Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Role Overview

• Standardize and modernize Amazon EKS platforms & AWS Serverless Suites, including all Cutting-Edge Managed Services from AWS adhering to DevOps best practices
• Provide expertise and hands on implementation of large-scale, mission critical Kubernetes workloads with High Resiliency and multi-region architecture
• Work collaboratively with 2 to 5 Site Reliability Engineers
• Champion accountability; take responsibility through actions & thoughts
• Design and implement end-end CI/CD pipelines with CDK and CodePipeline, including integrating with source control, build tools and deployment targets like CFT stacks
• Prioritize & re-align quickly to adapt to a demanding fast paced Shift Left environment
• Maximize automation to improve speed and quality while relentlessly driving low-value, repetitive work out of our operational activities
• Work with our application delivery teams to design and build scalable and maintainable solutions for our customers
• Enforce GitOps workflow where Git is the source of truth for EKS clusters and app state in a multi-account and multi-region environment (FluxCD/ArgoCD)
• Develop baselines for governance, consumption/cost and performance to ensure that our elastic cloud-based applications operate efficiently, securely and with zero down time
• Run Reliability Incident management processes along with Root Cause Analysis, developing Runbooks, & Self-Healing architecture
• Instill Standardization in DevOps processes across a wide range of applications

Requirements

• 6+ years of hands-on experience in public cloud specifically AWS
• 3+ years of leading SRE/DevOps teams across complex AWS ecosystems
• Deep understanding of high velocity SDLC best practices along with CI/CD & Application/infrastructure Monitoring practices to operate workloads at high scale
• Expert proficiency in Kubernetes, Terraform, AWS CDK, Lambda, API Gateway, Route53, S3, EC2, Load Balancing, DynamoDB, CloudWatch, IAM, Networking, IOT, SQS, Event Bridge, etc.
• Adept at solving & troubleshooting High volume Distributed architecture applications running on AWS
• Demonstrated ability to design, build, and maintain AWS infrastructure using AWS CDK (TypeScript preferred) with strong modular patterns (multi-stack, multi-account, multi-region)
• Strong understanding of GitOps methodologies, experience in implementing and managing multiple environments through declarative configuration management versioned in Git repos and applied via automated tools like Flux or ArgoCD
• Hands-on experience managing large-scale, production EKS clusters across multiple regions and AWS accounts
• Deep knowledge of AWS Cost optimization techniques such as Reserved Instances, Spot Instances, and Life Cycle Management
• Proven ability to build highly secure AWS Infrastructure with a security first mindset
• Proven ability to collaborate and build strong relationships with development teams including Conflict Resolutions & driving decisions/initiatives
• Strong software development background including knowledge of microservices architecture along with fluency in JavaScript, TypeScript, or Node.JS or Python
• At least one among the following AWS Certifications: AWS Solution Architect Associate, AWS Solution Architect Professional, AWS DevOps Associate, AWS DevOps Professional, Professional Kubernetes Certifications.

Tech Stack

• AWS
• Cloud
• DynamoDB
• EC2
• Flux
• IoT
• JavaScript
• Kubernetes
• Microservices
• Node.js
• Python
• SDLC
• Terraform
• TypeScript

Benefits

• Employer sponsored medical, dental and vision with a variety of coverage options
• Company provided and supplemental life insurance
• Paid vacation and sick time
• Paid company holidays
• A Spirit day to encourage and allow our employees to more easily volunteer in their community
• A 401K plan
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP) at no cost – services include telephonic counseling sessions, consultation on legal and financial matters, emotional well-being, family and caregiving
• A range of additional voluntary programs, such as spending accounts, student loan refinancing, accident insurance and more!