Senior Site Reliability Engineer

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On-Site role

Job Description:

• We're seeking an experienced Senior Site Reliability Engineer to join our team and play a critical role in ensuring the reliability, scalability, and performance of our cloud infrastructure.
• You'll be a technical leader who combines deepoperational expertise with strong automation skills to build and maintain highly available systems.
• As a Kubernetes expert,you'll drive our container orchestration strategy and serve as a technical authority for our platform teams.

Key Responsibilities:

• Infrastructure & Automation.
• Design, deploy, and manage cloud infrastructure across AWS and Azure using Terraform and infrastructure-as-code principles.
• Architect, deploy, and maintain production-grade Kubernetes clusters with a focus on reliability, security, and performance.
• Serve as the subject matter expert on Kubernetes, providing guidance and best practices to engineering teams.
• Build and maintain automated provisioning pipelines to ensure consistent, repeatable deployments.
• Implement and maintain HashiCorp Vault on AWS for secrets management and security, including Vault integration with Kubernetes.
• Design and implement automated High Availability and Disaster Recovery (HA/DR) capabilities through CI/CDpipelines.
• Optimize cloud resources and Kubernetes workloads for performance, cost efficiency, and reliability.

Observability & Monitoring:

• Architect and implement comprehensive observability solutions using Datadog for cloud-native applications and Kubernetes infrastructure.
• Build monitoring, logging, and alerting frameworks for containerized workloads that provide actionable insights into system health.
• Implement Kubernetes-native monitoring patterns and troubleshoot complex container orchestration issues.
• Integrate Datadog with PagerDuty and other incident management platforms.
• Define and track SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets to drive reliability improvements.
• Create custom dashboards and monitors to track infrastructure, application, and Kubernetes cluster performance.

CI/CD & Pipeline Management:

• Design, build, and maintain robust CI/CD pipelines that enable rapid, safe deployments to Kubernetes.
• Implement GitOps workflows and automated deployment strategies for containerized applications.
• Implement automated testing, security scanning, and quality gates within pipelines.
• Drive solutions through test, QA, and production environments with appropriate controls and safeguards.
• Automate deployment strategies including blue-green, canary, and rolling deployments in Kubernetes.

Security & Vulnerability Management:

• Identify, assess, and remediate security vulnerabilities in infrastructure, applications, and Kubernetes clusters.
• Implement Kubernetes security best practices including RBAC, pod security policies/standards, and network policies.
• Collaborate with security teams to implement and maintain security best practices.
• Manage and maintain HashiCorp Vault infrastructure for secure secrets management.
• Ensure compliance with security policies and industry standards across all environments.
• Incident Management & Response.
• Participate in 24/7 on-call rotation to respond to critical production incidents.
• Serve as Incident Commander, coordinating cross-functional response teams during major outages.
• Lead post-incident reviews and drive thorough root cause analysis across engineering teams.
• Troubleshoot complex Kubernetes and distributed systems issues under pressure.
• Develop and refine incident response procedures and runbooks.
• Collaboration & Leadership.
• Partner with engineering teams to improve system reliability and performance.
• Mentor junior SREs and promote SRE best practices across the organization.
• Lead Kubernetes adoption efforts and educate teams on container orchestration best practices.
• Drive initiatives to reduce toil through automation and process improvement.
• Contribute to architectural decisions with a reliability and operability lens.

Required Qualifications:

• 5+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, or similar roles.
• Expert-level knowledge of Kubernetes, including architecture, operations, and troubleshooting in production environments.
• Proven track record as a go-to Kubernetes resource and technical authority.
• Deep understanding of container technologies (Docker, containerd) and orchestration patterns.
• Strong hands-on experience with AWS and Azurecloud platforms.
• Proficiency in Terraform for infrastructure automation and management.
• Expert-level knowledge of Datadog for monitoring, logging, and observability.
• Experience with HashiCorp Vault, including deployment and management on AWS and Kubernetes integration.
• Deep understanding of CI/CD pipelines, including design, implementation, and optimization for containerized workloads.
• Proven ability to implement automated HA/DR solutions through CI/CD workflows.
• Strong programming skills in Python for automation, tooling, and analysis.
• Proven experience building observability solutions for distributed cloud applications.
• Experience configuring monitoring and alerting systems and integrating with paging platforms like PagerDuty.
• Demonstrated experience identifying and remediating security vulnerabilities.
• Experience driving deployments through multiple environments (test/QA/production) with proper gates and controls.
• Demonstrated experience participating in on-call rotations and responding to production incidents.
• Experience serving as Incident Commander or leading incident response efforts.
• Track record of conducting root cause analysis and driving systemic improvements.
• Strong understanding of networking, security, and cloud architecture principles.
• Excellent communication skills with ability to work across multiple teams and explain complex Kubernetes concepts.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Google Cloud Platform (Google Cloud Platform) and GKE.
• Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) or Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist (CKS).
• Experience with service mesh technologies (Istio, Linkerd, Consul).
• Knowledge of Helm, Kustomize, and other Kubernetes tooling.
• Experience with GitOps tools (ArgoCD, Flux).
• Familiarity with additional CI/CD tools (Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, CircleCI).
• Experience with configuration management tools (Ansible, Chef, Puppet).
• Background in software engineering or systems programming.
• Understanding of chaos engineering and reliability testing methodologies.
• Experience with cost optimization strategies in cloud and Kubernetes environments.
• Security certifications (AWS Security Specialty, CISSP, CKS, etc.).
• Experience with compliance frameworks (SOC 2, ISO 27001, etc.).
• Contributions to open-source Kubernetes projects or active participation in the Kubernetes community.

What We Offer:

• Competitive salary and equity compensation.
• Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance.
• Flexible work arrangements.
• Professional development opportunities and certification support.
• Collaborative and inclusive team culture.
• Our Commitment.
• We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company.
• We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

To Apply:

• Please submit your resume and a brief cover letter explaining your Kubernetes expertise and experience with cloud reliability engineering.

About us:

At our organization, we take our mission and values to heart! We are on a mission to offer more and better jobs all over the world! Our goal is to care for you while you care for our clients and get you paid the highest pay possible. All our associates working with us are expected to embrace our RACE values: R - Results Matter, A- Approachable, C - Care, and E - Emergency i.e. work with a sense of urgency.

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