache Kafka) to support enterprise-level data processing.

• Deploy, configure, and maintain Redis for caching and real-time data processing.

• Implement and maintain monitoring, alerting, and incident response frameworks (Prometheus, Grafana, Alert Manager, Grafana Cloud OpsGenie/PagerDuty) to ensure system reliability and performance.

• Facilitate controlled feature deployments and progressive rollouts through LaunchDarkly/PostHog.

• Partner with software development teams to ensure seamless integration of new services, applications, and features into existing infrastructure.

• Diagnose and resolve complex system-level issues, implementing solutions that maintain high performance and maximize uptime.

• Drive continuous improvement of automation tooling, operational processes, and engineering methodologies to enhance scalability, reliability, and maintainability.

• Stay current on emerging SRE trends and tools, andtools and help the team adopt relevant industry advancements and best practices.

REQUIREMENTS

• 5+ years of experience in a Senior Site Reliability Engineer role or equivalent, with substantial emphasis on cloud infrastructure management and automation.
• Expertise in Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Terragrunt) for enterprise-scale deployments.
• Comprehensive knowledge of AWS, including designing, implementing, and maintaining secure, scalable, resilient cloud architectures.
• Extensive hands-on experience with distributed data streaming (Confluent Cloud, Apache Kafka).
• Proven experience with Redis for caching and Amazon RDS for relational database management.
• Experience with enterprise search and analytics platforms (OpenSearch, Elasticsearch, ChaosSearch).
• Proficiency designing and implementing monitoring/alerting infrastructure (Prometheus, Grafana, Alert Manager, Grafana Cloud, OpsGenie/PagerDuty).
• Practical experience with feature flag systems (LaunchDarkly/PostHog) for controlled release management.
• Extensive experience administering production-grade Kubernetes (Helm, ArgoCD, Istio); working knowledge of Kustomize.
• Strong problem-solving skills, with the ability to troubleshoot complex systems in production.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, with experience working in Agile environments.

NICE TO HAVE

• Experience with Terragrunt to manage Terraform across multiple environments.
• Extensive hands-on experience with distributed data streaming (Kafka).
• Multi-cloud experience (Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft Azure).
• Understanding of security frameworks and compliance standards for cloud-native/containerized environments.
• Serverless computing and CI/CD pipeline experience (Jenkins, GitHub Actions).
• Software development proficiency in Node.js, Python, and/or Go.

Blackpoint Cyber welcomes and encourages applications from qualified individuals of all races, colors, religions, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, marital status, or any other legally protected status. We are committed to equality of opportunity in all aspects of employment.

For eligible employees in the US, Blackpoint offers competitive Health, Vision, Dental, and Life Insurance plans, a robust 401k plan, Discretionary Time Off, and other minor perks. International employees receive competitive benefits in accordance with local market standards and applicable country requirements.

Blackpoint believes all employees should share in the company’s success – equity participation is available to employees globally, with program details varying by location and employment structure.