Staff Site Reliability Engineer

ASCENDING Inc. is hiring a Staff Site Reliability Engineer to support a premier national healthcare provider’s cloud infrastructure team. The role focuses on building, maintaining, and operating AWS and Azure cloud platforms, automating deployments, ensuring delivery-environment reliability, and supporting monitoring, Kubernetes, and on-call operations.

Responsibilities:

• Build, maintain, and operate IaaS and PaaS infrastructure in AWS and Azure commercial and government clouds
• Engineer and maintain deployment automation/tooling (CI/CD pipelines, scripting, deployment platforms), converting repeat manual work into durable automation
• Own reliability of non-prod and production delivery environments: keep release environments healthy, respond to operational issues impacting delivery, and coordinate environment refresh/restore activities
• Utilize Kubernetes for container orchestration and management, ensuring scalability, reliability, and high availability of the system
• Implement robust monitoring, logging, and alerting mechanisms to ensure system performance and availability
• Mentor and provide technical guidance to junior team members, fostering a culture of continuous learning and professional growth
• Support software and/or cloud-infrastructure in an on-call rotation basis when needed

Requirements:

• United States Citizenship
• Strong experience working within the AWS or Azure cloud as a cloud engineer or DevOps engineer
• Strong experience in AWS and Azure, and most of those associated services
• Terraform is heavily used for IaC and that experience is a must have
• Must have hands-on Terraform skills since it is a heavy Terraform environment
• Strong experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform)
• Expert knowledge of deploying Production grade applications in AWS and Azure
• Familiarity with IDEs and Source Control tools like Github or Gitlab
• Solid awareness of networking and internet protocols
• 8+ years of experience in automated cloud infrastructure
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field
• 8+ years of experience with cloud computing platforms with Azure including experience with serverless architectures, containers, and orchestration
• Any type of a Computer Science or Object Oriented Coding background
• FedRAMP experience is a big plus