Senior SRE Cloud Enablement Engineer

Acuity Inc.•Atlanta, GA

1d•$120,800 - $161,000•Remote

About The Position

Atrius® is a team of innovative and ambitious people creating cutting-edge cloud applications that collect, analyze, and mobilize data to make buildings more efficient, sustainable, and easier to navigate. From the world’s largest airports and enterprise campuses to cutting-edge venues, building owners and operators leverage Atrius technology to optimize energy resources, reach their sustainability goals, and deliver digital precision over physical spaces. Atrius is part of Acuity Intelligent Spaces, a division of Acuity Inc. revolutionizing spaces to sense, think, and act. Acuity Inc. (NYSE: AYI) is a market-leading industrial technology company. We use technology to solve problems in spaces, light and more things to come. Through our two business segments, Acuity Brands Lighting (ABL) and Acuity Intelligent Spaces (AIS), we design, manufacture, and bring to market products and services that make a valuable difference in people’s lives. We achieve growth through the development of innovative new products and services, including lighting, lighting controls, building management solutions, and an audio, video and control platform. We focus on customer outcomes and drive growth and productivity to increase market share and deliver superior returns. We look to aggressively deploy capital to grow the business and to enter attractive new verticals. Acuity Inc. is based in Atlanta, Georgia, with operations across North America, Europe and Asia. The Company is powered by approximately 13,000 dedicated and talented associates. Visit us at www.acuityinc.com. Job SummaryWe are seeking a Senior Site Reliability & Cloud Enablement Engineer to join the SRE Team. In this role, you will design, build, scale and operate highly available distributed systems and cloud applications that power intelligent buildings and spaces worldwide redefining how people live, work, learn and play. Our team’s scope is broad, with a strong focus on enabling product reliability and delivery velocity by building the platforms, standards, runbooks and guardrails that engineering teams rely on to scale safely. We emphasize data-driven reliability practices, strong cross-team collaboration and operational excellence. In addition to reliability engineering, we focus on cloud enablement by empowering teams to adopt cloud capabilities safely and efficiently at scale. We are a highly distributed team where remote work is the norm. Our culture values trust, respect, ownership, asynchronous communication, and customer impact. How you will contribute: You will lead through influence, applying your unique combination of cloud infrastructure expertise and software engineering skills to solve complex reliability, scalability and operability challenges across our products and services. You will enable teams by designing reusable cloud patterns, automation and guardrails to accelerate product delivery.

Requirements

5+ years of experience in software engineering and SRE / DevOps roles supporting production systems.
Strong hands-on experience with C#, Python, Java, or Go particularly for tooling and automation.
Deep experience in at least one major cloud environment - Azure strongly preferred.
Hands-On experience with Kubernetes and containerized workloads (AKS, Helm, Kustomize)
Experience with Infrastructure as Code using Bicep or Terraform in complex cloud environments.
Strong background in observability platforms and monitoring strategies (Datadog, Prometheus etc.)
Working knowledge of GitOps and experience building and maintaining CI/CD Pipelines (Jenkins, Azure DevOps)
Systems-oriented mindset with a focus on availability, resilience and enabling teams to operate effectively in the cloud.
Proven ability to collaborate across teams to diagnose issues, identify root causes, and drive resolutions.
Experience leading or participating in incident response and post-incident reviews.
Solid understanding of change & release management practices.
Ability to learn quickly, adapt to new technologies, and operate with minimal supervision.
Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to influence senior stakeholders and guide engineering teams.
Curiosity, adaptability and demonstrated habit of leaving systems better than you found them

Nice To Haves

Experience working with IoT platforms or distributed device networks.
Experience with disaster recovery, security, and compliance.
Experience defining SLAs, SLOs, and SLIs in partnership with product teams.
Familiarity with FinOps principles and cloud cost optimization strategies.

Responsibilities

Monitor and improve service availability, performance and operability, ensuring systems meet defined SLAs and SLOs.
Define and evolve reliability metrics (SLIs and SLOs) and ensure they are observable and actionable.
Serve as an escalation point for critical incidents. Lead incident response and blameless postmortems.
Drive proactive reliability improvements through problem identification, root cause analysis, remediation and systemic fixes.
Partner with development teams to design, deploy and manage cloud infrastructure using modern best practices.
Establish and evolve cloud standards, guardrails, and best practices that balance autonomy, security, reliability and cost efficiency.
Collaborate with product, platform, QA, and security team throughout the software lifecycle to deliver reliable, scalable, and compliant systems.
Advocate for changes that improve system reliability and engineering velocity.