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# Senior Site Reliability Engineer, AWS/Datacenter Hybrid

- **Company:** Cognitiv Corp.
- **Location:** Bellevue, WA, United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $160,000.0 - $210,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Amazon Web Services, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, Bash Shell, Data Centers, Disaster Recovery, Python (Programming Language), Reliability Engineering, Ansible, Prometheus, Software Engineering, Datadog, HybridCloud, Kubernetes, Bare Metal, Terraform
- **Published:** September 3, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.techcareers.com/job.asp?id=3375685581&tx=KP1515FFG&pt=1&aff=0B19D771-A501-4A5E-8338-2A822B784D54&utm_source=Job%20Feed&utm_medium=textkernel&utm_campaign=DE&utm_term=0B19D771-A501-4A5E-8338-2A822B784D54

## About the Role

* Deep knowledge of AWS infrastructure, networking, and management practices.
 * 10+ years of experience in operations, software engineering, or as an SRE.
 * Working knowledge of modern datacenter practices, with the ability to support multi-DC deployments as needed.
 * Proven experience with infrastructure as code
 * Proficiency with Python and Bash.
 * An independent self-starter who looks at the big picture, takes ownership, and independently seeks out new challenges with creative solutions.
 * A constructive, supportive team player, with good communication and interpersonal skills., * AWS certifications (e.g., Solutions Architect, SysOps Administrator)
 * Experience with hybrid cloud/on-prem solutions.
 * Hands-on experience building out datacenters.
 * Willingness and interest to travel 1-2 times per quarter.

## Description

Location: This position will be in our Bellevue, WA office with a hybrid work schedule of 3 days in office (Mon/Tue/Wed) and 2 days remote (Thursday/Friday)., * Design, implement, and maintain infrastructure across our AWS environment, serving as the primary owner of our cloud footprint.

 * Evaluate our existing AWS architecture (compute, networking, security) and ensure we are set up for long-term scalability and growth.
 * Work across engineering and product teams to scope projects tightly to core business requirements.
 * Drive engineering-wide efforts to improve company service management around deployments, monitoring, and disaster recovery.
 * Support and help maintain our co-located datacenter deployments alongside our datacenter-focused SRE, providing coverage as needed.

Our Stack

 * Hosting: AWS and Equinix colocation.
 * Monitoring: Datadog (migrating off Prometheus).
 * Infrastructure as Code: Terraform and Ansible.
 * Compute: Primarily raw EC2 instances and bare-metal machines, with a small footprint of Kubernetes.


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