Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) – AWS + Docker

We are seeking a seasoned Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to enhance the reliability, scalability, and performance of cloud-native systems. This role involves managing AWS infrastructure, Dockerized workloads, CI/CD pipelines, and observability. The SRE will also be responsible for incident response, collaborating with development, QA, and security teams to ensure high availability and cost-efficient operations.

Must Have

• Define and maintain SLOs/SLIs/SLAs, error budgets, and reliability roadmaps.
• Build and manage AWS infrastructure (EC2/ECS/EKS, ALB/NLB, ASG, VPC, IAM, Route 53, S3, CloudFront, RDS/ElastiCache).
• Containerize and operate services using Docker; orchestrate via ECS/EKS/Kubernetes.
• Implement and optimize CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions/Jenkins/Azure DevOps) with blue/green & canary deployments.
• Set up observability: metrics, logs, traces (CloudWatch, Prometheus/Grafana, ELK/OpenSearch, X-Ray).
• Automate operations using Infrastructure as Code (Terraform/CloudFormation) and scripting (Python/Bash).
• Establish incident management: on-call, runbooks, RCA, postmortems, and remediation plans.
• Drive performance tuning, capacity planning, and cost optimization in AWS.
• Implement security best practices: least privilege IAM, secrets management, SSL/TLS, vulnerability scanning.
• Partner with development teams to design for reliability (circuit breakers, retries, backoff, health checks).
• 7+ years in SRE/DevOps/Cloud Operations with production ownership.
• Strong hands-on experience with AWS (EC2, ECS/EKS, IAM, VPC, ALB/NLB, Route 53, S3, CloudWatch).
• Solid experience with Docker and container orchestration (EKS/Kubernetes or ECS).
• Proficiency in CI/CD and release engineering; pipelines, artifact management, approvals.
• Strong in monitoring/alerting and incident response (on-call rotations, playbooks, MTTR reduction).
• Experience with IaC (Terraform/CloudFormation) and automation (Python/Bash).
• Good understanding of networking (DNS, TCP/IP, TLS, security groups/NACLs) and Linux internals.
• Knowledge of resiliency patterns: autoscaling, graceful degradation, rate limiting, caching.

About the Role

We’re hiring a seasoned Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to drive reliability, scalability, and performance across cloud-native systems. You will own AWS infrastructure, containerized workloads (Docker), CI/CD, observability, and incident response, partnering closely with Dev, QA, and Security to ensure high availability and cost‑efficient operations.

Key Responsibilities

• Define and maintain SLOs/SLIs/SLAs, error budgets, and reliability roadmaps.
• Build and manage AWS infrastructure (EC2/ECS/EKS, ALB/NLB, ASG, VPC, IAM, Route 53, S3, CloudFront, RDS/ElastiCache).
• Containerize and operate services using Docker; orchestrate via ECS/EKS/Kubernetes.
• Implement and optimize CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions/Jenkins/Azure DevOps) with blue/green & canary deployments.
• Set up observability: metrics, logs, traces (CloudWatch, Prometheus/Grafana, ELK/OpenSearch, X-Ray).
• Automate operations using Infrastructure as Code (Terraform/CloudFormation) and scripting (Python/Bash).
• Establish incident management: on-call, runbooks, RCA, postmortems, and remediation plans.
• Drive performance tuning, capacity planning, and cost optimization in AWS.
• Implement security best practices: least privilege IAM, secrets management, SSL/TLS, vulnerability scanning.
• Partner with development teams to design for reliability (circuit breakers, retries, backoff, health checks).

Required Skills & Qualifications

• 7+ years in SRE/DevOps/Cloud Operations with production ownership.
• Strong hands-on experience with AWS (EC2, ECS/EKS, IAM, VPC, ALB/NLB, Route 53, S3, CloudWatch).
• Solid experience with Docker and container orchestration (EKS/Kubernetes or ECS).
• Proficiency in CI/CD and release engineering; pipelines, artifact management, approvals.
• Strong in monitoring/alerting and incident response (on-call rotations, playbooks, MTTR reduction).
• Experience with IaC (Terraform/CloudFormation) and automation (Python/Bash).
• Good understanding of networking (DNS, TCP/IP, TLS, security groups/NACLs) and Linux internals.
• Knowledge of resiliency patterns: autoscaling, graceful degradation, rate limiting, caching.
• Excellent communication, collaboration, and documentation skills.

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