Key skills
PythonJavaGoBashAIAWSTerraformKubernetesDockerJenkinsGitHub ActionsGitLab CIAnsibleEKSArgoCDFluxEC2LambdaS3RDSCloudFrontIAMCloudWatchAPI GatewayPostgreSQLMySQLPrometheusGrafanaGitHubGitLabGitOpsIstioLinkerdService MeshCDNLoad BalancingSaaSCI/CDFirewall
About this role
Vimo is a leader in transforming government IT infrastructure with its innovative SaaS and AI technology. They are seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to ensure the reliability and performance of their production platform, which supports critical services for state governments. The role involves designing automation, monitoring service levels, and collaborating with various teams to enhance system reliability.
Responsibilities:
- Design, build, and maintain the tooling, automation, and infrastructure that keeps Vimo’s production services highly available and performant
- Define, implement, and monitor Service Level Objectives (SLOs), Service Level Indicators (SLIs), and error budgets for critical services
- Build and improve CI/CD pipelines to enable safe, fast, and repeatable deployments with automated rollback capabilities
- Develop and operate comprehensive observability solutions—monitoring, logging, tracing, and alerting—using tools such as Loki, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/OpenSearch, and PagerDuty
- Lead incident response efforts: triage production issues in real time, coordinate cross-team resolution, and author thorough blameless postmortems with actionable follow-ups
- Identify and eliminate toil through automation; build self-healing mechanisms and runbook-driven remediation
- Manage and optimize cloud infrastructure on AWS (EC2, EKS, RDS, S3, VPC, CloudFront, Route 53, Lambda) with a focus on automation, cost efficiency and security
- Implement and maintain infrastructure-as-code using Terraform, and manage container orchestration with Kubernetes/EKS
- Perform capacity planning and load testing to ensure systems can handle peak enrollment periods and traffic surges
- Collaborate with application engineering teams on architecture reviews, resilience patterns (circuit breakers, retries, graceful degradation), and production readiness reviews
- Contribute to disaster recovery planning and testing, including automated failover and multi-region strategies
- Support compliance and security requirements (HIPAA, FedRAMP, SOC 2) by ensuring infrastructure controls are in place and auditable
- Participate in a 24/7 on-call rotation and continuously improve on-call processes to reduce alert fatigue and mean time to resolution (MTTR)
Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
- 5+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, Infrastructure Engineering, or a related systems-focused role
- Strong software engineering skills in at least one language (Python, Go, Java, or Bash) with the ability to write production-quality automation and tooling
- Deep hands-on experience with AWS cloud services (EC2, EKS, RDS, S3, VPC, IAM, Lambda, CloudWatch)
- Proficiency with container technologies (Docker) and orchestration platforms (Kubernetes/EKS)
- Solid experience with infrastructure-as-code tools, particularly Terraform
- Strong understanding of CI/CD principles and tools (Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, or similar)
- Experience with observability and monitoring platforms (Loki, Prometheus, VictoriaMetrics, Grafana, ELK/OpenSearch, PagerDuty)
- Solid understanding of networking fundamentals: TCP/IP, DNS, load balancing, CDN, TLS/SSL, and firewall configuration
- Experience with incident management processes, on-call rotations, and blameless postmortem culture
- Strong Linux/Unix systems administration and troubleshooting skills
- Experience in healthcare technology, government IT, or benefits administration platforms
- Familiarity with compliance frameworks such as HIPAA, FedRAMP, or SOC 2 and their impact on infrastructure operations
- Experience with PostgreSQL, mongo, mysql administration, performance tuning, and high-availability configurations
- Hands-on experience with chaos engineering practices and tools (Gremlin, Litmus, or equivalent)
- Experience with GitOps workflows and tools (ArgoCD, Flux)
- Knowledge of service mesh technologies (Istio, Linkerd) and API gateway patterns
- Experience with configuration management tools (Ansible, Chef, or Puppet)
- Familiarity with FinOps principles and cloud cost optimization strategies
- Experience with load testing and performance benchmarking tools (k6, Locust, JMeter)
- AWS certifications (Solutions Architect, DevOps Engineer, or SysOps Administrator)
- Experience with AWS security implementation through IaC / automation