Location: New York City, NY
Salary: $110,000.00 USD Annually - $120,000.00 USD Annually
Description: Job Description: AWS Cloud Operations / Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) Location: New York, NY 10010
Employment: Fulltime Experience: 10+ Years Role Overview The AWS Cloud Operations / Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) will be responsible for building, maintaining, and optimizing secure, scalable, and highly available cloud infrastructure on AWS. This role involves end-to-end platform operations, AMI lifecycle ownership, infrastructure automation using Terraform, production support, observability, patching, and ensuring reliability of mission-critical workloads. Experience with Harness for DevOps pipelines is a strong plus.
Key Responsibilities 1. AWS Platform Operations & Release Management - Own AWS platform release cycles including validation, regression testing, and readiness reviews.
- Operate and enhance AWS core services: VPC, IAM, KMS, Route 53, networking baselines, proxy layers, organizational guardrails.
- Ensure environments follow governance, compliance, and security standards.
2. Infrastructure as a Service (IaC) with Terraform - Build, deploy, and manage cloud infrastructure using Terraform as the primary IaC tool.
- Develop reusable Terraform modules for networking, compute, storage, EKS, and security.
- Ensure IaC is version-controlled, peer-reviewed, immutable, and automated through CI/CD.
3. Amazon EKS (Kubernetes) Operations - Deploy, upgrade, and maintain production-grade EKS clusters and add-ons.
- Implement Kubernetes standards around RBAC, networking, namespaces, and secrets.
- Collaborate with application teams to ensure secure and reliable container workloads.
- Optimize cluster scaling, resource allocation, performance, and workload scheduling.
4. AMI Lifecycle & Image Management - Manage AMI lifecycle including creation, CIS hardening, scanning, tagging, publishing, and deprecation.
- Build automated AMI pipelines using Image Builder / Packer.
- Maintain golden images for EC2 fleets, EKS workloads, and hybrid environments.
5. VIT (Vulnerability / Integrity / Integration Testing) & Patch Management - Lead vulnerability assessments, remediation, compliance tracking, and SLA adherence.
- Manage OS and image patching using AWS Systems Manager (SSM) Patch Manager.
- Maintain baselines, compliance dashboards, and automated maintenance windows.
6. Observability & Application Layer Monitoring - Build and maintain monitoring and logging systems using CloudWatch, X-Ray, OpenTelemetry, and log analytics.
- Provide deep visibility into application behavior, dependencies, performance, and failure patterns.
- Implement golden-signal dashboards for latency, traffic, errors, and saturation.
7. CI/CD & DevOps Automation - Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure and application deployments.
- Integrate Terraform, AMI pipelines, EKS updates, and patch automation into pipelines.
- Harness experience is a plus-especially for canary, blue/green, and verification workflows.
8. Reliability Engineering & Incident Response - Participate in on-call rotation; lead incident response, triage, and RCA.
- Implement runbooks, automation, and solutions to reduce operational toil.
- Recommend and drive architectural improvements to enhance availability, resiliency, and performance.
9. Documentation & Architecture - Produce detailed Infrastructure Design Documents, runbooks, DR plans, release notes, and architecture diagrams.
- Conduct capacity planning, cost optimization, and operational readiness reviews.
Required Qualifications - 10+ years in SRE, Cloud Operations, or DevOps with a strong AWS background.
- Hands-on experience with:
- Compute: EC2, ASG, EKS/ECS, Lambda
- Networking: VPC, Route 53, Security Groups/NACLs, ALB/NLB
- Storage: S3, EBS, EFS
- Databases: RDS, Aurora, DynamoDB
- Expertise in AMI pipeline management, CIS hardening, and OS-level security.
- Strong proficiency with Terraform or CloudFormation.
- Proven ability to troubleshoot AWS and application stack issues end-to-end.
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