About the role

Role Overview

Fortress Information Security is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to ensure the reliability, performance, and scalability of critical systems across AWS and on-premises. The role emphasizes improving deployment processes, strengthening CI/CD, increasing automation, and enhancing monitoring and observability.

Responsibilities

Transition applications from traditional Ansible deployments to containerized, orchestrated deployments on AWS and on-premises
Improve CI/CD to support multiple deployment strategies such as Blue/Green and Canary
Support Development/QA/UAT by building environments for testing releases throughout the development lifecycle
Enhance shared developer infrastructure: CI/CD pipelines, log/application monitoring, cluster management, and configuration management
Migrate secrets/configuration from Ansible Vault to HashiCorp Vault
Automate infrastructure provisioning during deployment
Manage code deployments across cloud and on-premises environments
Implement monitoring and alerting based on service level metrics/objectives
Support production operations including incident response and after-hours release support
Provide technical guidance, educate teammates, and contribute to continuous operational reliability improvements

Requirements (Minimum Qualifications)

5–8 years hands-on experience in SRE/DevOps supporting production systems
Production experience with Linux-based infrastructure and AWS administration (e.g., RDS, VPC, ECR, CloudWatch, CloudFormation, Lambda, API Gateway) plus on-premises
Demonstrated deployment experience with Kubernetes, Ansible, Jenkins, Terraform (or similar)
Strong documentation, and excellent written/verbal communication
Experience implementing rolling upgrades (e.g., Canary, Blue/Green)
Strong scripting/tooling skills (Bash, Python, JavaScript)
Ability to independently refine processes using prompts/automation in regular work
Willingness to participate in recorded/transcribed technical interviews/questions

Preferred Skills

Knowledge of SOC, NERC, and other compliance standards
Presentation skills for technical and non-technical audiences
Strong Linux system administration and scripting abilities
Ability to create comprehensive documentation

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or related field (required)
Master’s degree (preferred)

Compensation & Work Model

$160,000–$180,000/year depending on experience
Remote/Hybrid environment; Greater Orlando location mentioned

About Fortress Information Security

Fortress Information Security is a company focused on protecting and securing information systems and critical services. The team operates in security and operational reliability domains, supporting production infrastructure and deployment processes across cloud and on-premises environments.

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