Sr Site Reliability Engineer -Remote US

Overview

Senior Site Reliability Engineer supporting products recently migrated from an on-prem data center into AWS Cloud, owning cloud best practices, operational coverage, reliability, automation and observability for SaaS offerings used by clients.

What you'll do

• Strategize and implement cloud best practices for newly transitioned products in AWS Cloud.
• Maintain operational coverage of environments and continuously pursue optimization, reengineering and efficiency so products remain stable and reliable.
• Enhance automation capabilities, scaling, process improvement, metric collection, security and visibility into product environments.
• Apply DevOps approaches including CI/CD processes, working closely with development teams to ensure a manageable and secure migration of change into production.
• Serve as the point of contact for products and underlying infrastructure running in AWS Cloud, working with Development, Business and Platform teams.
• Work in an Agile methodology using Scrum and Kanban boards.
• Enable development teams with cloud best practices and knowledge of the AWS Well-Architected Framework.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design and implement scalable and reliable solutions.
• Improve end-to-end observability of applications running in the cloud.
• Lead strategic initiatives for seamless application integration, orchestrating diverse software components to enhance system efficiency and performance in cloud-native environments.
• Get embedded within product teams to enable enterprise PaaS and SaaS offerings created by Platform teams.
• Perform other activities as assigned by your manager.

What you'll need

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• 5+ years of industry and/or relevant experience, typically with 1+ years in an Associate-level role or external equivalent.
• Experience with supporting applications on-prem and migrating them from on-prem to AWS Cloud.
• Strong experience with containerization, Kubernetes, EKS, and container orchestration tools (Kubernetes, Docker).
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines using GitOps methodology such as ArgoCD and FluxCD.
• Experience with Git for version control; Azure DevOps preferred.
• Experience with monitoring tools (especially CloudWatch alerts), troubleshooting issues and serving as the escalation point.
• Implement best practices for configuring, tuning and securing APIs/microservices to achieve optimal performance and uptime.
• Use tools such as curl and wget to perform diagnostics, analyze network performance and troubleshoot connectivity issues.
• Demonstrate deep knowledge of HTTP concepts and protocols to analyze and optimize web application performance.
• Strong experience with Terraform and infrastructure-as-code best practices.
• Strong scripting and automation skills in Python, Bash and PowerShell.
• Expertise in AWS Transfer Family with large files, managing EC2 instances and AMIs, deploying applications using AWS Elastic Beanstalk, and configuring and optimizing Load Balancers.
• Proficiency in SQL and SQL administration, including managing database/schema/catalog configurations, users/logins, synonyms and performance troubleshooting in RDS.
• Implement and maintain basic database hygiene concepts, ensuring data integrity and efficient data storage.
• Manage and optimize cloud-based infrastructure in AWS, ensuring high availability and performance.
• Strong network management skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Experience working in Azure DevOps, including managing and processing tickets, CI/CD pipelines, release management and infrastructure as code.

Nice to have

• Cumulative experience in DevOps, with 70% Ops and 30% Development efforts.
• Experience with service mesh technologies (e.g., Linkerd, Istio).

Details

• Remote role.
• Flexible work hours.
• Annual full-time base salary range: $95,000.00 - $135,000.00, determined through interviews and review of education, experience, skills, geographic location and market data.