Site Reliability Engineer

Key Responsibilities

• Build and scale observability systems:

  Design and maintain infrastructure for collecting, aggregating, and analyzing telemetry data (metrics, logs, and traces).

• Enable actionable insights:

  Develop dashboards, alerts, and visualizations that turn raw data into clear, meaningful information for engineers, SREs, and business stakeholders.

• Collaborate across teams:

  Partner with engineering, operations, and SRE teams to define SLIs/SLOs and improve visibility into system performance and health.

• Drive best practices:

  Advocate for and support consistent instrumentation, effective alerting, and strong observability practices across engineering teams.

• Optimize systems and tools:

  Continuously assess performance, usage, and cost of observability tools, identifying opportunities for improvement and efficiency.

• Automate:

  Engineer capabilities that will drive the adoption of SRE principles and best practices into what is deployed within the Nexxen environment.

• Improve:

  In collaboration with engineering teams develop plans to improve the reliability of applications and infrastructure and assist these teams with the engineering of these improvements.

• Support incident response:

  Participate in and help improve the incident response process, reducing MTTR and contributing to post-incident reviews and root cause analysis.

What Were Looking For

Technical Skills

• Programming experience

  in languages like Go, Python, Java, or Node.js. Able to contribute tools and advise on application-level instrumentation improvements.

• Observability tooling expertise

  within these tools:
• LGTM (Loki, Grafana, Tempo, Mimr)
• Datadog
• Cloudwatch
• Prometheus
• Pagerduty
• ClickStack
• VictoriaMetrics
• Groundcover
• Libre
• Zabbix

• Cloud experience

  with AWS and services like EC2, EKS, ECS, VPC networking

• Containers & orchestration

  : Familiarity with Docker and Kubernetes.

• Infrastructure as Code & automation:

  Experience with tools like Terraform, Ansible, Chef, or SCCM to manage observability infrastructure at scale.

• Linux systems knowledge:

  Strong understanding of Linux, shell scripting, and the storage/networking stack.

• Tracing:

  Deep understanding of tracing technology and OpenTelemetry

• SRE Practices

  : SLIs, SLOs, Error Budgets, and Failure Domains