What are the responsibilities and job description for the Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) position at Merican Inc?
Job Title: Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)
Location: Atlanta, GA (Hybrid)
Local Candidates Only
Hybrid work model with rotating teams:
- Team A: Onsite Thursday & Friday; Remote Monday Wednesday
- Team B: Remote Thursday & Friday; Onsite Monday Wednesday
- Teams rotate schedules weekly.
We are seeking a skilled Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to support highly available, business-critical applications across on-premises and AWS cloud environments. The ideal candidate will have strong expertise in DevOps, cloud infrastructure, automation, CI/CD, monitoring, and troubleshooting complex production systems. This role offers the opportunity to work with modern cloud technologies and contribute to the reliability, scalability, and performance of enterprise applications.
Key Responsibilities- Manage and optimize data streaming and API components in OpenShift (On-Premises) and AWS.
- Review application APIs and processes to identify performance optimization opportunities.
- Automate testing, including data quality validation, production deployments, and release processes.
- Develop integrations between on-premises, AWS, and third-party tools such as ServiceNow, VersionOne, and Sumo Logic.
- Collaborate with teams to define and implement SLIs and SLOs.
- Monitor production environments, troubleshoot performance issues, conduct root cause analysis, and document findings.
- Design, build, and maintain CI/CD pipelines for application artifacts, APIs, and data processing jobs.
- Configure monitoring, alerting, and observability solutions to enable proactive issue detection.
- Implement AWS security best practices, including IAM, HSM, encryption, and access controls.
- Monitor cloud costs, generate usage reports, and recommend cost optimization strategies.
- Design and implement solutions to address security vulnerabilities and compliance requirements.
- Analyze infrastructure capacity and performance to support scalable and resilient systems.
- Develop backup and disaster recovery strategies for critical applications and data.
- Collaborate with architecture, infrastructure, and application teams to continuously improve system performance, reliability, and security.
- Strong experience with AWS cloud services and cloud operations.
- Hands-on experience with OpenShift, CloudFormation, Terraform, Ansible, Shell scripting, and Python.
- Experience with Linux administration and enterprise infrastructure.
- Knowledge of virtualization, networking, load balancers, firewalls, storage, backup, and monitoring tools.
- Experience with CI/CD tools such as GitLab, GitHub, Jenkins, Maven, Gradle, and Nexus.
- Experience with Software Release Management.
- Strong troubleshooting and incident management skills for mission-critical systems.
- Experience with automation, infrastructure orchestration, and configuration management.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field (or equivalent experience).
- 3 years of DevOps/SysOps engineering experience with a focus on AWS.
- 2 years of application development experience involving data streaming and high-availability applications.
- 1 year of experience in a Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) environment preferred.
- Overall 4 6 years of IT experience.
Salary : $55