What are the responsibilities and job description for the Site Reliability Engineer / GCP / Remote position at Motion Recruitment?
This is a Site Reliability Engineer opportunity supporting a high-scale platform in the real-money gaming and lottery space. This is a fully remote role (EST hours preferred) focused heavily on Kubernetes, GCP, CI/CD automation, and observability tooling (Grafana/Prometheus stack) while supporting a distributed, production-critical environment.
This role is centered around owning reliability end-to-end. You will be responsible for ensuring platform stability, scalability, and performance while partnering closely with engineering teams to build systems that are fault-tolerant and production-ready from day one. The biggest draw here is the ability to work on high-impact systems where uptime and performance directly affect real users, while gaining strong exposure to modern SRE practices, microservices architecture, and cloud-native infrastructure.
Required Skills & Experience
Tech Breakdown
Posted By: Isabella Sweet
This role is centered around owning reliability end-to-end. You will be responsible for ensuring platform stability, scalability, and performance while partnering closely with engineering teams to build systems that are fault-tolerant and production-ready from day one. The biggest draw here is the ability to work on high-impact systems where uptime and performance directly affect real users, while gaining strong exposure to modern SRE practices, microservices architecture, and cloud-native infrastructure.
Required Skills & Experience
- 5 years in SRE, DevOps, or Infrastructure Engineering
- Strong experience with Kubernetes and Docker
- Cloud experience (GCP preferred, AWS acceptable)
- Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines
- Hands-on experience with observability tools (Grafana, Prometheus, Loki, Tempo)
- Strong understanding of distributed systems and microservices architecture
- Experience with incident response and root cause analysis
- Strong troubleshooting and systems thinking skills
- Experience with Go
- Familiarity with service mesh technologies (Istio)
- Experience managing PostgreSQL at scale
- Experience optimizing cloud cost and performance
- Exposure to SLA/SLO/SLI frameworks
Tech Breakdown
- 60% Cloud Infrastructure (GCP, Kubernetes, Docker)
- 20% CI/CD & Automation
- 20% Observability & Monitoring (Grafana stack)
- 70% Hands On
- 10% Management Duties
- 20% Team Collaboration
- Bonus OR Commission eligible
- Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance
- Vacation Time
- Stock Options
Posted By: Isabella Sweet