Senior Site Reliability Engineer
About The Position
The Senior Site Reliability Engineer is responsible for ensuring the reliability, performance, and scalability of critical systems and services across AWS and on-premises environments. This role focuses on improving deployment processes, strengthening CI/CD pipelines, increasing automation, and enhancing system monitoring and observability. The position also leads key efforts such as transitioning applications to containerized deployments, implementing advanced deployment strategies, and improving shared infrastructure for developers. Candidates in this role will support production environments, manage incident response, and contribute to continuous improvement of Fortress’ operational reliability.
Requirements
- 5-8 years hands-on experience in a SRE/DevOps role supporting production systems
- Production experience supporting Linux-based infrastructure and administering services on AWS (RDS, VPC, ECR, CloudWatch, Cloud Formation, Lambda, API Gateway) and on-premises
- Demonstrable experience with deployment technologies such as Kubernetes, Ansible, Jenkins and Terraform (or similar technologies)
- Excellent documentation skills so anyone on the team can come up-to-speed on changes quickly
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Experience implementing rolling upgrades (canary, blue/green, etc.)
- Strong scripting and tooling skillset (Bash, Python, JS, etc.)
- Self-motivated, resourceful and a persistent problem-solving aptitude with advanced time management skills
- Ability to independently use and refine prompts to enhance the quality, efficiency, and insight of regular work processes
- Must be willing to participate in technical interviews and technical questions, which may be recorded or transcribed for evaluation purposes (required)
Nice To Haves
- SOC, NERC, and other compliance standards knowledge a plus
- Presentation skills and the ability to communicate with a variety of technical and non-technical audiences.
- Strong Linux system administration skills
- Strong scripting and tooling skillset (Bash, Python, JS, etc.)
- Adept at creating comprehensive documentation
- AWS administration
Responsibilities
- Transition applications from traditional (non-containerized) Ansible deployments to containerized, orchestrated deployments in AWS and on-premises environments
- Build upon current CI/CD efforts to support different deployment strategies (Blue/Green, Canary, etc.)
- Support Development/QA/UAT efforts by building an environment for anyone in the company to test drive a release anywhere in the development lifecycle
- Improve common infrastructure for developers, such as CI/CD pipelines, log/application monitoring, cluster management, and configuration management
- Migrate application secrets and configuration from Ansible Vault to Hashicorp Vault
- Automate infrastructure provisioning during deployment
- Handle code deployments in all environments (cloud, on-premises)
- Implement tools to monitor and alert with respect to service level metrics and objectives
- Provide technical guidance and educate team members and coworkers on development and operations
- Monitor relevant systems for availability and performance
- Available to support daytime and after business hours release activities
Benefits
- Remote and Hybrid working environment
- Competitive pay structure
- Medical, dental, vision plans with employees covered up to 90% with highly progressive options for dependents and families
- Company paid life, short- and long-term disability insurance
- Employee Assistance Program
- 401(k) match
- Flexible Paid Time Off
- Parental Leave
- Professional growth opportunities through succession planning, up-skilling, and certifications
- Tuition and certification reimbursement
- Employee Referral Programs
- Company Sponsored Events
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
