Senior Site Reliability Engineer

About the role

The Senior Site Reliability Engineer will ensure production systems in use by the Security Teams operate smoothly, within uptime objectives, and updated with the latest content and functionality. The SRE will coordinate with developers to monitor the pulse of system performance and capacity, proactively recommending and implementing changes while automating toil and repetitive tasks.

Responsibilities

• Architect new and existing systems to enhance performance, reliability, and scalability
• Build, implement, iterate over CI/CD pipelines
• Aid in the Management, Development, Design, and Deployment of microservice and containerized applications
• Implement strong security controls in distributed systems/agents
• Cook up coordination with engineers and developers to automate deployments and configurations across various platforms
• Abstract the complexity of Observability implementation by writing scalable automation
• Identify opportunities for improvement around observability and process
• Standardize and develop alerts/notifications and response to monitoring tools
• Work alongside application teams to implement Observability in day-to-day operations
• Contribute to post-mortems and provide root cause analysis and implementation of resulting action items
• Promote DevOps best-practices within the team
• Participate and promote Agile/Scrum
• Contribute to hybrid cloud production containerization service offering
• Design and implement standards, policies, and procedures for automation and integrations
• Collaborate with application subject matter experts to learn our toolsets and suggest/implement new features to streamline operations

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree with 7 years experience; Master's Degree with 6 years experience; PhD with 2 years experience
• Treat best practices for security as a requirement, not an afterthought
• Knowledge of Cloud Platform administration (AWS, GCP, Azure)
• Familiarity with Observability pillars
• Experience in working in high-scale environments and understanding of distributed architectures
• Knowledge of Agile / DevOps methodologies
• Experience with CI/CD tools (GitHub Actions, Bamboo, Jenkins, Azure DevOps)
• Familiarity with running Docker workloads using orchestration tools (Kubernetes/Amazon ECS)
• Ability to work independently without direction and with a group for day-to-day activities
• Passion for learning new concepts and processes quickly and adapting to a changing environment
• Comfortable working in and administering Linux and Windows environments

Preferred

• Exposure and implementation of SPIRE/SPIFFE
• Direct experience with Terraform/Crossplane
• Proficiency working with development tools and scripting languages (git / mercurial / subversion; Python / Elixir / Go)
• Integrating MCP Servers with authorization controls
• Knowledge of database management systems (NoSQL, Relational Databases, and associated query languages)
• AWS Cloud Practitioner/Azure AZ-900 Certification
• Deep experience in implementation and design of serverless architecture solutions
• Demonstrated experience in deployment of containerized applications (Kubernetes, etc.)
• Experience with data management and pipeline technologies (Apache Storm, Kafka, Flink, Spark, Hadoop, etc.)
• Prior experience working in an Agile team
• Solid understanding of observability solutions using OpenTelemetry, Prometheus/Grafana or similar applications
• Excellent understanding of distributed system architectures and telemetry
• Excellent experience in deploying and managing large Kubernetes distributed platforms
• Proficiency in GitOps practices and Infrastructure as Code systems (such as Terraform, ArgoCD, Helm)