SRE Engineer

Title: SRE Engineer

Location: Atlanta, GA

Only Locals

Experience:10+ years

Job Description:

We are seeking an experienced Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) with advanced DevOps expertise to help build, scale, and maintain our infrastructure and services. You will play a critical role in ensuring high availability, performance, scalability, and security of our production systems, while enabling continuous deployment and rapid delivery of features to our customers.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, build, and maintain reliable, scalable, and secure cloud-based infrastructure (AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform).
• Develop and improve observability using monitoring, alerting, logging, and tracing tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Datadog, etc.).
• Automate repetitive tasks and infrastructure using Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform, CloudFormation, Pulumi).
• Create and maintain CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, ArgoCD, etc.) to support fast and safe delivery.
• Lead incident response, root cause analysis, and postmortems to ensure high uptime and rapid recovery.
• Optimize system performance, reliability, and cost-effectiveness through proactive monitoring and tuning.
• Collaborate with software engineering teams to define SLAs/SLOs and improve service reliability.
• Implement and maintain security best practices across environments (e.g., secrets management, IAM, firewalls, etc.).
• Maintain disaster recovery plans, backups, and high-availability strategies.

Qualifications:

Required:

• 5+ years of experience as an SRE, DevOps Engineer, or similar role.
• Proficiency in scripting and automation (Bash, Python, Go, etc.).
• Strong experience with containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes, Helm).
• Solid understanding of Linux systems administration and networking fundamentals.
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform).
• Experience with IaC tools like Terraform or CloudFormation.
• Familiarity with GitOps and modern deployment practices.
• Hands-on experience with observability tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog).
• Strong troubleshooting and incident response skills.

Preferred:

• Experience in a high-traffic, microservices-based architecture.
• Exposure to service meshes (Istio, Linkerd).
• Certifications (AWS Certified DevOps Engineer, CKA, etc.)
• Experience with security automation and compliance (e.g., SOC2, ISO27001).

Soft Skills:

• Strong communication and collaboration abilities.
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, agile environment.
• Analytical mindset and proactive approach to problem-solving.
• A passion for automation, performance, and system design.