Senior Site Reliability Engineer

About the role

American Unit, Inc. is hiring a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to manage and scale the infrastructure supporting our web, mobile, and AI/ML platforms. You will work with cross-functional teams to improve system availability, automate manual tasks, and maintain high performance for our digital services.

Key facts

What you'll do

• Build and maintain scalable, resilient platform services.
• Establish and monitor SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets.
• Manage incident response, lead root cause analysis, and participate in on-call rotations.
• Develop observability solutions and dashboards to track system health.
• Create self-service tools and automation to increase developer productivity.
• Manage cloud infrastructure on AWS and Azure.
• Write and maintain Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, CloudFormation, Helm, and Kubernetes manifests.
• Optimize CI/CD pipelines and support GitOps workflows.
• Conduct disaster recovery exercises, resiliency testing, and chaos engineering.
• Implement automated remediation and maintain operational runbooks.

Requirements

• Bachelor degree in Computer Science, Engineering, IT, or equivalent professional experience.
• Minimum of 5 years in SRE, DevOps, Platform Engineering, or Cloud Operations.
• Experience managing large-scale distributed systems and customer-facing platforms.
• Proficiency in Linux administration and troubleshooting.
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes and containerized environments.
• Experience with AWS or Azure cloud platforms.
• Scripting and automation skills in Python and Bash.
• Experience with Terraform, Git, Docker, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Background in managing APIs, microservices, and distributed architectures.
• Proficiency in incident management and performance engineering.

Nice to have

• Experience supporting iOS and Android mobile applications.
• Knowledge of API gateways, CDN technologies, and edge architectures.
• Experience with AI/ML platform operations.
• Familiarity with DevSecOps and cybersecurity standards.
• Relevant certifications such as AWS Certified DevOps Engineer, Solutions Architect, or Kubernetes.
• Experience working within Agile and Product-based operating models.
• Proficiency in Go programming.

Skills & tools

• Cloud: AWS, Azure
• Infrastructure: Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, CloudFormation, Helm
• Observability: Splunk, Grafana, Prometheus, Datadog, New Relic, OpenTelemetry
• Languages: Python, Bash, Go
• Practices: CI/CD, GitOps, Chaos Engineering, Incident Management

Practical notes

This role requires a consistent onsite presence in Bellevue, WA. Applicants should be prepared to discuss their experience with high-availability production environments and incident leadership during the interview process.