Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Job Description

This role serves as a hands-on technical leader responsible for designing, implementing, and advancing reliability across complex, distributed systems in a highly regulated financial services environment.

Job Summary

• Design and implement reliability strategies across distributed, business-critical systems using automation, observability, and architectural guidance.
• Lead root cause analysis investigations on incidents and produce clear documentation of findings and remediation steps.
• Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation to support reliable, measurable software delivery.
• Advance observability practices across production workloads, including metrics, logging, and distributed tracing.
• Influence system design upstream by operating with significant autonomy and engaging stakeholders on reliability outcomes.
• Contribute to scripting and automation using Java, Python, or comparable languages to reduce toil and improve system reliability.
• Support containerized and serverless workloads across a large-scale AWS environment spanning approximately 1,200 hosts.

Minimum Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• 6-10 years of experience in SRE, software engineering, platform engineering, or DevOps roles.
• Deep hands-on experience with AWS across multiple architecture patterns, including containerized applications, EC2, and serverless.
• Strong programming skills with professional experience in Java and/or Python for scripting and automation.
• Proven experience with observability tooling covering metrics, logs, and tracing.
• Solid experience with CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation, and root cause analysis investigation and documentation.
• Demonstrated ability to operate effectively in complex, regulated enterprise environments.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Infrastructure as Code, particularly CloudFormation.
• Familiarity with application frameworks such as Spring, Spring Boot, React, or Angular, and application servers such as Tomcat, Netty, Node.js, or Next.js.
• Experience with relational and non-relational databases and associated ORM frameworks or drivers.
• Familiarity with ITSM tools such as ServiceNow or similar platforms, and ITIL-aligned change and release processes.
• Experience working in Agile or Scrum delivery environments.
• Knowledge of security compliance frameworks such as ISO 27001 or SOC 2.