Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Overview

Lead key reliability initiatives and build scalable, fault-tolerant infrastructure across Tekion's platform, playing a pivotal role in incident response, automation, and performance optimization while mentoring junior engineers.

What you'll do

• Design and implement scalable monitoring, alerting, and self-healing systems to maintain service availability.
• Lead incident response for critical outages, driving root cause analysis and long-term resolution strategies.
• Develop infrastructure automation and reliability tooling to support deployment, recovery, and scaling.
• Collaborate with engineering and DevOps teams to embed reliability principles in product and platform design.
• Perform capacity planning, fault tolerance analysis, and performance optimization for high-traffic systems.
• Mentor junior SREs and share best practices in operational excellence, automation, and incident handling.

What you'll need

• 5–7 years of experience in site reliability engineering, DevOps, or infrastructure.
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• Expertise in cloud-native architecture (AWS, GCP, or Azure), Kubernetes, and distributed systems.
• Strong scripting and automation skills (Python, Go, Bash, Terraform, Ansible).
• Extensive experience with observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, Splunk).
• Proven track record in incident management, root cause analysis, and performance tuning.
• Strong communication, leadership, and mentoring abilities.

Details

• Operates independently with minimal oversight and drives high-priority initiatives.
• Current Tekion employees should apply via the Internal Job Board in Ashby.