Sr Staff SRE

Job Description

Job Title

Senior Staff Site Reliability Engineer

Created

17-Oct-2025

Department

SRE

Revised

Job Summary

We are seeking a Senior Staff Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) with deep technical expertise in distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, observability, and automation. The Senior Staff SRE will be responsible for ensuring reliability, scalability, and operational excellence across our production and pre-production environments. This role involves hands-on engineering, designing robust SRE frameworks, and driving large-scale improvements in reliability engineering practices. The candidate will collaborate across teams to define service-level objectives (SLOs), improve incident response processes, and automate end-to-end infrastructure and application reliability workflows.

Key Duties & Responsibilities (in decreasing Critical Emphasis order)

1

Reliability Engineering & Architecture:

• Architect and maintain highly available, fault-tolerant systems on AWS.
• Implement service reliability models based on SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets.
• Drive improvements in system performance, scalability, and resilience.

2

Automation & Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC):

• Develop automation pipelines using Terraform, Ansible,Bitbucket and Jenkins.
• Build reusable IaC modules for multi-account, multi-environment AWS deployments.
• Automate operational processes for scaling, monitoring, and recovery.

3

Observability & Monitoring:

• Define observability standards and implement dashboards using Elastic Stack, Grafana, or Prometheus.
• Integrate alerting with AIOps and anomaly detection tools for proactive issue identification.
• Partner with development teams to ensure telemetry and traceability coverage.

4

Incident Management & Root Cause Analysis:

• Lead high-severity incident response and drive postmortem processes.
• Conduct blameless post-incident reviews and implement reliability improvements.
• Contribute to runbooks, escalation matrices, and reliability playbooks.

5

Performance & Capacity Planning:

• Analyze system bottlenecks, throughput, and latency; propose optimization strategies.
• Lead capacity forecasting and ensure systems meet growth and scaling requirements.

6

Collaboration & Mentorship:

• Partner with development, QA, and DevOps teams to embed SRE principles.
• Mentor junior SREs on reliability best practices, automation, and cloud design.

7

Documentation:

• Maintain detailed design documents, architectural diagrams, and reliability procedures.
• Document automation workflows, SLO reports, and operational standards.

8

Technical Leadership & Mentorship:

• Provide deep technical mentorship to SRE and DevOps engineers.
• Lead technical discussions, reliability reviews, and performance retrospectives.
• Advocate automation-first and code-driven reliability culture within the organization.

9

Documentation & Knowledge Management:

• Maintain architecture blueprints, reliability engineering standards, and automation design documents.
• Establish templates for SLO documentation, postmortems, and change management reports.

Qualifications/Skills/Abilities

Minimum Requirements

Formal Education

• Bachelors degree in computer science, Information Technology, or a related field (or equivalent experience).

Experience (type & duration)

• 8+ years in DevOps/SRE roles, with experience in large-scale distributed systems.
• Proven background in cloud operations (AWS preferred), automation, and CI/CD.
• Telecom domain experience is good to have.

Skills

• Deep expertise in AWS (EKS, EC2, RDS, IAM, VPC,Kafka, CloudWatch,API GW, Lambda,WAF,KMS) and container orchestration (EKS).
• Strong skills in Linux administration and networking.
• Hands-on with Terraform, Jenkins, Git, and scripting (Python, Bash).
• In-depth understanding of observability frameworks (Grafana, Elastic Stack, Prometheus).
• Experience with container orchestration (Kubernetes) and microservices reliability.

Accreditation/certifications/licenses

• AWS Certified DevOps Engineer / Solutions Architect Associate (preferred).
• Terraform Associate or Kubernetes Certified Administrator (CKA) is a plus.
• SRE Foundation or Google SRE certification desirable.