Site Reliability Engineer

We are looking for a Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to join our Infrastructure Team and play a key role in ensuring the reliability scalability and performance of Invictis infrastructure and services. This position is based in Austin and will operate with a high degree of independence. Therefore familiarity with Invictis products architecture and operational practices is highly valued as the engineer will be expected to work in isolation while maintaining strong alignment with global teams.

In this role you will design implement and maintain resilient systems that support Invictis enterprise-scale applications. You will collaborate closely with development DevOps and security teams to optimize performance streamline infrastructure provisioning through GitOps and drive automation that enhances overall system reliability and observability.

What you will be doing:

• System Reliability & Uptime: Ensure Invictis services are highly available and resilient by designing implementing and maintaining scalable infrastructure solutions.
• Incident Response: Lead and coordinate incident management ensuring minimal downtime and clear communication across teams during production events.
• Automation & Infrastructure as Code: Design implement and maintain infrastructure provisioning pipelines using Terraform and GitOps practices ensuring consistent and auditable deployments.
• Infrastructure Ownership: Manage cloud-based infrastructure (primarily AWS) efficiently and securely optimizing cost and performance.
• Performance Optimization: Identify bottlenecks and improve service performance through tuning scaling and observability enhancements.
• Observability & Monitoring: Continuously improve product observability and monitoring; proactively contribute by creating or updating dashboards alerts and metrics. Be willing to push merge requests directly into product code to enhance observability rather than waiting for development teams to implement changes.
• Security and Compliance: Collaborate with security teams to maintain infrastructure compliance and implement best practices.
• Operational Autonomy: Act as the key SRE contact for the U.S. time zone independently managing incidents optimizations and infrastructure changes.
• Documentation & Collaboration: Maintain accurate infrastructure documentation and contribute to cross-team knowledge sharing.
  

What you bring to the table:

• Strong experience with cloud platforms (AWS preferred) and core cloud services (EC2 ECS/EKS RDS IAM etc.).
• Proficiency with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as Terraform or CloudFormation with experience integrating GitOps workflows for infrastructure provisioning.
• Hands-on experience with monitoring and observability tools such as Prometheus Grafana ELK Stack Datadog or Dynatrace.
• Strong understanding of automation pipelines for IaC and Terraform runs (not application CI/CD) emphasizing GitOps-based workflows and controlled approval processes.
• Solid understanding of networking concepts security best practices and identity management in distributed environments.
• Experience with both Linux and Windows systems administration and performance troubleshooting.
• Proficiency in scripting languages such as Python Bash or Go for automation and tooling.
• Strong familiarity with Git for version control collaboration and change management across infrastructure repositories.

Preferred Qualifications

• Prior experience with Invictis solutions (AppSec DAST scanning platforms or related SaaS infrastructure).
• Experience working in globally distributed and remote-first teams.
• Proven ability to independently troubleshoot optimize and manage production systems.
• Demonstrated history of driving observability monitoring and automation improvements across products and infrastructure.

Personal Attributes

• Strong problem-solving and analytical mindset.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills across distributed teams.
• High degree of ownership accountability and initiative.
• Adaptable and comfortable working asynchronously across time zones.
• Detail-oriented with a focus on delivering maintainable stable and well-documented systems.
• Passionate about automation visibility and continuous improvement.

Why Invicti:

Your Health & Wellness Matters:

Health Insurance: Taking care of our team goes beyond the office. We cover 100% of employee health care vision and dental premium costs. For dependents we contribute 75% of the health care and 50% vision/dental premium cost so you can be sure that you and your family are in the best possible health. Coverage is effective your first day.
Employee Assistance Program: Emotional Support Counseling services - 24/7 Life Coaching Dependent Care Elder Care Financial & Legal Support Wellness Coaching New Parent Support and more
Parental Leave16 week paid leave for birthing parent recovery. 4 week paid leave for non-birthing/bonding parent
401(k) Savings Plan: 50% up to 6% company match with 100% annual cliff vesting

We Value Adult/Life Balance:

Hybrid Flexible Schedule
Discretionary Time Off: Take time away from work when you need it (subject to manager approval). No accruals no fixed allocation of vacation days
Quarterly Thrive-Wellness Days: One extra vacation day per quarter where the entire company takes a break from normal daily activities to refresh and rejuvenate
Volunteerism Time Off: 5 days of paid time off each year to participate in the volunteer activities of your choice

We Value You:
Employee Recognition: Ongoing recognition & rewards. A Culture that emphasizes personal and professional growth

At Invicti we embrace diversity and individuality in all forms. Discrimination has no place here - regardless of race religion gender age ability sexual orientation or any other aspect that makes you unique. Were all about creating a space where everyone feels valued and included. So come as you are and join us in shaping the future of our industry.