What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) / DevOps Engineer position at CyLogic?
CyLogic is seeking a highly experienced Senior SRE / DevOps Engineer to build, operate, and improve scalable, reliable, and observable platforms supporting mission-critical applications. This role combines deep expertise in automation, CI/CD, observability, and modern infrastructure technologies with a strong focus on system reliability, performance, and operational excellence.
You will play a key role in advancing platform capabilities, improving developer productivity, and ensuring high availability through established DevOps and SRE practices.
Responsibilities/Duties:
Platform Engineering & Automation
- Build, implement, and maintain scalable infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and automation frameworks
- Develop and optimize CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Jenkins and modern pipeline tooling)
- Automate provisioning, configuration management, and deployment workflows
- Drive adoption of GitOps and immutable infrastructure practices
Observability & Reliability Engineering
- Build and operate observability platforms using OpenSearch, Elasticsearch, and related ecosystems
- Implement centralized logging, metrics, and distributed tracing solutions
- Define and monitor SLIs, SLOs, and SLAs
- Lead root cause analysis, incident response, and postmortem processes
- Perform proactive performance tuning and capacity planning
Containerization & Orchestration
- Build and operate containerized environments using Docker and Kubernetes
- Maintain orchestration platforms supporting microservices-based applications
- Improve cluster performance, scaling, and resiliency
- Apply container security and operational best practices
HashiCorp Stack & Infrastructure Management
- Use Terraform for infrastructure provisioning
- Use Vault for secrets management
- Use Consul (or similar) for service discovery
- Maintain consistency across environments (dev, test, prod)
Monitoring, Logging & APM
- Implement observability solutions using Grafana and telemetry pipelines
- Develop dashboards and alerting strategies to improve system visibility
- Integrate Application Performance Monitoring (APM) tools for application insights
- Establish logging standards and maintain log pipeline reliability
- Other duties as assigned
Experience and Core Competencies:
- 7 years of experience in SRE, DevOps, or Platform Engineering roles
- Strong hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines and tools such as Jenkins
- Deep expertise in Elasticsearch / OpenSearch
- Experience with Docker and Kubernetes
- Knowledge of HashiCorp tools (Terraform, Vault, Consul)
- Experience with Grafana and telemetry systems
- Proficiency in Python, Bash, or Go
- Understanding of AWS, Azure, or GCP
- Experience with Linux systems administration
- Experience implementing SRE practices
- Familiarity with service meshes
- Experience with distributed tracing tools
- Knowledge of security best practices
- Exposure to multi-cloud or hybrid environments
- Strong problem-solving and troubleshooting skills
- Ability to operate in high-scale environments
- Strong collaboration skills
- Focus on automation and reliability
Physical Requirements
- Lifting Up to 50 pounds
- Frequent walking, standing, bending, sitting.