Sr. Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

About the Opportunity:

We’re seeking an experienced, highly collaborative SRE to partner with product teams and tackle our most critical infrastructure challenges. You’ll be hands-on in designing, building, and operating our cloud platform—and driving the reliability, performance, and security that empower our engineering organization.

Responsibilities:

• Infrastructure as Code & CI/CD: Automate provisioning and deployments with
• Terraform and integrate best-practice pipelines (GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, etc.).
• Reliability Engineering: Define SLIs/SLOs, manage error budgets, and build dashboards & alerts to proactively measure and improve system health.
• Security & Compliance: Enforce least-privilege IAM policies, automate vulnerability scans, and maintain audit logging for compliance.
• Monitoring & Observability: Instrument services with metrics, logs, and distributed tracing to enable rapid troubleshooting, aid teams in alerting, custom metrics, and dashboarding
• Incident Management: Own on-call rotations, lead real-time incident response, conduct post-mortems, and drive continuous improvements.
• Cost Optimization: Implement tagging strategies, right-size resources, and leverage concrete data to decide on optimal methods to control cloud spend at scale.
• Documentation & Mentorship: Author runbooks, standards, and best-practice guides—and coach dev teams on implementing modern DevOps, reliability, and security patterns.

Required Qualifications:

• Have 5 years of experience running production critical systems.
• Deep proficiency with the AWS Cloud and Cloud-Native best practices.
• Experience with Kubernetes (EKS, GKE) and Container Orchestration at scale.
• Skilled in Terraform to declaratively provision and maintain infrastructure services.
• Working knowledge of managing and debugging databases like Redis and Postgres.
• Strong familiarity with VPC, VPN, Load Balancing, and cloud networking components.
• Proficiency with Git workflows, branching strategies, and CI/CD systemintegrations.
• Solid understanding of web and network protocols and standards (HTTP, REST, TLS, DNS, etc...)
• Professional proficiency in English (both written and spoken) is required for this role.

Nice to Have Skills:

• Bachelor's degree, or equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• Experience with ArgoCD, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or other CI/CD pipeline solutions.
• Working knowledge of Python, Golang, and Helm templating languages.
• Node.js experience a plus, including running scalable, resilient Node microservices.
• Grasp of foundational security best practices for cloud infrastructure.
• Awareness of Terragrunt, managing Terraform state, and optimal project structure.
• Seasoned in production readiness fundamentals amidst a fast-moving team.

Avenue Code discloses salary range information based on our commitment to fairness and transparency. We consider a wide range of factors such as internal equity, geographic location, relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, seniority, business or organizational needs, and others. At Avenue Code, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the range for their role, and compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case. A reasonable estimate of the current range for a SRE POSITION is from $150.000,00 to $200.000,00 yearly.

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