Senior Site Reliability Engineer
Juul Labs · Austin, TX · Yesterday
HybridEngineering$185k/yrFull-time
Role and Responsibilities
A Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) is expected to own the operational stability and performance of Juul’s hybrid cloud infrastructure (Nutanix, AWS/GCP).
- Lead automation efforts, architect for reliability, and act as the final escalation point for critical incidents to ensure the platform is scalable and efficient.
- Design, deploy, and maintain enterprise-scale Nutanix AHV clusters and Prism Central for multi-cluster management.
- Expert-level proficiency with Nutanix CLI (nCLI and acli) for advanced operations, troubleshooting, and automation.
- Create and manage VM templates, golden images, and standardized deployment catalogs for consistent provisioning.
- Design disaster recovery solutions using Leap, Protection Domains, cross-cluster replication, and metro clustering.
- Implement network micro-segmentation using Nutanix Flow and configure RBAC, encryption, and security hardening.
- Lead L3 troubleshooting using advanced diagnostics, log analysis (CVM, Genesis), NCC health checks, and cluster service resolution.
- Configure high availability, VM affinity rules, QoS policies, and optimize performance for mission-critical workloads.
- Manage AHV networking with OVS bridges, VLANs, bonds, LACP and implement resource reservations and workload balance.
- Design, deploy, and maintain hybrid cloud infrastructure across Nutanix HCI, AWS, and GCP platforms.
- Architect and implement multi-cloud solutions ensuring high availability, scalability, and disaster recovery.
- Cloud Platform Engineering
- Architect and deploy enterprise-scale, highly available multi-cloud solutions across AWS and GCP with multi-region/multi-account strategies.
- Expert-level proficiency with AWS CLI, GCP CLI, SDK, boto3, and Python for advanced automation and infrastructure orchestration.
- Design AWS Organizations and GCP Organization hierarchies with consolidated billing, IAM policies, and centralized governance.
- Implement centralized logging using CloudWatch/CloudTrail and GCP Cloud Logging with S3/Cloud Storage aggregation.
- Integrate AWS and GCP with Splunk using HEC, CloudWatch subscriptions, Pub/Sub, Dataflow, and cloud-specific add-ons for SIEM correlation.
- Design and deploy advanced load balancing solutions with AWS ALB/NLB/ELB and GCP Cloud Load Balancing including SSL termination and auto-scaling.
- Develop infrastructure-as-code using Terraform, CloudFormation, CDK for repeatable multi-cloud deployments and CI/CD pipelines.
- Configure AWS SSO, cross-account IAM roles, GCP Workload Identity, and federated access for centralized identity management.
- Manage containerized workloads using EKS, GKE, ECS, Cloud Run with service mesh, observability, and security best practices.
- Implement disaster recovery using AWS Backup, Cross-Region Replication, GCP snapshots, and multi-region failover strategies.
- Lead L3 troubleshooting using CloudWatch Insights, GCP Cloud Trace, VPC Flow Logs, X-Ray, and vendor support escalation.
- Perform cost optimization through Reserved Instances, Committed Use Discounts, rightsizing, and automated resource lifecycle management.
- System Administration
- Administer and support Windows Server and Unix/Linux environments in production and non-production settings.
- Perform OS-level hardening, patch management, and security compliance across heterogeneous systems.
- Automate routine administrative tasks using PowerShell, Bash, Python, or similar scripting languages.
- Manage GitHub organization settings, user permissions, repository access controls, and monitor GitHub Actions workflows and repository health across multiple teams.
- Configure Splunk forwarders, heavy forwarders and other integrations for data ingestion from cloud and on-premises sources.
Personal and Professional Qualifications
- 8-12+ years infrastructure experience with 8+ years in Nutanix HCI and enterprise cloud AWS/GCP.
- Expert-level skills in Python, PowerShell, Bash scripting, infrastructure-as-code (Terraform/CloudFormation), and container orchestration (Kubernetes, EKS/GKE).
- Proven experience managing enterprise-scale environments, hybrid cloud migrations, disaster recovery, and L3 critical incident management.
- Strong networking knowledge (TCP/IP, VLANs, routing, VPN), security hardening, and compliance frameworks (ITIL).
- Strategic thinker with exceptional analytical and troubleshooting abilities for complex multi-layer infrastructure issues.
- Excellent communication skills to translate technical concepts to executives and non-technical stakeholders.
- Calm under pressure during critical outages with meticulous attention to security, compliance, and configuration management.
- Self-motivated continuous learner committed to staying current with evolving cloud technologies and automation opportunities.
- Available for on-call rotations with strong documentation skills and customer service orientation.
Juul Labs Perks & Benefits
- People. Work with talented, committed and supportive teammates.
- Equity and performance bonuses. Every employee is a stakeholder in our success.
- Cell phone subsidy, commuter benefits and discounts on JUUL products.
- Excellent medical, dental and vision, disability, and life insurance, plus family support, wellness, legal, and employee assistance program benefits.
- 401(k) plan with company matching.
- Plus biannual discretionary performance bonuses.