Staff Site Reliability Engineer

Finalsite; Glastonbury (CT); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Finalsite is seeking a Staff Site Reliability Engineer with over 10 years of experience in cloud infrastructure. This remote role involves leading the evolution of infrastructure, managing CI/CD pipelines, and ensuring operational excellence in multi-cloud environments like AWS and GCP. Ideal candidates will have extensive expertise in Kubernetes and observability practices. Must be a permanent resident of the US. Finalsite promotes an equal opportunity workplace ensuring inclusion of all qualified individuals.

Qualifications

• At least 10 years of experience as a Staff SRE or senior‑level infrastructure engineer supporting production systems at scale.
• Hands‑on experience with Kubernetes operations and workload reliability.
• Experience designing and improving CI/CD infrastructure and deployment automation.

Responsibilities

• Design, improve, and maintain scalable CI/CD pipelines and deployment processes.
• Establish reliable staging and development environments aligned with production standards.
• Build and manage observability practices, including monitoring and alerting.

Skills

AWS expertise

GCP expertise

CI/CD infrastructure design

Kubernetes operations

Inflastructure-as-Code (Terraform)

Incident management

Strong communication skills

AI-assisted development tools

Job description

SUMMARY OF THE ROLE

The Staff Site Reliability Engineer will lead the evolution of Finalsite’s infrastructure, reliability, and observability practices across a multi‑cloud environment. This role partners closely with engineering leadership to improve CI/CD, environment consistency, scalability, and operational excellence across critical platform initiatives.

LOCATION

100% Remote - Anywhere within the US

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Design, improve, and maintain scalable CI/CD pipelines and deployment processes
• Establish reliable staging and development environments aligned with production standards
• Build and manage observability practices, including monitoring, alerting, dashboards, and SLO frameworks
• Partner with engineering teams to support platform modernization and infrastructure reliability
• Drive Infrastructure‑as‑Code (IaC) standards and multi‑cloud operational consistency across AWS and GCP
• Provide technical leadership on infrastructure architecture, reliability, and operational best practices
• Support incident response, system reliability, and operational readiness initiatives
• Utilize AI‑assisted development tools to support infrastructure analysis and improvement efforts

QUALIFICATIONS AND SKILLS

Basic Qualifications

• At least 10 years of experience as a Staff SRE or senior‑level infrastructure engineer supporting production systems at scale
• Strong expertise in AWS and GCP cloud platforms
• Familiarity with queue‑based or event‑driven architectures and autoscaling technologies
• Experience designing and improving CI/CD infrastructure and deployment automation
• Hands‑on Kubernetes operations experience, including scalability and workload reliability
• Experience with observability tools, monitoring strategies, and incident management practices
• Proficiency with Infrastructure‑as‑Code tools such as Terraform or comparable technologies
• Strong communication and collaboration skills across engineering teams
• Experience using AI‑assisted development tools such as Claude Code, Codex, or similar technologies

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting platform modernization or large‑scale migration initiatives
• Experience supporting multi‑tenant SaaS environments
• Background leading or advancing modern SRE practices within infrastructure teams
• Familiarity with Ruby/Rails or Python deployment environments
• Experience within EdTech, SaaS, or other highly available production environments

RESIDENCY REQUIREMENT

Finalsite offers 100% fully remote employment opportunities, however, these opportunities are limited to permanent residents of the United States. Current residency, as well as continued residency, within the United States is required to obtain (and retain) employment with Finalsite.

DISCLOSURES

Finalsite is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please contact Finalsite's People Operations Team. Finalsite is committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals. As part of this commitment, Finalsite will ensure that persons with disabilities or special needs are provided a reasonable accommodation.