Lead Site Reliability Engineer

Key Responsibilities

• Architect, implement, and maintain scalable, resilient, and secure infrastructure using AWS.
• Develop and manage infrastructure as code (IaC) using Terraform to automate deployments and streamline infrastructure management.
• Design and implement CI/CD pipelines for automated deployments and smooth application delivery.
• Contribute to and maintain monitoring, logging, and alerting systems for comprehensive visibility into infrastructure health.
• Troubleshoot system performance issues, identify bottlenecks, and implement solutions to enhance reliability and scalability.
• Participate in sustainable incident response, perform root cause analyses (RCAs), and ensure prompt resolution of incidents with minimal disruption.
• Work with development teams to ensure applications are designed for reliability, scalability, and performance.
• Assist internal and customer-facing teams with deployments, including VPN and other security-related infrastructure.
• Support AutoRABIT services through on-call rotations, ensuring timely resolution of critical issues.
• Automate manual tasks, such as user provisioning in production and test environments.
• Drive automation initiatives to improve efficiency, reliability, and deployment speed.
• Mentor peers and team members through knowledge sharing, training, and collaboration.
• Foster a culture of continuous improvement and blameless postmortems to learn from incidents.
• Ensure security best practices are followed across infrastructure and deployments.
• Adhere to internal controls and compliance requirements, ensuring all infrastructure aligns with security and regulatory standards.
• Responsibility to adhere to set internal controls.

Required Skills and Experience

• Technical Expertise:
  • Proven experience designing and managing AWS-based infrastructure.
  • Strong hands-on experience with Terraform for infrastructure as code.
  • Working knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and related tools like Jenkins, AWS CodePipeline, or equivalent.
  • Proficiency in scripting languages such as Bash or Python for automation tasks.
  • Knowledge of programming languages like Python.
  • Experience with configuration management tools like Ansible or AWS SSM.
  • Expertise in monitoring tools like Grafana, or Elasticsearch.
• Soft Skills:
  • Strong problem-solving and troubleshooting abilities.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills, particularly in working with global teams.
  • Leadership qualities with the ability to challenge the status quo and drive innovation.
  • A collaborative mindset with a focus on mentoring and knowledge sharing