Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Careviso•Vienna, VA

62d•Remote

About The Position

We're looking for a Senior Site Reliability Engineer or DevOps Engineer to join our small but growing infrastructure team. You'll work alongside our existing Site Reliability team to build and maintain the systems that keep our platform reliable, secure, and observable. This is a generalist role on a lean team where you will be involved with everything from CI/CD pipelines to cost optimization to incident response. If you thrive in environments where you can own problems end-to-end and want to shape infrastructure practices from the ground up, we'd love to hear from you.

Requirements

2–3+ years of experience in SRE, DevOps, or platform engineering roles
2–3+ years of software development experience
Familiarity with one or more high-level languages such as Ruby, Python, Javascript, Java, C/C++, etc.
Strong hands-on experience with AWS or similar cloud platform
Proficiency with Infrastructure as Code
Experience with containerized deployments
Working knowledge of CI/CD pipelines
Familiarity with observability tooling
Understanding of security fundamentals and compliance in regulated environments
Comfortable working in a small team where ownership and initiative matter

Nice To Haves

AWS certifications (Cloud Practitioner, Solutions Architect, etc.)
Experience in healthcare or other compliance-heavy industries (HIPAA, SOC 2)
Background in data engineering or ETL pipelines
QA or test automation experience
Familiarity with Ruby on Rails applications

Responsibilities

Application Performance & Reliability
Partner directly with product teams to identify, diagnose, and resolve application performance issues or escalate to the appropriate owners
Build and improve monitoring, alerting, and dashboarding across our application and infrastructure using the Grafana stack
Establish SLIs/SLOs and drive reliability improvements based on data
Participate in incident response and blameless postmortems
On-call rotation during business hours with off-hours coverage for critical incidents only
Infrastructure & Platform Engineering
Manage and evolve AWS infrastructure using Terraform
Maintain and improve ECS-based deployments for our Rails monolith and supporting services
Own and enhance CI/CD pipelines in GitHub Actions
Build internal tooling that improves developer productivity and deployment confidence
Security & Compliance
Support HIPAA and SOC 2 compliance through infrastructure controls, access management, and audit readiness
Implement and maintain security best practices across cloud resources
FinOps
Monitor cloud spend and identify optimization opportunities
Right-size resources and implement cost-aware infrastructure patterns