Senior Site Reliability Engineer I

What you'll do:

• Be an example of the best practices your team and adjacent teams should follow when building and maintaining our infrastructure.
• Run and orchestrate our infrastructure with Terraform, Github Actions, Kubernetes and more in AWS. 
• Guide and mentor less-experienced team members (mid and junior-level).
• Deliver highly scalable, resilient, and cost-effective infrastructure solutions for our customers to use.
• Employ a proactive approach to problem-solving (driving for measurable results, leading by example, using log data to identify problem areas and propose solutions, etc).
• Collaborate on project milestones and help drive the team to break down large initiatives into iterative work items and drive ownership of task generation and ticket management.
• Communicate and collaborate cross-functionally with technical stakeholders to drive alignment with our infrastructure solutions across the organization. 
• Work as a representative of SRE on cross-functional teams to help work through new ideas, brainstorming solutions, and aligning with platform standards.  
• Participate in our on-call rotation and contribute to incident reviews.
• Develop and perform the necessary testing required to ensure that our infrastructure and supporting systems are performing to industry standards and meet the quality level our customers expect. This includes identifying, monitoring and measuring  KPIs as a way to ensure our infrastructure is performing to expectations. 
• Ensure timely execution of technical project work against the expected milestones as part of our cycle planning process.
• Work with a sense of urgency to find solutions to problems quickly with an iterative approach.
• Continuously evolve our platform so that our customers can self-service their needs. 
• Be a nimble learner whereby you view mistakes as opportunities to learn, enjoy the challenge of unfamiliar tasks, and seek new approaches to solve problems.
• Be a collaborator whereby you facilitate an open dialogue with a wide variety of contributors and stakeholders, balance their own interests with others’ and promote high visibility of shared contributions to goals.

What you should have:

• 5+ years experience as a Senior Infrastructure Engineer, Site Reliability Engineer or equivalent role.
• Demonstrated hands-on experience architecting, implementing, and maintaining robust, scalable, and secure cloud infrastructure while leveraging best practices and driving innovative solutions.
• Demonstrated hands-on experience with Go, Python, or similar languages.
• Demonstrated hands-on experience managing and optimizing containerized deployments in cloud-based environments.
• Demonstrated experience using Terraform or similar IaC technologies.
• Experience with container orchestration platforms such as Kubernetes or ECS.
• Experience with sharing knowledge across teams to create a self-serving platform.
• Strong experience implementing and managing monitoring solutions; setting up comprehensive alerts to ensure quick response to any performance issues or downtime.
• Direct experience using KPIs to drive observability, monitoring, and alerting to better serve ourselves and our customers. 
• Demonstrated focus on iterative development practices and incrementally delivering value over time. 

Nice to haves:

• Demonstrated hands-on experience configuring and managing environments in AWS.
• Experience running scalable and reliable services within Kubernetes.
• Demonstrated hands-on experience developing and maintaining Helm charts for deployment manifests in Kubernetes.
• Familiarity optimizing infrastructure for AI/ML workloads.
• Familiarity with GitHub Actions and CI/CD deployment practices.