Reliability Engineer | AWS Cloud, Containerization, CICD, Monitoring, Security & Incidence Response

Job Summary
Synechron is seeking an experienced Reliability Engineer to strengthen our cloud-native systems stability scalability and this role you will own AWS infrastructure containerized workloads CI/CD pipelines and observability frameworks. Your efforts will ensure high availability operational efficiency and security in a complex enterprise environment. Collaborating with DevOps Development QA and Security teams you will drive automation incident management and optimization to support the organizations digital and operational goals.

Software Requirements

• Required: AWS (EC2 ECS/EKS VPC IAM ALB/NLB Route 53 S3 CloudWatch) Docker Terraform or CloudFormation Python/Bash scripting monitoring tools (CloudWatch Prometheus Grafana ELK/OpenSearch X-Ray)

• Preferred: Kubernetes (EKS or other) Jenkins or Azure DevOps Blue/Green and Canary deployment tools Secrets management tools vulnerability scanning tools

• Experience level: Proven hands-on expertise owning cloud infrastructure and automation in production environments

Overall Responsibilities

• Define and monitor SLOs SLIs error budgets and reliability strategies aligning with organizational targets

• Manage and optimize AWS infrastructure including compute storage network and security components

• Containerize orchestrate and operate services using Docker and Kubernetes or ECS/EKS

• Develop and improve CI/CD pipelines to enable continuous delivery with blue/green and canary deployment practices

• Implement and maintain observability solutionsmetrics logs tracesusing tools like CloudWatch Prometheus Grafana and ELK stack

• Automate operational tasks through Infrastructure as Code (Terraform CloudFormation) and scripting

• Establish incident management practices including on-call support runbooks root cause analysis and postmortems

• Drive system performance tuning capacity planning and cost management initiatives

• Enforce security best practices such as IAM least privilege secrets management SSL/TLS and vulnerability assessments

Technical Skills (By Category)

• Programming Languages:

  • Required: Python Bash scripting

  • Preferred: Go Ruby or other scripting languages for automation

• Databases/Data Management:

  • Familiarity with AWS RDS Redis/ElastiCache and storage services (S3 EFS)

• Cloud Technologies:

  • Required: AWS core services infrastructure deployment and management

• Frameworks and Libraries:

  • Experience with cloud-native automation frameworks monitoring and logging tools

• Development Tools & Methodologies:

  • CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions Jenkins Azure DevOps) version control (Git) containerization (Docker) orchestration (Kubernetes/EKS)

• Security Protocols:

  • Knowledge of TLS/SSL IAM policies service mesh security secrets management (HashiCorp Vault AWS Secrets Manager)

Experience Requirements

• 7 years in SRE DevOps or cloud operations with direct production responsibilities

• Hands-on experience managing AWS infrastructure containerized workloads and CI/CD pipelines

• Demonstrable experience with observability incident response and automation in enterprise environments

• Industry experience in finance banking fintech or other regulated sectors is preferred

• Alternative pathways: Extensive experience in large-scale distributed systems infrastructure design or security-focused cloud operations

Day-to-Day Activities

• Manage and optimize AWS infrastructure ensuring stability resilience and security

• Maintain and enhance CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation

• Monitor system health through metrics logs and trace tools responding to incidents proactively

• Collaborate with development teams to incorporate reliability patterns such as circuit breakers retries and health checks

• Perform capacity planning and cost optimization activities

• Document procedures runbooks and post-incident reports

• Conduct routine performance tuning vulnerability scans and security updates

Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science Information Technology or related field; equivalent practical experience accepted

• Certifications such as AWS Certified Solutions Architect DevOps Engineer or equivalent are highly desirable

• Proven experience leading infrastructure operations and reliability initiatives in cloud environments

• A continued commitment to staying current with cloud certifications security standards and automation tools

Professional Competencies

• Strong analytical skills with a focus on failure prevention and system resilience

• Excellent collaboration and communication skills for cross-team coordination

• Ability to influence and lead technical initiatives and best practices

• Self-motivated with a problem-solving mindset and proactive approach to operational challenges

• Capacity to learn continuously and adapt to evolving cloud technologies and best practices

• Focus on delivering dependable scalable and secure systems

SYNECHRONS DIVERSITY & INCLUSION STATEMENT

Diversity & Inclusion are fundamental to our culture and Synechron is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. Our Diversity Equity and Inclusion (DEI) initiative Same Difference is committed to fostering an inclusive culture promoting equality diversity and an environment that is respectful to all. We strongly believe that a diverse workforce helps build stronger successful businesses as a global company. We encourage applicants from across diverse backgrounds race ethnicities religion age marital status gender sexual orientations or disabilities to apply. We empower our global workforce by offering flexible workplace arrangements mentoring internal mobility learning and development programs and more.

All employment decisions at Synechron are based on business needs job requirements and individual qualifications without regard to the applicants gender gender identity sexual orientation race ethnicity disabled or veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.

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