Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Role Overview

Senior Site Reliability Engineer responsible for building and operating reliable systems in AWS, leading DevSecOps/security practices, and driving automation and progressive delivery.

Responsibilities

• Build and operate applications and infrastructure on AWS, including networking and security tooling.
• Lead DevSecOps initiatives across security, automation, implementation, integration, and release management.
• Establish and mature application development and CI/CD for progressive delivery.
• Develop infrastructure as code using CloudFormation.
• Improve incident readiness by driving real-time monitoring, alerting, and diagnostics; lead resolution of critical incidents.
• Facilitate multi-stakeholder technical root cause sessions and deliver roadmaps for future improvements.
• Manage critical-incident communications, ensuring actions are assigned with timelines.
• Support observability and telemetry using tools such as Datadog.

Requirements

• 8–10 years experience required (posting also references 12+ years in required skills).
• Hands-on experience operating on AWS, including networking and IT security tools and databases.
• Strong DevSecOps/security/automation expertise.
• Proficiency with AWS EKS and Kubernetes-based containerized applications, including Spring Boot-based services.
• Strong CI/CD experience with GitLab, including enabling environments, feature flags, and aggregation of DORA Metrics.
• Experience with identity and access management (roles, permissions).
• Cloud observability/operations experience using CloudWatch and OpenSearch.
• Observability experience with Datadog.
• Coding proficiency in at least one: Python, C, C++, Java, Ruby.
• Strong leadership presence and ability to communicate complex technical matters clearly.
• Must be able to execute tactically and strategically with strong attention to detail.

Nice-to-haves / Additional Skills

• AWS Solutions Architect – Professional and AWS Certified Security – Specialty.
• Experience with PaaS environments.
• Familiarity with remote access protocols/tools such as SFTP, RDP (Citrix), PCoIP/DCV (AWS Workspaces) and AWS Session Manager.
• Real-time monitoring/alerting/incident tooling experience.

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, software engineering, or relevant field required.