Sr SRE

Our client is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to help define lead and continuously improve operational best practices using modern Site Reliability Engineering principles with a strong emphasis on AWS-based cloud infrastructure.

This role partners closely with engineering production support and technology leadership to design implement and operate highly reliable secure scalable and cost-effective systems supporting a complex application ecosystem and software delivery lifecycle.

The Senior SRE will influence cloud architecture decisions lead complex infrastructure initiatives and drive long-term improvements in reliability observability automation and cost efficiency. This is a senior individual contributor role with broad technical ownership and organizational influence.

Key Responsibilities

• Contribute to the design evolution and operational health of a large-scale AWS environment including architecture standards and best practices

• Design implement and optimize AWS-based infrastructure using services such as EC2 ECS/EKS Lambda RDS S3 IAM VPC and CloudWatch

• Build and manage cloud infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform CloudFormation or equivalent

• Lead new platform implementations and major reliability initiatives as a subject-matter expert in AWS and SRE practices

• Monitor analyze and optimize cloud spend balancing performance reliability and cost efficiency

• Apply and mature SRE principles to improve system availability scalability performance security and observability

• Design and implement automation to reduce operational toil and improve system efficiency

• Provide advanced operational support for cloud-hosted and hybrid platforms

• Define and improve monitoring alerting logging and incident response practices

• Lead complex production incidents perform root cause analysis and drive corrective and preventive actions

• Mentor junior and mid-level engineers through technical guidance and best-practice leadership without direct people management

• Collaborate with engineering QA security and business teams to embed reliability throughout the software delivery lifecycle

• Ensure systems and data handling meet applicable legal regulatory and security requirements

• Improve production engineering processes including change and configuration management observability incident response disaster recovery capacity planning performance tuning and deployment automation

• Participate in a sustainable on-call rotation and help reduce alert fatigue over time

• Act as a change agent for long-term technical strategy identifying risks dependencies and improvement opportunities

Required Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science Information Systems Engineering or equivalent practical experience

• 7 years of experience delivering technical solutions in production environments

• Three or more years of hands-on Site Reliability Engineering experience

• Extensive experience designing operating and scaling production AWS environments

• Strong expertise with Infrastructure as Code and modern cloud deployment patterns

• Proven ability to diagnose and resolve complex issues in distributed systems

• Experience leading incidents and driving post-incident improvements

• Ability to work independently prioritize effectively and manage multiple initiatives

• Strong written and verbal communication skills with both technical and non-technical stakeholders

Preferred Qualifications

• AWS certifications such as Solutions Architect DevOps Engineer or SysOps Administrator

• Experience working in regulated industries such as healthcare financial services or similar environments

• Familiarity with modern application stacks and supporting tools including CI/CD pipelines version control systems observability platforms containerization orchestration technologies and identity and access management solutions

• Experience working in Agile or Scrum-based delivery environments

What Success Looks Like

• Production systems are stable observable and resilient

• Incidents are handled effectively and result in measurable reliability improvements

• Infrastructure scales predictably while remaining cost-conscious

• Engineering teams are supported by clear standards automation and reliability tooling

• Reliability is embedded into the delivery process rather than treated as an afterthought