Senior Site Reliability Engineer – Cloud & Platform
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About the role
We are looking for a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to design, build and operate secure, scalable platforms that support critical products and services. You will partner with engineering, security and platform teams to drive automation, improve reliability and deliver an exceptional developer experience.
Key responsibilities
- Design, build and maintain highly available infrastructure across cloud and hybrid environments.
- Lead platform engineering initiatives such as internal developer platforms, self‑service tooling and infrastructure‑as‑code frameworks.
- Drive DevOps and DevSecOps practices, embedding automated security scanning, compliance checks and secure‑by‑default configurations into CI/CD pipelines.
- Define and track SLIs, SLOs and error budgets to guide reliability investments.
- Own incident management, including on‑call leadership, response and blameless post‑mortems.
- Design, test and maintain disaster‑recovery and business‑continuity plans.
- Automate operational workflows to reduce manual toil and improve system resilience.
- Architect and implement observability solutions to enhance visibility and accelerate issue resolution.
Required profile
- Equivalent practical experience in Site Reliability Engineering, Platform Engineering, DevOps or a closely related role.
- Proven background in platform engineering, building internal tools, self‑service infrastructure or developer platforms.
- Strong hands‑on experience with CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure‑as‑code and configuration management.
- Practical experience with DevSecOps, including security scanning, secrets management and compliance automation.
Required skills
- Cloud and hybrid environment expertise
- Infrastructure‑as‑code frameworks
- CI/CD pipeline development
- Configuration management
- Security scanning and secrets management
- Compliance automation
- Observability and monitoring solutions
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