Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. The client is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to lead and continuously improve operational practices for AWS-based cloud infrastructure. The role designs and operates reliable, secure, scalable, and cost-effective systems, leads infrastructure and reliability initiatives, supports production operations, and drives improvements in observability, automation, incident response, and cost efficiency.
Responsibilities
- Contribute to the design, evolution, and operational health of a large-scale AWS environment, including architecture standards and best practices
- Design, implement, and optimize AWS-based infrastructure using services such as EC2, ECS/EKS, Lambda, RDS, S3, IAM, VPC, and CloudWatch
- Build and manage cloud infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, or equivalent
- Lead new platform implementations and major reliability initiatives as a subject-matter expert in AWS and SRE practices
- Monitor, analyze, and optimize cloud spend, balancing performance, reliability, and cost efficiency
- Apply and mature SRE principles to improve system availability, scalability, performance, security, and observability
- Design and implement automation to reduce operational toil and improve system efficiency
- Provide advanced operational support for cloud-hosted and hybrid platforms
- Define and improve monitoring, alerting, logging, and incident response practices
- Lead complex production incidents, perform root cause analysis, and drive corrective and preventive actions
- Mentor junior and mid-level engineers through technical guidance and best-practice leadership, without direct people management
- Collaborate with engineering, QA, security, and business teams to embed reliability throughout the software delivery lifecycle
- Ensure systems and data handling meet applicable legal, regulatory, and security requirements
- Improve production engineering processes including change and configuration management, observability, incident response, disaster recovery, capacity planning, performance tuning, and deployment automation
- Participate in a sustainable on-call rotation and help reduce alert fatigue over time
- Act as a change agent for long-term technical strategy, identifying risks, dependencies, and improvement opportunities
Skills
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience
- 7+ years of experience delivering technical solutions in production environments
- Three or more years of hands-on Site Reliability Engineering experience
- Extensive experience designing, operating, and scaling production AWS environments
- Strong expertise with Infrastructure as Code and modern cloud deployment patterns
- Proven ability to diagnose and resolve complex issues in distributed systems
- Experience leading incidents and driving post-incident improvements
- Ability to work independently, prioritize effectively, and manage multiple initiatives
- Strong written and verbal communication skills with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
- AWS certifications such as Solutions Architect, DevOps Engineer, or SysOps Administrator
- Experience working in regulated industries such as healthcare, financial services, or similar environments
- Familiarity with modern application stacks and supporting tools including CI/CD pipelines, version control systems, observability platforms, containerization, orchestration technologies, and identity and access management solutions
- Experience working in Agile or Scrum-based delivery environments
Benefits
- Remote work
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