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Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Castleton Commodities International · Stamford, CT · 2 wk ago
EngineeringFull-time

Responsibilities

  • Own and improve service reliability through SLO/SLI definition, error budgets, and operational best practices.
  • Design, implement, and maintain observability (monitoring, logging, tracing, alerting) to reduce MTTR and improve proactive detection.
  • Lead incident response practices including on-call improvements, runbooks, post-incident reviews (RCA), and preventative actions.
  • Partner with application teams to improve performance, capacity planning, and resiliency under failure scenarios.
  • Design and operate highly available, fault-tolerant Cloud architectures (multi-AZ and, where required, multi-region).
  • Implement resilient patterns across compute, storage, networking, and managed services (e.g., autoscaling, load balancing, backups, replication).
  • Drive cloud governance best practices (tagging, account/landing zone patterns, least privilege, guardrails) in partnership with security and platform teams.
  • Build and maintain IaC modules and standards (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation, CDK) for repeatable, auditable infrastructure delivery.
  • Develop, standardize, and optimize CI/CD pipelines to enable safe, automated deployments (e.g., GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, AWS CodePipeline).
  • Promote DevOps practices: version-controlled infrastructure, automated testing, immutable deployments, and progressive delivery patterns.
  • Establish environment consistency across dev/test/stage/prod and ensure infrastructure drift detection and remediation.
  • Collaborate with stakeholders to evaluate and define service-level RTO and RPO targets based on business and technical requirements.
  • Design and implement BCP/DR architectures and procedures (backups, restore workflows, replication, failover/failback, data integrity validation).
  • Coordinate and execute structured DR tests (tabletop, simulation, partial failover, full failover) and document outcomes.
  • Maintain DR runbooks, dependency maps, and recovery checklists; drive remediation of gaps identified during testing.
  • Produce metrics and reporting on DR readiness, test results, and continuous improvement actions.

Qualifications

  • 7+ years of experience in SRE, DevOps, Platform Engineering, or Systems Engineering roles supporting production environments.
  • Strong proficiency with observability platforms (e.g., Datadog, Prometheus/Grafana, ELK/OpenSearch, Nagios, Nimsoft, etc).
  • Strong hands-on AWS experience building and operating production systems.
  • Proven expertise with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform and/or CloudFormation/CDK).
  • Strong CI/CD and automation background (pipeline design, deployment strategies, testing automation).
  • Experience defining and validating RTO/RPO, and implementing BCP/DR plans with structured testing.
  • Experience with Kubernetes and auto-scaling container platforms (EKS, ECS, or Kubernetes on-prem).
  • Strong Linux fundamentals, networking concepts (DNS, TCP/IP, load balancing), and troubleshooting skills.
  • Proficiency in at least one scripting/programming language (Python, Go, Bash, or similar).
  • Ability to write clear operational documentation, runbooks, and post-incident reports.
  • Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, dynamic and high-intensity environment including open-floor plan if applicable to the position, with timely responsiveness and the ability to work beyond normal business hours when required.

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