Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

PeopleFinders.com is a premier online service for locating and verifying people and businesses. They are seeking a highly skilled Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to join their infrastructure team, focusing on maintaining and optimizing cloud infrastructure and ensuring platform performance and security.

Responsibilities:

• Architect, maintain, and troubleshoot AWS cloud infrastructure, including VPCs, subnets, routing, security groups, and other cloud‑native networking components
• Manage and optimize Kubernetes environments running Dockerized applications, ensuring reliability, performance, and scalability
• Build, maintain, and improve GitLab CI/CD pipelines for automated testing, deployments, and infrastructure workflows
• Configure and manage CDNs—particularly Cloudflare—and implement advanced bot mitigation and anti‑scraping controls
• Implement cloud-focused monitoring, alerting, and observability using modern tooling (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch)
• Collaborate with engineering teams to support deployments, diagnose issues, and enhance production readiness
• Improve infrastructure reliability and operability through automation, GitOps practices, and infrastructure-as-code
• Investigate production incidents with urgency and deliver corrective actions under tight timelines
• Work across systems, cloud networking, CI/CD, and security in a fast-moving, small-team environment
• Own complex infrastructure projects end-to-end with minimal oversight

Requirements:

• 4+ years experience as an SRE, DevOps Engineer, or Systems Engineer
• Strong hands-on experience with Linux (Ubuntu/CentOS) and Windows Server administration
• Proficiency with Docker and containerized application architectures
• Deep experience building and maintaining GitLab CI/CD pipelines
• Solid understanding of CDNs (Cloudflare, Fastly, Akamai, etc.) and techniques for blocking or mitigating scraping/bot traffic
• Strong networking fundamentals (DNS, TLS, routing, firewalls, load balancing)
• Familiarity with infrastructure security and best practices for securing public-facing systems
• Experience with monitoring and logging tools (BetterStack, DataDog, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, etc.)
• Ability to work in a small team, adapt quickly, and manage multiple priorities
• Strong sense of ownership and the ability to deliver results under tight timelines
• Experience with Kubernetes or orchestration platforms
• Knowledge of IaC tools such as Terraform, Ansible, or Pulumi
• Scripting/programming in Bash, Python, or Go
• Experience with WAFs, bot mitigation systems, and rate-limiting strategies
• Familiarity with Zero Trust concepts or modern access-management systems
• Hands-on experience with Cloudflare, including firewall rules, bot management, workers, and advanced caching strategies
• Experience securing and protecting high-value web applications from scraping, automated attacks, and data-extraction threats
• Demonstrated success working in a fully remote or distributed engineering team
• Background supporting organizations with fully cloud-managed infrastructure
• Excellent communication and cross-team collaboration skills
• Ability to work independently and make sound technical decisions
• Strong problem-solving abilities and eagerness to dive into complex issues
• Flexibility to pivot technologies or priorities as business needs evolve