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# Site Reliability Engineer II

- **Company:** Blink Health
- **Location:** Pittsburgh, PA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Amazon Web Services, Proxy Servers, Microsoft Azure, Bash Shell, Command-Line Interface, Cloud Computing, Computer Networks, Linux, Network Address Translation, Domain Name System (DNS), Monitoring of Systems, Python (Programming Language), Key Management, Reliability Engineering, Ansible, TCP/IP, Data Logging, Pulumi, Load Balancing, ReactJS, Cloudformation, Containerization, Information Technology, Terraform, Vulnerability Analysis, Golang, Microservices
- **Published:** October 9, 2026
- **Apply:** https://startup.jobs/senior-site-reliability-engineer-ii-blink-health-10354981

## About the Role

* Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.
 * 5+ years of experience in site reliability engineering, infrastructure engineering, or platform engineering roles, with demonstrated impact at scale., * Expert-level, methodical troubleshooting across the entire stack, from application to kernel to network.
 * Strong command-line proficiency and deep expertise in Linux systems and operating system fundamentals.
 * Advanced understanding of networking concepts including load balancing, proxies, DNS, TCP/IP, NAT, and service-to-service communication., * Experience working across multiple languages (e.g., Python, Go, Bash, and familiarity troubleshooting application stacks such as React or similar). Strong proficiency in at least one.
 * Strong track record of automating repetitive and complex operational work to reduce toil and increase reliability.
 * Ability to design and build internal tools (Python or Go) that standardize and scale IT practices.
 * Comfortable operating in an agile environment, with disciplined testing and quality practices., * Experience with cloud platforms (AWS preferred, GCP/Azure acceptable), particularly managed services and production-grade architectures.
 * Expertise in Kubernetes and container orchestration (EKS, Helm), including lifecycle management and operational best practices.
 * Proven experience designing and implementing observability systems, including metrics, logging, tracing, dashboards, and alerting.
 * Deep understanding of container technologies, security scanning, secrets management, dynamic configuration, and microservices architectures.
 * Familiarity with service meshes and advanced traffic management concepts., * Experience designing and maintaining company-wide IaC codebases using tools such as Terraform, Pulumi, CloudFormation, or Ansible.
 * Ability to think holistically about infrastructure design, cost, reliability, security, and long-term maintainability.

## Description

* Define and drive observability strategy for IT system and process health, performance, and reliability, including alerting quality, dashboards, and service health indicators.
 * Design and implement software-driven solutions within the IT domain, automating manual processes and eliminating operational complexity and toil.
 * Act as a technical leader and force multiplier, helping set priorities and influencing decision-making across the entire IT team - support, systems and networks.
 * Take ownership of large, ambiguous initiatives, driving them from concept to delivery while aligning stakeholders across IT, engineering and partner teams.
 * Proactively identify systemic risks and reliability gaps in both tools and processes, recommending and leading platform upgrades and architectural improvements before they become incidents.
 * Provide technical mentorship, architecture guidance, and high-quality design and code reviews for engineers across IT teams.
 * Lead by example in documentation and knowledge sharing, ensuring systems and processes are well-understood and not dependent on individual ownership.
 * Participate in and help mature incident response, escalation practices, and post-incident learning across the organization.