Senior Site Reliability Engineer
Cox Communications•Austin, TX
•Hybrid
About The Position
We are looking for a Senior Site Reliability Engineer who is passionate about building and maintaining highly available, scalable, and resilient systems. In this role you will serve as a senior engineer on the SRE team, driving reliability improvements across our production infrastructure while mentoring engineers and shaping our incident response culture. You will partner closely with software engineering, security, and product teams to embed reliability into every stage of the development lifecycle. This is a high-impact position for someone who thrives at the intersection of software engineering and operations.
Requirements
- 7+ years of experience in SRE, DevOps, or platform engineering roles with progressive responsibility
- Strong proficiency in at least one programming language (Python, Go, Java, or similar) for systems-level automation and tooling
- Deep hands-on experience with at least one major cloud provider (AWS, GCP, or Azure) including networking, IAM, and managed services
- Expert-level knowledge of container orchestration (Kubernetes) and microservices architectures
- Demonstrated experience defining SLOs/SLIs and managing error budgets in production environments
- Solid understanding of distributed systems concepts: consensus algorithms, CAP theorem, eventual consistency, and fault-tolerant design
- Proficiency with infrastructure-as-code tools (Terraform, CloudFormation) and configuration management
- Experience with CI/CD platforms (Jenkins, GitHub Actions) and GitOps workflows
- Strong Linux systems administration skills and networking fundamentals (TCP/IP, DNS, load balancing, CDN)
- Proven track record of leading incident response, writing effective post-mortems, and implementing systemic fixes
Nice To Haves
- Familiarity with chaos engineering practices and tools
- Background in database reliability engineering (Oracle, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Redis, or Cassandra at scale)
- Hands-on experience with FinOps practices and cloud cost optimization
- Contributions to open-source SRE or infrastructure projects
- Relevant certifications (CKA, AWS Solutions Architect Professional, GCP Professional Cloud Architect)
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain production infrastructure across cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure) ensuring 99.99%+ availability targets
- Define and champion SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets; drive data-informed reliability decisions across engineering teams
- Lead incident response efforts as Incident Commander; conduct blameless post-mortems and drive remediation to completion
- Develop and maintain infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, or CloudFormation) and CI/CD pipelines for automated, repeatable deployments
- Build and improve observability platforms using tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, NewRelic,Splunk, or the ELK stack
- Automate toil reduction through custom tooling, self-healing systems, and proactive capacity planning
- Architect and operate container orchestration systems (Kubernetes, ECS) at scale with emphasis on cost efficiency and performance
- Collaborate with security teams to embed security best practices into infrastructure and deployment pipelines
- Mentor junior and mid-level SREs through code reviews, knowledge-sharing sessions, and pair-programming
- Contribute to the on-call rotation and continuously improve runbooks, alerting, and escalation procedures
Benefits
- Competitive base salary with annual performance bonuses
- Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance with generous employer contribution
- Flexible hybrid/remote work model
- Annual learning and development budget for conferences, certifications, and courses
- Generous PTO policy, paid parental leave, and wellness programs
- 401(k) with employer match
- Collaborative, blameless engineering culture that values continuous improvement
- health care insurance (medical, dental, vision)
- retirement planning (401(k))
- paid days off (sick leave, parental leave, flexible vacation/wellness days, and/or PTO)
- seven paid holidays throughout the calendar year
- up to 160 hours of paid wellness annually for their own wellness or that of family members
- bereavement leave
- time off to vote
- jury duty leave
- volunteer time off
- military leave
- parental leave
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
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