Principal Site Reliability Engineer

We are looking for aSenior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)/ Platform Engineer / DevOps Engineerwithdeep expertise in Kubernetesto design, implement, and manage high-availability, scalable systems primarily on AWS EKS. In this role, you will leverage tools likeTerraform,ArgoCD, andGitHub Actionsto automate infrastructure and workflows while implementing progressive deployment practices (e.g., blue-green, canary, or feature flagging). This position requires someone who can troubleshoot complex systems, implement robust monitoring and guardrails for databases and applications, and maintain a focus on optimizing performance, reliability, and cost-efficiency.

This position is work from home within the US.

Kubernetes Management & Troubleshooting:

• Design and manage Kubernetes clusters (AWS EKS) with a focus on networking, scalability, security, and reliability.
• Troubleshoot complex, cross-system issues involving Kubernetes, databases, networking, and cloud infrastructure.
• Implement and maintain guardrails to ensure consistent and secure operation of Kubernetes workloads.

Infrastructure Design & Automation:

• Architect, build, and maintain highly available, fault-tolerant systems using AWS services.
• Use Terraform to define infrastructure as code, enabling scalable, repeatable, and secure deployments.
• Automate provisioning, configuration, and updates for cloud infrastructure with a focus on GitOps principles using ArgoCD and GitHub Actions.

System Guardrails & Application Monitoring:

• Set up and enforce guardrails for databases, infrastructure, and applications, ensuring consistency and adherence to best practices.
• Implement robust application and infrastructure monitoring using tools like Prometheus, Grafana, and potentially Datadog.
• Ensure proactive alerting and predictive monitoring to detect issues before they impact users.

Progressive Deployment & CI/CD:

• Design and implement deployment strategies like blue-green deployments, canary releases, and feature-flag-based rollouts.
• Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines to streamline application delivery, testing, and deployment.

Collaboration & Best Practices:

• Partner with development teams to embed reliability and security best practices into the application lifecycle.
• Drive a culture of operational excellence, ensuring teams build for reliability, scalability, and security from the ground up.

Resilience & Continuous Improvement:

• Conduct post-incident reviews to identify root causes and prevent future incidents.
• Implement practices like chaos engineering to test and enhance system resilience.

Networking & Security:

• Design and manage secure networking solutions, including AWS VPCs, Kubernetes networking, and firewalls.
• Ensure compliance with security best practices and industry standards.

Kubernetes Expertise:

• Deep hands-on experience managing Kubernetes clusters (AWS EKS or similar) with a focus on networking, scaling, and security.
• Strong troubleshooting skills across Kubernetes workloads, infrastructure, and networking.

Infrastructure as Code & Automation:

• Expertise in Terraform for infrastructure as code.
• Proven experience with ArgoCD and GitHub Actions for GitOps workflows and CI/CD pipelines.

Monitoring & Observability:

• Proficiency in Prometheus, Grafana, and incident management workflows.
• Experience implementing application-level monitoring and tracing to identify performance bottlenecks.

Guardrails & System Security:

• Demonstrated ability to set up guardrails for databases, Kubernetes clusters, and applications to ensure reliable and secure operations.

Cloud Expertise:

• Advanced knowledge of AWS services, including EKS, EC2, CloudWatch, Route53, Aurora, and S3.
• Familiarity with auto-scaling, load balancing, and cloud cost optimization.

Programming & Scripting Skills:

• Strong proficiency in Python, Go, or Bash for scripting and automation tasks.

Systems Troubleshooting:

• Proven ability to troubleshoot complex, distributed systems across cloud infrastructure, databases, and networking.

Nice-to-Have:

• Experience with other cloud platforms such as GCP or Azure.
• Familiarity with logging and observability tools like ELK, Loki, or Graylog.
• Exposure to chaos engineering and resilience testing.
• Knowledge of HashiCorp Vault, SOPS, and secrets management best practices.
• Expertise in database systems, including setup, scaling, and optimization.