Senior Site Reliability Engineer – Internet Security Platform/rEMOTE

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Job Title: Senior Site Reliability Engineer – Internet Security Platform

Location: Remote

Experience: 5–10 years


Job Summary

We are seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to ensure the reliability, scalability, and security of our internet-facing security platform. You will work on high-availability systems that protect and process large-scale network traffic, driving automation, observability, and incident response excellence.


Key Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and operate highly available, scalable, and secure infrastructure
  • Maintain uptime and performance of internet security platforms (e.g., WAF, DDoS protection, gateways)
  • Implement and improve observability (monitoring, logging, tracing, alerting)
  • Automate infrastructure provisioning and operational workflows
  • Lead incident response, root cause analysis, and postmortems
  • Collaborate with security, platform, and development teams to harden systems
  • Optimize system performance, latency, and cost efficiency
  • Define and enforce SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets

Required Skills & Qualifications

  • Strong experience in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, or production engineering
  • Proficiency in Linux/Unix systems and networking fundamentals (TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP/S)
  • Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Google Cloud Platform, or Azure)
  • Hands-on experience with containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes)
  • Strong scripting/programming skills (Python, Go, or Bash)
  • Experience with infrastructure as code (Terraform, CloudFormation)
  • Knowledge of monitoring tools (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack, etc.)

Security-Focused Requirements

  • Understanding of internet security concepts (TLS, firewalls, WAF, Zero Trust)
  • Experience mitigating DDoS attacks and handling large-scale traffic patterns
  • Familiarity with CDN, edge networks, and secure proxy architectures
  • Knowledge of vulnerability management and system hardening

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience operating high-scale distributed systems
  • Familiarity with incident management tools and on-call practices
  • Exposure to compliance standards (SOC 2, ISO 27001, etc.)
  • Experience with service mesh (e.g., Istio, Linkerd)

Leadership & Impact

  • Drive reliability best practices across teams
  • Mentor junior engineers and improve operational maturity
  • Lead critical incident handling and continuous improvement initiatives

Soft Skills

  • Strong problem-solving and analytical thinking
  • Clear communication during high-pressure incidents
  • Ownership mindset with a focus on reliability and security

Nice to Have

  • Experience working in cybersecurity or internet-scale platforms
  • Contributions to open-source SRE or security tooling
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  • Dice Id: 10513292
  • Position Id: 72330-12895-
  • Posted 1 hour ago
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