Lead Site Reliability Engineer

Job Description

YOUR IMPACT: The Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) will be responsible for ensuring the availability, reliability, and scalability of cloud infrastructure and services. This role focuses on automation, performance optimization, incident response, and CI/CD pipeline management to support highly available and resilient applications. The ideal candidate will bring deep expertise in AWS, Kubernetes, GitLab CI/CD, and Infrastructure as Code (IaC). WHAT THE ROLE OFFERS: Cloud Infrastructure & Reliability Engineering Architect, deploy, and maintain highly available and scalable cloud environments in AWS. Design and manage Kubernetes clusters (EKS) and containerized applications with Docker. Implement auto-scaling, load balancing, and fault tolerance for cloud services. Develop and optimize Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform, Tofu, or Ansible. CI/CD & Automation Design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines using GitLab CI/CD and ArgoCD. Automate deployment workflows, infrastructure provisioning, and release management. Ensure secure, compliant, and automated software delivery across multiple environments. Monitoring, Incident Response & Performance Optimization Implement observability and monitoring using tools like CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, or Datadog. Analyze system performance, detect anomalies, and optimize cloud resource utilization. Drive incident response and root cause analysis, ensuring fast recovery (MTTR) and minimal downtime. Establish Service Level Objectives (SLOs) and error budgets to maintain system health. Security & Compliance Implement security best practices, including IAM policies, encryption, network security, and vulnerability scanning. Automate patch management and security updates for cloud infrastructure. Ensure compliance with industry standards and regulations (SOC2, ISO27001, HIPAA, etc.). Collaboration & Leadership Work closely with DevOps, security, and development teams to drive reliability best practices. Lead blameless postmortems and continuously improve operational processes. Provide mentorship and training to junior engineers on SRE principles and cloud best practices. Participate in on-call rotations, ensuring 24/7 reliability of production services. WHAT YOU NEED TO SUCCEED: Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience. 10-12 years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), DevOps, or Cloud Engineering. Expertise in AWS Cloud Hands-on experience with EC2, VPC, RDS, S3, IAM, Lambda, and EKS. Strong Kubernetes knowledge Hands-on experience with EKS, Helm charts, and cluster management. CI/CD experience Proficiency in GitLab CI/CD, ArgoCD for automated software deployments. Infrastructure as Code (IaC) Experience with Terraform, Tofu Monitoring & Logging Familiarity with CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, or Datadog. Scripting & Automation Proficiency in Python, Shell scripting, or Golang. Incident Management & Reliability Practices Experience with SLOs, SLIs, error budgets, and chaos engineering.