Sr. Site Reliability Engineer I

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As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer within the APX SRE organization, you’ll focus on delivering practical, scalable solutions to support the reliability and performance of our mission-critical, cloud-native global Kubernetes platform and the services that run on it. You care deeply about system stability, clear do...

As an SRE, you’ll play a critical role in building the infrastructure and tools that power reliable, scalable, and secure engineering operations across the company. You will:
Build robust, easy-to-use kubernetes platforms and tools that enable engineering teams to provision and operate services rapidly, consistently, and securely.
Exemplify cloud-native site reliability best practices.
Write code that is performant, maintainable, clear, and concise.
Employ strong problem-solving skills, with the ability to debug problems in cloud-native distributed systems.
Employ technical project management skills, with the ability to properly scope, plan, and define work to meet deadlines.
Influence and educate the engineering organization to adopt new and improved architectural patterns.
Provide robust documentation for use by engineers to promote self-service.
Continually seek improvement within the entire platform org for improved reliability, operability, and cost efficiency
Take calculated risks, champion new ideas, and cultivate your craft.

5+ years of applicable experience in Platform engineering, and container orchestration
United States Citizen — able to gain CJIS clearance for full US production access
Experience building platforms on either Azure or AWS (preferably both)
Building, operating, and innovating clustering solutions for Kubernetes platforms like AKS, EKS, or similar in production at scale
Experience with programming languages such as Python, Go, C#, Java, and others.
Building, operating, and managing infrastructure and systems that are highly revenue, security, and/or health and life-safety critical.
Experience utilizing CI/CD platforms to automate provisioning infrastructure, software builds, tests, and releases.
Experience using observability tools such as APM, logging, and metrics to assist with debugging issues.
Experience using Infrastructure as Code tools for provisioning flexible and testible modules such as Terraform, Pulumi, or similar.
Experience designing tooling to simplify the operational management of SaaS/PaaS systems.
Empathy to support the needs of software engineers.