AWS SRE

Job Title: Senior AWS Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

Location: New Jersey / Columbus, OH

Experience: 6–10+ years

Job Summary

We are seeking an experienced AWS Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to design, build, automate, and maintain highly available, scalable, secure, and reliable cloud infrastructure and applications.

The ideal candidate will have strong hands-on experience with AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD, monitoring/observability, Linux, Python/Bash scripting, and production incident management. The engineer will work closely with development, infrastructure, security, and operations teams to improve system reliability and automate operational processes.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain highly available and scalable infrastructure on AWS.
• Manage AWS services including EC2, EKS, ECS, S3, RDS, Lambda, VPC, IAM, CloudWatch, Route 53, and Load Balancers.
• Build and maintain infrastructure using Terraform/Terragrunt and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) best practices.
• Design, administer, and troubleshoot Kubernetes/EKS environments.
• Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, GitHub Actions, or similar tools.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning, application deployments, monitoring, and operational processes.
• Develop scripts and automation using Python, Bash, or Go.
• Implement monitoring, alerting, logging, and observability using tools such as CloudWatch, Splunk, Datadog, Dynatrace, Prometheus, and Grafana.
• Participate in 24x7 on-call rotation and respond to production incidents.
• Troubleshoot complex infrastructure, networking, application, and cloud-related issues.
• Lead incident response, root-cause analysis (RCA), and post-incident remediation activities.
• Define and improve SLOs, SLIs, SLAs, availability, latency, and reliability metrics.
• Implement auto-scaling, fault tolerance, disaster recovery, backup, and high-availability solutions.
• Identify opportunities to eliminate manual operational tasks through automation.
• Work with development teams to ensure applications are designed and deployed with reliability, scalability, and performance in mind.
• Implement AWS security best practices involving IAM, encryption, networking, secrets management, and least-privilege access.
• Monitor AWS infrastructure for performance and cost optimization opportunities.
• Create and maintain technical documentation, runbooks, operational procedures, and troubleshooting guides.

Required Skills

• 6+ years of experience in SRE, DevOps, Cloud Engineering, Infrastructure Engineering, or related roles.
• Strong hands-on experience with AWS.
• Strong experience with Terraform/Terragrunt.
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes/EKS.
• Strong understanding of Linux/Unix administration.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation.
• Proficiency in Python, Bash, or Go.
• Strong understanding of AWS networking, VPC, subnets, security groups, IAM, DNS, and load balancing.
• Experience with monitoring, logging, alerting, and observability.
• Strong production troubleshooting and incident-management experience.
• Experience with distributed systems, microservices, and cloud-native architectures.
• Strong understanding of high availability, scalability, resiliency, and disaster recovery.

Preferred Skills

• AWS Certified DevOps Engineer or AWS Certified Solutions Architect.
• Experience with Helm, ArgoCD, GitOps, Docker, Ansible, or CloudFormation.
• Experience with Prometheus and Grafana.
• Experience with Splunk, Datadog, Dynatrace, or New Relic.
• Experience implementing blue/green, canary, and rolling deployments.
• Experience with service mesh technologies such as Istio.
• Experience with AWS cost optimization and FinOps.
• Experience working in financial services, healthcare, telecommunications, or other highly regulated environments.
• Strong knowledge of security and compliance requirements for cloud environments.