Site Reliability Engineer (Hybrid)

Responsibilities

• System Architecture Support: Assist in maintaining and improving systems to enhance performance, reliability, and scalability.
• CICD Pipeline Maintenance: Support the building, implementation, and iteration of CI/CD pipelines.
• Microservices Deployment: Assist with the management and deployment of microservice and containerized applications.
• Security Implementation: Help implement strong security controls across distributed systems and agents.
• Deployment Automation: Coordinate with engineers to help automate configurations and deployments across platforms.
• Observability Management: Write automation scripts and standardize alerts for established monitoring tools.
• Incident Response: Contribute to post-mortems and assist teams with root cause analysis.
• DevOps Promotion: Support Agile/Scrum practices and promote DevOps methodologies within the team.
• Hybrid Cloud Support: Assist in maintaining hybrid cloud and containerization service offerings.
• Toolset Operations: Work alongside subject matter experts to learn toolsets and suggest day-to-day operational improvements.

Qualifications

• Bachelors Degree with 6 years experience; or Masters Degree with 5 years experience; or PhD
• Fundamental knowledge of Cloud Platform administration (AWS, GCP, or Azure).
• Experience with or a strong understanding of CI/CD tools (e.g., GitHub Actions, Bamboo, Jenkins, Azure DevOps).
• Familiarity with running Docker workloads and orchestration tools (Kubernetes, Amazon ECS).
• Foundational understanding of observability tools and pillars (metrics, logs, tracing).
• Comfortable working in and administering Linux and Windows environments.
• Knowledge of Agile and DevOps methodologies.
• A security-first mindset, treating best practices for security as a core requirement rather than an afterthought.
• Ability to work effectively both independently and collaboratively within a group.
• A strong passion for learning new concepts quickly and adapting to a changing environment.
• Proficiency with development tools and scripting languages (e.g., Python, Go, Bash, Git).
• Entry-level cloud certifications (e.g., AWS Cloud Practitioner, Azure AZ-900).
• Exposure to Infrastructure as Code (IaC) systems such as Terraform or GitOps practices (ArgoCD, Helm).
• Familiarity with observability solutions (e.g., OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana).
• Knowledge of database management systems (NoSQL and Relational Databases).
• Prior hands-on experience working within an Agile team structure.
• Exposure to SPIRE/SPIFFE and authorization controls.
• Familiarity with serverless architectures and distributed system concepts.
• Experience with data management and pipeline technologies (e.g., Kafka, Spark, Hadoop).
• Basic understanding of integrating MCP servers with authorization controls.