Senior AWS Reliability Engineer

KnowBe4, Inc.; Cape Town; On-site; ZAR 900,000 - 1,300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Company bonuses

Adoption assistance

Tuition reimbursement

Certification reimbursement

Certification completion bonuses

Job summary

KnowBe4, Inc. in Cape Town, South Africa, is hiring a Senior Site Reliability Engineer. You will help ensure reliable, secure, and scalable platforms in a fast-paced, agile environment, collaborating with peers to improve safety and reliability of distributed services.

The ideal candidate loves new AWS releases, stays current with industry patterns, and communicates effectively. Strong time-management and collaboration skills are essential.

Qualifications

• BS/MS/Ph.D. or equivalent plus 5 years experience.
• Training in secure coding practices (preferred).
• Experience designing and operating high-scale patterns in AWS.
• Experience building and designing repeatable workflows for continuous integration and deployment (CI/CD) - GitLab is preferred.
• Ability to self-manage time across competing projects.

Responsibilities

• Work with other Site Reliability Engineers to build scalable and resilient applications in AWS.
• Maintain and improve extensible infrastructure-as-code using Terraform.
• Learn, maintain, and improve deployment strategies.
• Deliver observability, monitoring, and alerting patterns for KnowBe4’s applications and infrastructure.
• Act as escalation point for production incidents and root-cause analysis.
• Provide design of globally distributed systems and processes.
• Identify and correct deficiencies in applications/infrastructure.
• Define new approaches to complex technical problems.
• Lead projects with other SREs and communicate progress to stakeholders.

Skills

C#

Python

Ruby

Rust

TypeScript

Education

BS/MS/Ph.D. or equivalent + 5 years experience

Tools

Terraform

AWS CDK

GitLab

DataDog

CloudZero

Job description

KnowBe4, Inc. in Cape Town, South Africa, is hiring a Senior Site Reliability Engineer. You will help ensure reliable, secure, and scalable platforms in a fast-paced, agile environment, collaborating with peers to improve safety and reliability of distributed services.

The ideal candidate loves new AWS releases, stays current with industry patterns, and communicates effectively. Strong time-management and collaboration skills are essential.