Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. IDEXX is an innovation-focused healthcare company whose software supports veterinary reference laboratories and global diagnostic workflows. The Senior Site Reliability Engineer will modernize cloud infrastructure, own CI/CD and release systems, improve platform resilience and observability, lead incident response and security practices, and guide engineering teams toward operational excellence.
Responsibilities
- Own the design and evolution of CI/CD pipeline architecture, governance, and standards
- Modernize and automate deployment pipelines for Kotlin-based AWS Lambda services using GitHub Actions
- Reduce manual deployment effort through automation
- Leverage AI tools where appropriate to improve productivity and system quality
- Lead implementation of disaster recovery, high availability, and fault-tolerant designs
- Automate infrastructure provisioning and lifecycle management to reduce manual work
- Build and maintain end-to-end observability (metrics, logging, tracing, alerting)
- Establish effective alerting that reduces noise and ensures high-signal incident detection
- Proactively identify and address system risks before they impact customers
- Lead incident response in shared on-call rotation (triage, mitigation, communication)
- Drive root cause analysis and blameless postmortems to prevent recurrence
- Own and govern the release process, including deployment gates and approvals
- Review and approve deployment plans to ensure quality and stability
- Optimize the build and release lifecycle for speed, consistency, and reliability
- Manage cross-repo dependencies and versioning strategies
- Lead remediation of security vulnerabilities, collaborating with the Security team as needed
- Establish processes to proactively prevent new security risks
- Embed secure development and deployment practices into pipelines
- Guide the development team toward reliability and security best practices
- Proactively identify issues, drive visibility, and ensure timely resolution with engineers
- Stay up to date with industry trends and emerging technologies to drive innovation
- Communicate technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
Skills
- 7+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, Platform Engineering, or similar roles focused on
- CI/CD, cloud infrastructure, and system reliability
- Strong experience with: AWS Serverless architectures, Terraform and CloudFormation, CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions preferred), Azure Entra ID, OAuth2, OpenID Connect, Maven build tooling, Git-based version control workflows (GitHub preferred)
- Proven ability to Design and optimize deployment pipelines
- Troubleshoot complex distributed systems
- Make data-driven decisions
- Translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions
- Strong communication, collaboration, and organizational skills
- Understanding of system design patterns for reliability and scalability
- Experience with Kotlin or Java development
- Experience with NoSQL databases (for example DynamoDB) and relational databases (for example PostgreSQL)
- Experience working in Agile or Scrum environments
- Familiarity with artifact management tools such as JFrog Artifactory
- Experience defining and managing SLAs, SLOs, and SLIs
- Experience with distributed tracing tools such as AWS X-Ray or OpenTelemetry
- Experience using AI tools or AI agents to improve development, automation, or operational Workflows
- Location: We prefer those that are driving distance to our Westbrook, Maine location who will have the flexible requirement of only 8 days per month on-site. Alternatively, we are also open to those further away in NH or MA who can visit less frequently
Benefits
- Opportunity for annual cash bonus
- Health / Dental / Vision Benefits Day-One
- 5% matching 401k
- Financial support
- Pet insurance
- Mental health resources
- Volunteer paid days off
- Employee stock program
- Foundation donation matching
- Flexible requirement of only 8 days per month on-site for those driving distance to the Westbrook, Maine location
- Those further away in NH or MA can visit less frequently
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