Description

Software Requirements

 

• AWS: strong hands-on experience with EC2, ECS/EKS, IAM, VPC, ALB/NLB, Route 53, S3, CloudWatch
• Docker
• Container orchestration using EKS/Kubernetes or ECS
• CI/CD using GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or Azure DevOps
• IaC using Terraform or CloudFormation
• Observability tools: CloudWatch, Prometheus/Grafana, ELK/OpenSearch, X-Ray
• Automation using Python and/or Bash
• Linux system administration and troubleshooting
• Networking knowledge covering DNS, TCP/IP, TLS, security groups, NACLs
  
   

Preferred

 

• Experience with CloudFront, RDS, ElastiCache, ASG
• Blue/green and canary deployment strategies
• Artifact management and release approval workflows
• Vulnerability scanning and secrets management tools
  
   

Overall Responsibilities

 

• Define and maintain SLOs, SLIs, SLAs, and error budgets
• Build and manage AWS infrastructure for scalable, highly available systems
• Operate containerized services using Docker and ECS/EKS/Kubernetes
• Implement and optimize CI/CD pipelines and deployment strategies
• Establish observability through metrics, logs, and traces
• Automate infrastructure and operations using IaC and scripting
• Manage incident response, runbooks, root-cause analysis, and remediation
• Drive performance tuning, capacity planning, and cost optimization
• Implement security best practices across infrastructure and deployments
• Partner with development teams to improve reliability by design
  
   

Technical Skills (By Category)

Programming Languages

Essential: Python, Bash

Preferred: Scripting for operational automation and diagnostics

Databases / Data Management

Essential: Operational familiarity with RDS and ElastiCache in production environments

Preferred: Performance tuning and availability planning for managed data services

Cloud Technologies

Essential: AWS including EC2, ECS/EKS, IAM, VPC, ALB/NLB, Route 53, S3, CloudWatch

Preferred: CloudFront, Auto Scaling Groups, advanced cost optimization practices

Frameworks and Libraries

Essential: Docker, Kubernetes/EKS or ECS

Preferred: Reliability patterns such as circuit breakers, retries, backoff, health checks

Development Tools and Methodologies

Essential: CI/CD, Terraform or CloudFormation, monitoring and alerting, incident response, Linux troubleshooting

Preferred: Blue/green and canary deployments, release engineering improvements

Security Protocols

Essential: Least-privilege IAM, SSL/TLS, secrets handling, vulnerability awareness

Preferred: Automated scanning, policy enforcement, and remediation workflows

Experience Requirements

 

• 7+ years of experience in SRE, DevOps, or Cloud Operations
• Experience owning production infrastructure and reliability outcomes
• Strong experience with AWS, Docker, orchestration, CI/CD, IaC, and incident response
• Experience improving MTTR, availability, and operational efficiency
• Equivalent experience in related production engineering roles will also be considered
  
   

Day-to-Day Activities

 

• Maintain AWS environments and containerized services
• Monitor system health, alerts, logs, and traces
• Improve deployment pipelines and release reliability
• Participate in incident response, troubleshooting, and postmortems
• Update runbooks, dashboards, and automation scripts
• Work with Dev, QA, and Security teams on resilience and operational readiness
• Join standups, planning sessions, reviews, and reliability discussions
  
   

Qualifications

Required

 

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or related field or equivalent practical experience
  
   

Preferred

 

• AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, or cloud operations certifications
• Ongoing learning in reliability engineering, security, and performance optimization
   

Key Skills

Education

Bachelor's degree