Sr. Site Reliability Engineer, Security

Location: Remote - US

Department: Engineering Ops

The Engineering Operations group at CentralReach builds the underlying technologies that power our Public and Private Cloud Platforms worldwide. The group is responsible for storage, data infrastructure, IT, observability systems, DevOps, SRE, provisioning, compute, orchestration platform, internal tools, internal platforms (laptops, networks, systems etc.) and services - all the components that make up the CentralReach Platform. 

If you have a passion for the future, enjoy and thrive in an agile, fast-moving, ever-changing startup environment, welcome and take on technical challenges of all shapes and sizes, have excellent interpersonal skill and sense of humor and enjoy rolling up your sleeves and jumping in, then read on!  

As a Sr. SRE, you will work closely with the key stakeholders in Software Engineering to drive adoption of modern reliability practices like SLOs, error budget policies, actionable alerts, incident retrospectives, chaos testing, and end-to-end ownership.

Location & Interview Process
We prefer candidates who can work in a hybrid capacity from one of our corporate offices in Holmdel, New Jersey or Fort Lauderdale, Florida. However, we will consider remote candidates located in other U.S. states for the right individual.

As part of our hiring and security protocols, candidates hired into fully remote roles are required to participate in an in-person interview or face-to-face meeting prior to their first day of employment.

Key Accountabilities: 

• Responsible for availability, latency, performance, efficiency, monitoring/observability, emergency response, capacity planning, setting and maintaining SLOs, SLIs and Error Budgets, creating dashboards. 

• Analyze, troubleshoot and resolve operational challenges contributing to defined SLO's. 

• Manage site stability, performance, reliability, and maintain uptime for production environments. 

• Develop a fully automated multi-environment observability stack based on the existing system and extend it to predict capacity needs based on the usage patterns. 

• Strive for automation to reduce toil and increase development velocity. 

• Perform application-specific production support, incident management, change management, problem management, RCAs, and service restoration as needed. 

• Identify changes for the product architecture from the reliability, performance and availability perspective with a data driven approach. 

• Document resolution run books and standard operating procedures. 

• Actively look for opportunities to improve the availability and performance of the system by applying the learnings from monitoring and observation. 

• Collaborate with software development teams in the release management process and to shape the future roadmap and establish strong operational readiness across teams. 

• Implementation of reliability and observability tools (like New Relic, Prometheus, Grafana etc.,) 

• Collaborates with Security team and other platform engineering teams to build reliable, maintainable, and scalable solutions that improve our security posture. 

Desired Skills and Experience: 

• Strong background as a SRE supporting a 24x7 highly available production environment for a SaaS or cloud service provider. 

• Solid experience with Monitoring/APM/Observability tools (Splunk, New Relic etc.) 

• Experience implementing observability plans around logs, metrics, and traces. 

• Experience in an agile development team developing software. 

• Experience with cloud infrastructure environments, preferably AWS, and Infrastructure as code (Terraform, CloudFormation). 

• Extensive experience with Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, CI/CD and config management tools like Ansible, Chef. 

• Strong experience with containerization technology and/or Kubernetes. 

• Experience with Release automation, system administration, configuration management. 

• Experience with programming languages (Java, Python, Go, etc.).  

• Strong understanding of Linux, Windows, software development, systems, networking, and cloud concepts. 

• Strong interpersonal and teaming skills - ability to set and enforce process and influence engineers who are not direct reports. 

• Strong analytical and programming skills (Python, Go, Java etc.). 

• Deep understanding around best practices for modern cloud security. 

• Proven experience building observability for security concerns, such as privilege escalations and bot detection.