Job Description:
• Lead incident response and develop sustainable on-call practices, including runbooks, blameless postmortems, and continuous improvement to reduce MTTR
• Build and maintain self-service observability tools (Datadog, Prometheus, ELK) for proactive monitoring and troubleshooting
• Create and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform or CloudFormation for consistent, secure AWS environments
• Partner with development teams to architect resilient, scalable infrastructure for critical components like databases, networking, async workflows, and data pipelines
• Design and implement robust CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions) with advanced deployment strategies (blue/green, canary)
• Drive best practices in reliability and performance early in the design phase to future-proof January’s systems
Requirements:
• Proven experience leading incident response and postmortem processes for high-availability production systems
• Deep expertise in designing highly available architectures (EC2, Fargate, auto-scaling, health checks, graceful degradation)
• Strong experience with AWS cloud infrastructure and IaC tools (Terraform, CloudFormation)
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD automation using GitHub Actions or equivalent tools
• Proficiency in observability and monitoring stacks (Datadog, Prometheus, ELK)
• Solid scripting/programming skills in Python (for automation, tooling, and debugging)
• Excellent communication and documentation skills, with the ability to collaborate across engineering and platform teams
Benefits:
• Remote role (NYC-based preferred for hybrid collaboration)
• Opportunity to build and own the entire SRE practice for a growing FinTech startup
• Fast-paced, innovative environment working on AI-forward consumer finance products