Staff Site Reliability Engineer

BeyondTrust•Toronto, ON

About The Position

BeyondTrust is seeking a Staff Site Reliability Engineer to lead the evolution of its Password Safe platform, infrastructure, and deployment ecosystem. The role bridges systems engineering and software development, architecting highly available and resilient systems across cloud and on-premises environments. The engineer will serve as a technical leader, mentor engineers, and influence the broader engineering roadmap while owning the reliability, scalability, and efficiency of shared services, CI/CD pipelines, and platform engineering initiatives through an AI-first operating model.

Requirements

At least 7 years of experience in SRE, DevOps, or Platform Engineering, including at least 2 years at Senior or Staff level.
Proven experience managing automation and infrastructure across cloud and on-premises environments.
Experience with Docker and Kubernetes, including cluster administration, networking, and security primitives.
Experience with release orchestration strategies such as Canary or Blue-Green deployments.
Proficiency in at least one systems language, such as Go, Java, or C#, for building automation, tooling, and internal APIs.
Deep understanding of OpenTelemetry and monitoring and observability best practices, including Golden versus RED signals and application monitoring.
Familiarity with GitOps workflows and Infrastructure as Code and Configuration as Code best practices.

Nice To Haves

Knowledge of UI automation testing.
Experience designing and testing microservice-based applications.
Experience working with virtual machines and managing test environments.
Experience working in a continuous integration environment.
Deep understanding of Linux and Windows internals.
Experience migrating workloads seamlessly across on-premises and cloud environments.
Understanding of modern DevSecOps practices.

Responsibilities

Design, scale, and maintain highly available, secure, and resilient systems across AWS, Azure, and on-premises environments.
Champion platform engineering initiatives that reduce cognitive load for software engineers and accelerate development velocity.
Own and optimize foundational services, including API gateways, service meshes, caches, configuration management, and secrets management.
Promote an Everything as Code culture, with infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and configurations declaratively defined, version-controlled, and deployed through automated GitOps workflows.
Standardize, secure, and optimize CI/CD pipelines for safe, repeatable, and rapid code deployments.
Use infrastructure as code, such as Terraform, OpenTofu, or Ansible, to drive architectural patterns that eliminate configuration drift.
Design and implement automated chaos engineering frameworks and disaster recovery simulations.
Architect and mature telemetry using metrics, logs, and traces, with tools such as Grafana Cloud, Datadog, and OpenTelemetry.
Define, implement, and enforce Service Level Objectives and Service Level Indicators across critical applications.
Partner with engineering leadership to define the long-term SRE strategy.
Mentor engineers, establish standards, coach on reliability practices, lead design and incident reviews, and develop documentation and tooling that makes reliability knowledge accessible.