Site Reliability Engineer
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Modus CreateDigital Consulting
Location: United States of America, Overlap with client business hours daily is expectedFull-TimeSenior
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Job Details
- Experience
- 6+ years
- Required Skills
- AWSDockerPythonGitKubernetesCI/CDLinuxTerraform
Requirements
- 6+ years hands-on experience in SRE, DevOps, or Platform Engineering at scale.
- Strong proficiency in one cloud platform: Deep AWS expertise (ALB, ECS/Fargate, RDS Aurora, Lambda, IAM).
- Production Python backend engineering experience; comfortable debugging and optimizing Python services in containers and Lambdas.
- Experience building or bootstrapping SRE programs from scratch.
- Hands-on experience with incident response, on-call rotations, postmortems, and SLOs.
- Deep experience designing and implementing observability (metrics, logging, tracing, alerting).
- Solid understanding of containerization (Kubernetes, Docker) and deployment automation.
- Experience writing and maintaining infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, CloudFormation, Pulumi, etc.).
- Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines and deployment strategies.
- Ability to troubleshoot distributed systems and production issues with debugging complex failures.
- Scripting proficiency (Python, Bash, Go); Linux/Unix administration fundamentals.
Responsibilities
- Design observability systems (metrics, logging, tracing) and define SLOs, error budgets, and monitoring strategies aligned with business needs.
- Own 24/7 P0 on-call rotation with 10-minute acknowledgment SLA; validate and escalate AI-generated incident reports to platform teams.
- Establish reliability standards and SLA targets for backend services.
- Mentor and onboard additional SRE engineers as team scales to 8-12.
- Participate in incident response, troubleshooting, root-cause analysis, and postmortems.
- Implement reliability improvements, capacity planning, and performance optimization.
- Build self-healing automation and toil-reduction initiatives to minimize manual operational work.
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