Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Reliability & Performance Design and implement monitoring, alerting, and reliability tooling using CloudWatch, Grafana, Prometheus, Datadog, or ELK . Automation & Operations Build automation for deployment, configuration, and infrastructure management using Terraform, Ansible, or CloudFormation.

Role :- Contract to Hire
Position – Senior Site Reliability Engineer
Experience:7+ years
# of positions:2
C2C - $68/hr USD
Location: Remote

Job Description:

JOB DESCRIPTION

Reliability & Performance

• Design and implement monitoring, alerting, and reliability tooling using CloudWatch, Grafana, Prometheus, Datadog, or ELK.
• Analyze production performance, capacity, and error budgets to maintain agreed SLIs/SLOs.
• Implement automated health checks, scaling rules, and self-recovery mechanisms to minimize manual intervention.
• Drive root cause analysis (RCA) and post-incident reviews, ensuring permanent fixes and documentation.

Automation & Operations

• Build automation for deployment, configuration, and infrastructure management using Terraform, Ansible, or CloudFormation.
• Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or Jenkins.
• Manage and optimize containerized and serverless workloads (Kubernetes, ECS, EKS, Lambda).
• Implement automated rollbacks, blue/green deployments, and canary releases.

Incident Response & On-Call

• Participate in 24/7 on-call rotation for critical systems and lead incident management for your domain.
• Reduce mean time to detection (MTTD) and mean time to recovery (MTTR) through proactive automation and observability.
• Develop runbooks and operational playbooks for global SRE teams.

Security & Compliance

• Embed security practices into automation and deployment processes.
• Ensure systems adhere to ISO 27001 and SOC 2 requirements through continuous compliance monitoring.
• Manage IAM policies, secrets, and network configurations securely and efficiently.

Collaboration & Continuous Improvement

• Partner with developers to design for operability, scalability, and resilience from day one.
• Contribute to cross-team reliability reviews and platform improvement initiatives.
• Champion DevOps and reliability culture across Amtech's engineering organization.

QUALIFICATIONS

• 6+ years of experience in Site Reliability, DevOps, or Infrastructure Engineering roles.
• Strong background in AWS (EC2, ECS/EKS, RDS, Lambda, S3, IAM, VPC).
• Proficiency with Infrastructure-as-Code and automation (Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation).
• Experience with observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch, ELK, or Datadog).
• Scripting and automation skills (Python, Bash, Go, or PowerShell).
• Solid understanding of networking, DNS, and load balancing.
• Strong troubleshooting, incident management, and root cause analysis skills.
• Excellent communication and collaboration abilities in a cross-functional, distributed environment.

• Certifications such as AWS Certified SysOps Administrator, SRE Foundation, or CKA.
• Experience with chaos engineering or resilience testing tools.
• Familiarity with SLO/SLI error budget management.
• Exposure to multi-region, multi-account, or hybrid architectures.
• Background supporting SaaS platforms or regulated environments (SOC 2, HIPAA, GDPR).