SRE LEAD

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.