Sr Site Reliability Engineer -Remote US

SitusAMC; Montgomery (AL); Remote; USD 95,000 - 135,000; Full time

Job summary

SitusAMC is seeking a seasoned DevOps Engineer to drive cloud initiatives as products move to AWS. You will partner with Development, Business and Platform teams to provide reliable, scalable cloud services and enhance automation across CI/CD pipelines.

The role emphasizes operational excellence, observability, and secure deployments, with experience in Kubernetes, Terraform, and Azure DevOps. Remote-friendly with flexible hours and ongoing learning.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• 5+ years of industry experience, typically with 1+ years in an Associate level role or external equivalent.
• 70% Ops / 30% Development DevOps mix.
• Strong experience with containerization, Kubernetes, EKS, CI/CD pipelines using GitOps (ArgoCD/FluxCD).
• Experience with Git for version control, Azure DevOps preferred.
• Experience with monitoring tools (CloudWatch) and incident escalation.
• Implement best practices for configuring, tuning, securing APIs/microservices.
• Proficiency with HTTP concepts and protocols.
• Strong scripting and automation skills (Python, Bash, PowerShell).
• Experience with Terraform and IaC best practices.
• Experience with AWS services (EC2, AMIs, Elastic Beanstalk, Load Balancers).
• SQL proficient, RDS management, database hygiene.
• Experience with service mesh (Linkerd/Istio) is a plus.
• Cloud infrastructure management in AWS, high availability.
• Container orchestration (Kubernetes, Docker) is a must.
• Strong network management skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication.
• Azure DevOps for tickets, CI/CD, release management, and IaC.
• Flexible work hours.

Responsibilities

• Work closely with Development, Business, and Platform teams as the point for products and underlying infrastructure on AWS.
• Work in Agile methodology using Scrum and Kanban boards.
• Enable development teams with cloud best practices and AWS Well-Architected Framework.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design scalable and reliable solutions.
• Improve observability end to end for cloud applications.
• Support on-prem apps and migrate to AWS Cloud.
• Lead strategic initiatives for seamless application integration and optimal performance in cloud-native environments.
• Other activities as assigned by manager.

Skills

DevOps

Agile methodologies

Cloud native

Automation scripting

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

Terraform

Git

AWS

Azure DevOps

Python

PowerShell

Istio/Linkerd

CloudWatch

Job description

SitusAMC is where the best and most passionate people come to transform our client’s businesses and their own careers. Whether you’re a real estate veteran, a passionate technologist, or looking to get your start, join us as we work together to realize opportunities for everyone, we proudly serve.

At SitusAMC, we are looking to match your unique experience with one of our amazing careers, so that we can help you realize your potential and career growth within the Real Estate Industry. If you are someone who can be yourself, advocate for others, stay nimble, dream big, own every outcome, and think global but act local – come join our team!

In this role, you will be supporting products that have recently been transitioned from on-prem data center into AWS Cloud. The position will be heavily involved in strategizing and implementing cloud best practices for newly transitioned products into Cloud. You will maintain operational coverage of environments and continuously look for optimization, reengineering, and efficiency to ensure the products running on the cloud as a SaaS offering to our clients are stable and reliable. Additionally, enhancing automation capabilities, scaling, process improvement, metric collection, security, and visibility into the product environments. Leveraging various DevOps approaches which include but not limited to CI/CD processes, working closely with development teams to ensure a manageable and secure migration of change into the production environment. Other responsibilities may include getting embedded within product teams to enable the enterprise PaaS & SaaS offerings created by the Platform teams.

Essential Job Functions:

• Work closely with Development, Business, and Platform teams and being the point for products and underlying infrastructure of the products running in AWS Cloud

• Work in an Agile methodology using Scrum and Kanban boards.

• Enabling the development teams with Cloud best practices and having knowledge of AWS Well architected Framework

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design and implement scalable and reliable solutions.

• Improve observability aspects end to end of the Applications running in Cloud

• Experience with supporting applications on-prem and migrating them from on-prem to AWS Cloud

• Lead strategic initiatives for seamless application integration, orchestrating the collaboration of diverse software components to enhance overall system efficiency and drive optimal performance in dynamic, cloud-native environments

• Other activities as may be assigned by your manager

Qualifications/ Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of education and experience

• Experienced professional with 5+ years of industry and/or relevant experience, typically with 1+ years in an Associate level role or external equivalent.

• Cumulative experience in DevOps – with 70% Ops 30% Development efforts preferred

• Strong Experience with Containerization, Kubernetes, EKS, CI/CD pipelines using GitOps Methodology like ArgoCD and FluxCD

• Experience with Git for version controls, Azure DevOps preferably

• Experience with Monitoring tool (especially CloudWatch alerts ), troubleshooting issues and be the escalation point

• Implement best practices for configuring, tuning, and securing API’s/Microservices to achieve optimal performance and uptime

• Utilize tools such as curl and wget to perform diagnostics, analyze network performance, and troubleshoot connectivity issues.

• Demonstrate a deep knowledge of HTTP concepts and protocols to analyze and optimize web application performance.

• Strong experience with Terraform and best practices in IAC

• Strong scripting and automation skills (Python, Bash, and PowerShell).

• Expertise in transfer family with large files, managing EC2 instances and AMIs, deploying applications using AWS Elastic Beanstalk, and configuring and optimizing Load Balancers.

• Demonstrate proficiency in SQL and SQL administration, managing database/schema/catalog configurations, users/logins, and synonyms and performance troubleshooting in RDS.

• Implement and maintain basic database hygiene concepts, ensuring data integrity and efficient data storage.

• Experience with service mesh technologies (e.g., Linkerd, Istio) is a plus.

• Manage and optimize cloud-based infrastructure in AWS, ensuring high availability and performance.

• Experience with container orchestration tools (Kubernetes, Docker) is a must need

• Strong Network Management skills

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

• Experience working in Azure Devops , including managing and processing tickets, CI/CD pipelines, release management, and infrastructure as code.

• Flexible work hours

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Note: This job description is not intended to be all inclusive or exclusive. At any time, employees may perform other related duties as required to meet the ongoing needs of the organization and participate in additional trainings. SitusAMC does not accept unsolicited resumes from staffing agencies, search firms or any third parties. Any unsolicited resume submitted to SitusAMC in any manner will be considered SitusAMC property, and SitusAMC will not pay a fee for any placement resulting from the receipt of an unsolicited resume.

The annual full time base salary range for this role is

$95,000.00 - $135,000.00

Specific compensation is determined through interviews and a review of relevant education, experience, training, skills, geographic location and alignment with market data. Additionally, certain positions may be eligible to receive a discretionary bonus as determined by bonus program guidelines, position eligibility and SitusAMC Senior Management approval. SitusAMC offers PTO and paid holidays, the terms of which are set forth in the program policies. All full time employees also are eligible to participate in various benefit plans, including medical, dental, vision, life, disability insurance and 401K; in each case in accordance with the terms of the applicable plans.

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