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Job Description: SRE / DevOps Engineer
Location: Englewood Cliffs, NJ
Work Arrangement: 100% Onsite from Day 1
Experience Required: 10 Years
Job Summary
We are seeking an experienced SRE / DevOps Engineer to support production infrastructure, cloud operations, automation, monitoring, and system reliability. The ideal candidate will have strong hands-on experience with AWS, Linux administration, CI/CD pipelines, scripting, and production support.
The engineer will work closely with development, QA, cloud, and support teams to maintain highly available systems, improve operational efficiency, troubleshoot production issues, and implement reliability best practices.
Key Responsibilities
- Design, implement, and maintain highly available and reliable production systems.
- Manage and support AWS services, including EC2, RDS, S3, IAM, VPC, and CloudWatch.
- Perform Linux server administration, troubleshooting, patching, and performance tuning.
- Automate operational tasks and infrastructure management using Shell scripting, Python, Ansible, or Terraform.
- Configure and maintain monitoring, alerting, and observability solutions using tools such as Grafana, Prometheus, CloudWatch, Datadog, Splunk, and Zabbix.
- Participate in incident management, problem management, root cause analysis (RCA), and production issue resolution.
- Support CI/CD pipelines and deployment processes using Jenkins and Git.
- Provide operational support for PostgreSQL and MySQL databases.
- Define and maintain Service Level Indicators (SLIs), Service Level Objectives (SLOs), and Service Level Agreements (SLAs).
- Perform capacity planning, performance monitoring, and infrastructure optimization.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to improve system reliability, deployment quality, and operational processes.
- Follow security, automation, documentation, and infrastructure management best practices.
- Participate in on-call support and resolve critical production incidents.
Required Qualifications
- 6-8 years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, production support, or infrastructure operations.
- Strong hands-on experience with AWS cloud services.
- Strong knowledge of Linux administration and troubleshooting.
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines and Jenkins.
- Proficiency in Shell scripting and/or Python automation.
- Experience with monitoring, alerting, and observability tools.
- Working knowledge of PostgreSQL and MySQL databases.
- Experience with Git version control.
- Understanding of incident management, problem management, and root cause analysis.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills.
- Ability to collaborate effectively with development, QA, infrastructure, and support teams.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with Ansible and/or Terraform.
- Familiarity with Zabbix, Grafana, Prometheus, Datadog, Splunk, and AWS CloudWatch.
- Experience defining and tracking SLIs, SLOs, and SLAs.
- Knowledge of infrastructure automation, capacity planning, and cloud security best practices.
- Experience supporting business-critical production environments and participating in on-call rotations.
Important Candidate Requirements
- Must be available to work 100% onsite in Englewood Cliffs, NJ, from Day 1.
- Must be available for a face-to-face interview at the New Jersey location.
- Candidates must have hands-on experience with AWS, Linux, and CI/CD.
- Strong communication skills are mandatory.