Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Bolt On Technology•Tampa, FL

1d•$110,000•Hybrid

About The Position

The Senior Site Reliability Engineer is responsible for ensuring the reliability, scalability, performance, and security of our production systems. This role blends software engineering and systems engineering to build resilient infrastructure, improve automation, and proactively reduce operational risk. The Senior SRE will serve as a technical leader, driving best practices across observability, incident response, and platform stability.

Requirements

6+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, Platform Engineering, or related roles
Strong experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
Proficiency with infrastructure as code (Terraform, CloudFormation, Pulumi, etc.)
Experience with containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes)
Strong Linux systems administration and networking fundamentals
Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines
Hands-on experience with monitoring and observability tools (Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, New Relic, etc.)
Strong troubleshooting and incident management skills
Experience with scripting and automation (Python, Bash, Go, or similar)

Nice To Haves

Experience designing multi-region or highly distributed systems
Experience with security best practices and compliance in production environments
Experience supporting high-availability SaaS platforms
Experience in a fast-growing or PE-backed environment
Experience influencing reliability culture across engineering teams

Responsibilities

Design, build, and maintain highly available, scalable, and fault-tolerant systems
Lead reliability improvements across production and non-production environments
Own and improve monitoring, alerting, and observability platforms
Drive incident response, root cause analysis, and post-incident reviews
Implement automation to reduce manual operational work
Partner with Engineering, Security, and Product to support platform needs
Establish and track SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets
Lead capacity planning and performance tuning efforts
Improve deployment, CI/CD, and infrastructure-as-code practices
Identify and mitigate reliability and scalability risks before they impact customers
Mentor and guide junior engineers and contribute to team technical standards
Participate in on-call rotation and help mature on-call processes