Site Reliability Engineer

Primary Skills kubernetes,CI/CD,PostgreSQL,SECURITY,operating,The client is looking for a senior Site Reliability Engineering / Platform Engineering professional with strong hands-on experience in AWS,Linux systems,and Infrastructure-as-Code who can take full ownership of designing,and improving large-scale production systems. The role requires someone who can define and enforce architecture standards,drive reliability through SLO/SLAs,lead incident response for complex production issues,and ensure observability,and operational excellence across services. In addition to deep technical expertise in cloud infrastructure,automation scripting (Python/Go),and DevOps practices,the candidate is expected to lead cross-functional initiatives,manage end-to-end delivery of infrastructure projects,and act as the Directly Responsible Individual for critical systems. A key expectation is strong AI fluency—using AI tools to accelerate development,improve documentation,automate workflows,and guide teams on best practices—along with the ability to mentor engineers,influence stakeholders,and make independent architectural decisions in a fast-paced environment.

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Job Description What You Will Do

Technical Leadership & Architecture

• Own and drive the technical direction for your team's infrastructure systems, making architectural decisions that balance reliability, scalability, and cost.
• Design systems of moderate to high complexity using distributed systems best practices; anticipate future use cases and minimize technical debt.
• Conduct architectural reviews and advance design patterns across the organization.
• Identify and implement improvements to existing software architecture; define and expand design patterns to solve common platform problems.
• Define and enforce security best practices across team-owned systems; proactively surface gaps to senior leadership. Reliability & Operational Excellence
• Own the reliability posture of team-owned services — establish SLOs, monitor SLAs, and hold the team accountable to them.
• Lead incident response for complex, multi-service issues; systematically debug, identify root causes, and ensure issues do not recur.
• Establish standards for logging, monitoring, and operationalization across all team-owned systems.
• Foresee potential operational issues and implement preventative measures to safeguard the customer experience.
• Participate in and help lead the on-call rotation; ensure production systems are appropriately instrumented. Project & Delivery Ownership
• Act as DRI (Directly Responsible Individual) for medium-to-large SRE projects spanning months and involving cross-team collaboration.
• Partner with Engineering Managers and Product Managers to scope roadmap initiatives, break down work into actionable increments, and commit to delivery plans.
• Negotiate scope effectively when required, ensuring adjustments align with customer needs and project goals.
• Proactively identify and resolve project risks — dependencies, architectural drift, and staffing blockers — before they impact delivery. AI-Augmented Engineering
• Demonstrate mastery of AI-driven development practices and integrate them into end-to-end feature and infrastructure delivery.
• Contribute improvements to internal AI prompt libraries, coding workflows, and AI usage best practices for the team.
• Use AI tools to accelerate creation of technical documents, design proposals, runbooks, and exploration of alternative solutions.
• Stay current with emerging AI development patterns and bring relevant innovations back to the team.
• Coach teammates on responsible, efficient, and effective use of AI tools (e.g., Cursor, Augment) across the software development lifecycle. What We Are Looking For

Required Experience

• 7+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, or Platform Engineering in a production cloud environment.
• 5+ years of hands-on experience with AWS cloud services across compute, networking, storage, and security.
• 5+ years managing Linux-oriented production environments at scale.
• 5+ years using Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform, CDK, CloudFormation) and/or GitOps best practices.
• 3+ years operating and troubleshooting production Kubernetes environments.
• 3+ years applying AWS Well-Architected Framework principles across reliability, security, performance, and cost pillars.
• 3+ years in cloud security best practices including IAM, secrets management, network security, and compliance.
• 3+ years working with PostgreSQL in production: performance tuning, replication, backup, and recovery.
• Demonstrated track record of leading multi-person technical projects from scoping through delivery. Technical Skills
• Strong general programming skills; comfort writing automation scripts and tooling in Python, Go, or similar.
• Deep knowledge of observability tooling — metrics, logging, distributed tracing — and how to use them to drive reliability.
• Solid understanding of data retention, backup, and recovery processes across cloud-native systems.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines, release management, and deployment automation.
• Familiarity with service mesh, API gateway patterns, and microservices architectures. AI Fluency
• Proficient with agentic coding assistants (e.g., Cursor, Augment, GitHub Copilot) for day-to-day engineering tasks.
• Able to use AI to break down complex infrastructure tasks, accelerate design documentation, and improve code review quality.
• Ability to critically evaluate AI-generated outputs and identify when outputs are suboptimal or unsafe. Leadership & Collaboration
• Proven ability to lead technical discussions, drive alignment across engineering and product, and communicate decisions clearly to stakeholders.
• Experience mentoring junior and mid-level engineers in both technical skills and professional development.
• Able to operate independently with minimal supervision; comfortable making final technical decisions as DRI.
• Strong communication skills in English — written and verbal — with experience influencing cross-functional partners.