Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Taivo is hiring a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to help build a unified, scalable platform foundation. The role focuses on Kubernetes and cloud-native environments, observability, cross-cloud integration, infrastructure automation, self-service tooling, and cloud cost optimization.

Responsibilities:

• Platform Engineering: Design and maintain our core Kubernetes and Cloud Native environments within GCP, AWS, and Azure, ensuring high availability, scalability, security, and seamless deployment patterns
• Observability & Reliability: Implement a comprehensive observability stack to provide deep insights into system health, performance, and security posture
• Cross-Cloud Strategy: While GCP is our primary home, you will provide expertise in integrating and bridging legacy or specialized workloads in Azure and AWS
• Automation & Lifecycle: Build automated, repeatable processes for provisioning and deprovisioning infrastructure, reducing manual toil to near zero. You will standardize observability and cost reporting workflows
• The "Rails" Philosophy: Develop self-service tools that empower DevOps and Engineering teams to manage their own tool configurations while remaining compliant with Taivo security standards
• Optimization: Audits multi-cloud spend, consolidates SaaS observability licenses, and optimize cloud resources

Requirements:

• A minimum of 7 years in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, or Platform Engineering roles
• Expert-level Kubernetes orchestration and containerization (Docker/Containerd)
• GCP Professional Cloud Architect or equivalent experience (IAM, VPCs, GKE, Cloud Operations)
• Deep proficiency in Terraform, CDK, or Pulumi
• Proven experience with Azure/AWS/GCP for hybrid-cloud connectivity and migrations
• Scripting/Coding: Proficiency in Go, Python, or similar for tooling and automation
• Experience navigating complex multi-cloud environments
• Experience with observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, or Datadog to drive SLIs/SLOs
• Proven aptitude to learn new technologies and tools
• Curious and self-starter by nature
• Candidates must be physically located and legally authorized to work in one of the following states: AZ, AR, CA, CO, CT, FL, GA, IL, IN, KS, ME, MI, MN, MO, MT, NV, NH, NC, OH, OK, OR, PA, SC, TN, TX, UT, VA, WA, and WI
• You have deep experience managing production-grade clusters (GKE preferred) and understand the intricacies of service meshes, networking, and container security