Lead Site Reliability Engineer

About the role

Optomi is hiring a Lead Site Reliability Engineer to manage and scale a generative AI platform for a major entertainment company. You will guide technical strategy for cloud infrastructure and reliability while staying active in daily engineering tasks.

Key facts

What you'll do

• Architect and operate infrastructure for generative AI applications.
• Manage production Kubernetes clusters, including capacity and reliability.
• Create and standardize Helm charts for platform deployments.
• Build Infrastructure-as-Code solutions using Terraform.
• Design CI/CD pipelines with a focus on Harness.
• Execute deployment strategies like blue/green, canary, and GitOps.
• Enhance observability through logging, monitoring, and distributed tracing.
• Maintain a 99.99 percent uptime SLA for critical services.
• Troubleshoot distributed systems and cloud networking.
• Mentor team members and define engineering standards.

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience in SRE, DevOps, or Platform Engineering.
• Hands-on production Kubernetes administration.
• Proficiency in building and maintaining Helm charts.
• Expert-level Terraform and Infrastructure-as-Code skills.
• Professional experience with Harness for CI/CD.
• Multi-cloud background across GCP, AWS, and Azure, with a preference for GCP.
• Scripting proficiency in Python and Bash.
• Advanced YAML configuration skills.
• Production experience with PostgreSQL, Redis, Kafka, MongoDB, and Vault.
• Experience with CI/CD platforms like GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, or Azure DevOps.
• Background in observability tools such as Splunk, OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, and AppDynamics.
• History of leading technical projects and mentoring engineers.
• Experience working in Agile or Scrum environments.

Skills & tools

• Kubernetes, Terraform, Harness, GitOps, Python, Bash, YAML, Helm
• GCP, AWS, Azure
• PostgreSQL, Redis, Kafka, MongoDB, Vault
• Splunk, OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, AppDynamics
• GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, Azure DevOps

Practical notes

This role requires the ability to communicate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.