Sr. Site Reliability Engineer

Blackpoint Cyber; United States; Remote; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Blackpoint Cyber is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to design, implement, and maintain our cloud and on-premise infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines, focusing on automation, scalability, and performance. You will collaborate across cloud platform administration, container orchestration, data streaming, observability, and incident response to keep systems reliable, secure, and efficient.

The role emphasizes proactive improvements in automation tooling and engineering practices, with

Qualifications

• 5+ years in a Senior SRE or equivalent role.
• Expertise in IaC using Terraform/Terragrunt.
• Proficient with AWS for secure, scalable, resilient cloud architectures.
• Experience with distributed data streaming and caching systems.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable infrastructure via Terraform/Terragrunt.
• Own and optimize AWS cloud environment for cost, security, and high availability.
• Manage Kubernetes environments (Helm, ArgoCD, Istio, Kustomize).
• Scale data streaming systems (Confluent Cloud, Kafka) for enterprise processing.
• Deploy and maintain Redis for caching and real-time data processing.
• Implement monitoring, alerting, and incident response with Prometheus, Grafana, Alert Manager, OpsGenie/ PagerDuty.
• Facilitate controlled feature deployments with LaunchDarkly.
• Partner with software teams to integrate new services into existing infrastructure.
• Diagnose and resolve complex system-level issues to maximize uptime.
• Drive continuous improvement of automation tooling and engineering practices.
• Stay current on evolving SRE trends and adopt best practices.

Skills

Cloud infrastructure

Automation & IaC

Observability & monitoring

Incident response

Tools

Terraform

Terragrunt

AWS

Confluent Cloud

Apache Kafka

Redis

Amazon RDS

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, tools 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.