Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Role Summary

The Senior Site Reliability Engineer supports complex cloud environments and mission-critical systems, with a focus on platform reliability, resilience, disaster recovery, infrastructure automation, and operational readiness. This role collaborates with engineering, security, application, and data teams to maintain secure, scalable, and reliable cloud-based platforms.

Responsibilities

• Support full-lifecycle platform portability and disaster recovery exercises, including validation of platform rebuild procedures and recovery playbooks.
• Execute infrastructure recovery exercises to confirm platforms can be restored within established recovery objectives.
• Verify data completeness, integrity, and accuracy during recovery exercises and document findings and remediation recommendations.
• Identify readiness gaps across infrastructure, deployment automation, monitoring, and data recovery processes and collaborate with engineering teams on corrective actions.
• Design, implement, and support Infrastructure as Code workflows using Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, and standardized CI/CD pipelines.
• Manage and optimize Kubernetes clusters and Docker-based workloads, including provisioning, scaling, and reliability improvements.
• Develop and maintain observability solutions using CloudWatch, Datadog, and similar monitoring and alerting tools.
• Develop automation, tools, and scripts using languages such as Python or Java to reduce manual processes and improve operational consistency.
• Collaborate with platform engineering, security, application, and data teams to support secure, reliable, and compliant platform operations.
• Participate in on-call rotations, root-cause analysis, and incident response activities to improve system resilience and operational performance.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree and 8 to 10 years of relevant experience in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, cloud engineering, infrastructure engineering, or a related field; master’s degree and 6 to 8 years of relevant experience; or equivalent professional experience in lieu of a degree.
• Advanced hands-on knowledge of AWS services across compute, networking, storage, identity and access management, and serverless technologies.
• Strong experience with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform and CloudFormation.
• Experience building CI/CD pipelines and progressive delivery processes using GitHub Actions or similar tools.
• Strong knowledge of Kubernetes administration, container orchestration, and Docker-based deployments.
• Experience validating disaster recovery processes, performing system rebuilds, and conducting data integrity checks.
• Experience developing dashboards, metrics, logging, and alerting solutions using CloudWatch, Datadog, or similar observability tools.
• Proficiency with programming or scripting languages such as Python, Java, C#, or Go.
• Experience troubleshooting complex system failures, including cascading failures, network partitions, backpressure, and distributed-system consistency issues.
• Strong analytical, communication, and documentation skills.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities while supporting highly visible, mission-critical systems.

Preferred Qualifications

• AWS DevOps, DevSecOps, or related certification.
• Additional AWS certifications, such as Solutions Architect, SysOps Administrator, or Developer, and/or Kubernetes certifications such as CKA or CKAD.
• Familiarity with Zero Trust security principles and cloud security best practices.
• Experience with GitLab, Jenkins, or similar CI/CD platforms.
• Experience working in highly regulated environments.
• Experience supporting large-scale enterprise modernization initiatives, including legacy-to-cloud migrations.
• Experience participating in disaster recovery exercises, continuity planning, or platform readiness assessments.

Additional Requirements

• Ability to meet applicable background investigation and eligibility requirements.
• Must be authorized to work in the United States.

Publishing Pay Range: $68.00- $72.00 Hourly
Location: On-site