Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Role Overview

• Design and implement high-availability, fault-tolerant architectures across on-prem and cloud platforms (AWS)
• Lead multi-region DR planning, implementation, and testing, including RTO/RPO definition and validation
• Define and enforce SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets to balance reliability with delivery velocity
• Drive self-healing automation and proactive remediation strategies
• Build and maintain infrastructure using Terraform and configuration management tools (e.g., Chef)
• Develop automation to eliminate manual operational tasks (TOIL reduction)
• Create reusable modules, pipelines, and guardrails for standardized deployments
• Automate certificate lifecycle management, key rotation, and security updates
• Design and implement end-to-end observability (metrics, logs, traces, synthetic monitoring)
• Build dashboards, alerts, and runbooks to enable fast detection and resolution of incidents
• Improve signal-to-noise ratio in alerting to reduce operational fatigue
• Perform root cause analysis (RCA) and lead post-incident reviews with actionable follow-ups
• Engineer and operate platforms on AWS, including services such as: EKS, EC2, RDS/Aurora, Lambda, API Gateway, CloudFront, WAF, ALB/NLB, CloudWatch, X-Ray, IAM, Secrets Manager
• Lead cloud migrations and modernization initiatives, including legacy system refactoring
• Implement secure networking patterns (VPCs, private subnets, controlled egress)
• Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks through testing and analysis
• Drive FinOps initiatives to optimize infrastructure cost without compromising reliability
• Implement capacity planning and autoscaling strategies
• Design and support CI/CD pipelines enabling safe, repeatable deployments
• Embed reliability practices into the SDLC (testing, rollout strategies, rollback)
• Partner with development teams to improve operability of applications before production
• Partner with security and legal teams to meet regulatory and compliance requirements (e.g., data residency, GDPR-related controls)
• Implement secure access controls, secrets management, and encryption best practices
• Participate in security reviews, audits, and risk assessments
• Act as a technical leader and mentor for engineers transitioning into SRE roles
• Influence architecture and design decisions across multiple teams
• Communicate effectively with engineering leadership, product owners, and non-technical stakeholders
• Drive a culture of operational excellence, blameless postmortems, and continuous improvement

Requirements

• 3+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, Platform Engineering, DevOps, or Systems Engineering
• Strong programming experience in Python, Java, or similar languages
• Deep experience with Linux/Unix systems
• Hands-on expertise with AWS and cloud-native architectures
• Proven experience with Terraform and Infrastructure as Code
• Strong understanding of networking, security, and distributed systems
• Experience operating mission-critical, high-volume platforms
• Preferred: Experience in financial services or highly regulated environments
• Preferred: Experience with EKS/Kubernetes at scale
• Preferred: Familiarity with Chaos Engineering and resilience testing
• Preferred: Experience leading cloud cost optimization (FinOps) initiatives

Tech Stack

• AWS
• Chef
• Cloud
• Distributed Systems
• EC2
• Java
• Kubernetes
• Linux
• Python
• Ray
• SDLC
• Terraform
• Unix

Benefits

• Bonus Eligible
• Paid sick leave in compliance with the Colorado Healthy Families and Workplaces Act
• Comprehensive benefit offerings available at www.broadridgebenefits.com