AWS Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

The ideal candidate will have strong hands-on experience with AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD, monitoring/observability, Linux, Python/Bash scripting, and production incident management. The engineer will work closely with development, infrastructure, security, and operations teams to improve system reliability and automate operational processes., * Design, implement, and maintain highly available and scalable infrastructure on AWS.

• Manage AWS services including EC2, EKS, ECS, S3, RDS, Lambda, VPC, IAM, CloudWatch, Route 53, and Load Balancers.
• Build and maintain infrastructure using Terraform/Terragrunt and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) best practices.
• Design, administer, and troubleshoot Kubernetes/EKS environments.
• Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, GitHub Actions, or similar tools.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning, application deployments, monitoring, and operational processes.
• Develop scripts and automation using Python, Bash, or Go.
• Implement monitoring, alerting, logging, and observability using tools such as CloudWatch, Splunk, Datadog, Dynatrace, Prometheus, and Grafana.
• Participate in 24x7 on-call rotation and respond to production incidents.
• Troubleshoot complex infrastructure, networking, application, and cloud-related issues.
• Lead incident response, root-cause analysis (RCA), and post-incident remediation activities.
• Define and improve SLOs, SLIs, SLAs, availability, latency, and reliability metrics.
• Implement auto-scaling, fault tolerance, disaster recovery, backup, and high-availability solutions.
• Identify opportunities to eliminate manual operational tasks through automation.
• Work with development teams to ensure applications are designed and deployed with reliability, scalability, and performance in mind.
• Implement AWS security best practices involving IAM, encryption, networking, secrets management, and least-privilege access.
• Monitor AWS infrastructure for performance and cost optimization opportunities.
• Create and maintain technical documentation, runbooks, operational procedures, and troubleshooting guides.

• 6+ years of experience in SRE, DevOps, Cloud Engineering, Infrastructure Engineering, or related roles.
• Strong hands-on experience with AWS.
• Strong experience with Terraform/Terragrunt.
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes/EKS.
• Strong understanding of Linux/Unix administration.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation.
• Proficiency in Python, Bash, or Go.
• Strong understanding of AWS networking, VPC, subnets, security groups, IAM, DNS, and load balancing.
• Experience with monitoring, logging, alerting, and observability.
• Strong production troubleshooting and incident-management experience.
• Experience with distributed systems, microservices, and cloud-native architectures.
• Strong understanding of high availability, scalability, resiliency, and disaster recovery.

Preferred Skills

• AWS Certified DevOps Engineer or AWS Certified Solutions Architect.
• Experience with Helm, ArgoCD, GitOps, Docker, Ansible, or CloudFormation.
• Experience with Prometheus and Grafana.
• Experience with Splunk, Datadog, Dynatrace, or New Relic.
• Experience implementing blue/green, canary, and rolling deployments.
• Experience with service mesh technologies such as Istio.
• Experience with AWS cost optimization and FinOps.
• Experience working in financial services, healthcare, telecommunications, or other highly regulated environments.
• Strong knowledge of security and compliance requirements for cloud environments.