Senior Site Reliability Engineer - EPG

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Infrastructure/Orchestration: Kubernetes (EKS/GKE), Terraform, Helm, Git, ArgoCD, GitOps
Programming: Golang, Python, Rust
Observability: Datadog, Splunk, Graphana
Data Stores: PostgreSQL, Redis, OpenSearch, Snowflake
Strong experience operating large-scale production services in AWS and/or GCP.
Deep expertise with Linux and Kubernetes in production environments.
Experience troubleshooting Kubernetes networking, storage, scheduling, scaling, and workload lifecycle issues.
Extensive experience with Infrastructure as Code technologies such as Terraform and Helm.
Strong software engineering skills in Golang and/or Python.
Experience building automation and internal engineering platforms.
Experience operating and troubleshooting distributed data platforms such as PostgreSQL, Redis, OpenSearch, MySQL, Cassandra, or similar technologies.
Strong understanding of cloud networking fundamentals including DNS, load balancing, ingress, TLS, service networking, and traffic management.
Experience with observability platforms, monitoring strategies, and production telemetry.
Experience with or strong interest in AI-assisted engineering and operational automation.
Strong expertise operating customer-facing production systems subject to SLA
Experience leading incident response and driving operational improvements.
Deep understanding of reliability engineering concepts including SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, and capacity planning.
Strong understanding of CI/CD pipelines, deployment strategies, and automation-first operational practices.
Proven ability to balance reliability, scalability, security, and engineering velocity.
This role supports US FedRAMP projects and requires the employee to be a US Person (US Citizen or Green Card Holder) to meet FedRAMP compliance and security clearance standards.
Understanding of cloud security fundamentals, IAM, secrets management, and secure infrastructure design.
Experience implementing operational controls, compliance standards (e.g., FedRAMP, SOC2, HIPAA), and best practices in highly regulated or security-sensitive government cloud environments is highly preferred.
Demonstrated success contributing to complex engineering initiatives.
Strong collaboration and communication skills.
Experience working effectively within globally distributed engineering organizations spanning multiple timezones and cultures.
Experience collaborating with engineers and contributing to technical capabilities within an organization.
Ability to influence technical direction through expertise, partnership, and execution.
Experience operating SaaS platforms serving large-scale customer workloads.
Experience working within Kubernetes-based microservices environments.
Experience supporting globally distributed production environments.
Experience with GitOps and ArgoCD.
Experience implementing AI-assisted operational tooling or automation workflows. 

 
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