Staff SRE (AWS)

TL;DR

Staff SRE (AWS): Build tools, frameworks, and automation for monitoring, reliability, and scalability of on-prem and cloud infrastructure with an accent on observability, incident management, and operational efficiency. Focus on designing SLOs/SLIs, leading post-mortems, reducing toil via IaC and GitOps, and evaluating cloud technologies for production stability.

Location: Remote - Virginia (US-based)

Salary: $183,500 - $232,500

Company

Technology company building solutions to enhance road safety through video telematics and fleet management.

What you will do

• Build monitoring tools and frameworks to ensure high uptime in production environments.
• Mentor SRE team on best practices and foster innovation culture.
• Enhance 24/7 on-call processes, incident management, run-books, and SOPs for cloud services.
• Collaborate with architects, DBAs, developers, and DevOps to integrate reliability and scalability early.
• Lead blameless post-mortems, RCA publications, SLO/SLI definitions, and service owner initiatives.
• Research cloud technologies, reduce operational toil with IaC and GitOps, and resolve production incidents.

Requirements

• 8+ years as SRE in AWS at medium/large scale
• 6+ years with observability tools (Prometheus, New Relic, Grafana)
• Proficiency in Python, Groovy, Bash; database management (SQL/NoSQL)
• 5+ years building pipelines with Git, Terraform, Helm, Jenkins/ArgoCD
• Expertise in AWS services (VPCs, EKS, IAM, EC2, RDS, etc.) and Linux systems
• Experience with Kubernetes, 24/7 on-call rotations, run-books across geo-locations
• Ability to work under pressure in challenging environments

Nice to have

• Managing AWS networks (Direct Connects, Transit Gateways, VPNs, BGP)
• Cloud databases (RDS, Mongo, Elasticsearch, Snowflake)
• AWS, Kubernetes, Linux, Programming, CI/CD certifications

Culture & Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision insurance; HSA, FSA, telehealth
• 401(k) with match, life/AD&D insurance, short/long-term disability
• FTO/PTO, 11 paid holidays + 1 inclusive holiday, volunteer time off
• Employee well-being program, referral program, education reimbursement
• Recognition programs and additional perks