Remote Position
[Remote] Sr. Site Reliability Engineer
🌍 Remote · United States
💼 Full-time
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Blackpoint Cyber is a cybersecurity company providing threat hunting, detection, and remediation technology. The company is hiring a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to design, implement, and maintain cloud and on-premise infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines, with a focus on automation, scalability, performance, and reliability. The role partners with engineering teams across cloud administration, Kubernetes, data streaming, observability, and incident response.
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain highly scalable infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (Terraform and Terragrunt) for automated cloud resource provisioning and orchestration
- Own and optimize our AWS cloud environment, ensuring cost efficiency, security best practices, and high-availability standards
- Manage and optimize Kubernetes cluster environments (Helm, ArgoCD, Istio, Kustomize) to support continuous delivery and infrastructure-as-code practices
- Administer and scale data streaming infrastructure (Confluent Cloud, Apache Kafka) to support enterprise-level data processing
- Deploy, configure, and maintain Redis for caching and real-time data processing
- Implement and maintain monitoring, alerting, and incident response frameworks (Prometheus, Grafana, Alert Manager, Grafana CloudOpsGenie/PagerDuty) to ensure system reliability and performance
- Facilitate controlled feature deployments and progressive rollouts through LaunchDarkly/PostHog
- Partner with software development teams to ensure seamless integration of new services, applications, and features into existing infrastructure
- Diagnose and resolve complex system-level issues, implementing solutions that maintain high performance and maximize uptime
- Drive continuous improvement of automation tooling, operational processes, and engineering methodologies to enhance scalability, reliability, and maintainability
- Stay current on emerging SRE trends and tools, andtools and help the team adopt relevant industry advancements and best practices
Skills
- 5+ years of experience in a Senior Site Reliability Engineer role or equivalent, with substantial emphasis on cloud infrastructure management and automation
- Expertise in Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Terragrunt) for enterprise-scale deployments
- Comprehensive knowledge of AWS, including designing, implementing, and maintaining secure, scalable, resilient cloud architectures
- Extensive hands-on experience with distributed data streaming (Confluent Cloud, Apache Kafka)
- Proven experience with Redis for caching and Amazon RDS for relational database management
- Experience with enterprise search and analytics platforms (OpenSearch, Elasticsearch, ChaosSearch)
- Proficiency designing and implementing monitoring/alerting infrastructure (Prometheus, Grafana, Alert Manager, Grafana Cloud, OpsGenie/PagerDuty)
- Practical experience with feature flag systems (LaunchDarkly/PostHog) for controlled release management
- Extensive experience administering production-grade Kubernetes (Helm, ArgoCD, Istio); working knowledge of Kustomize
- Strong problem-solving skills, with the ability to troubleshoot complex systems in production
- Strong communication and collaboration skills, with experience working in Agile environments
- Experience with Terragrunt to manage Terraform across multiple environments
- Extensive hands-on experience with distributed data streaming (Kafka)
- Multi-cloud experience (Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft Azure)
- Understanding of security frameworks and compliance standards for cloud-native/containerized environments
- Serverless computing and CI/CD pipeline experience (Jenkins, GitHub Actions)
- Software development proficiency in Node.js, Python, and/or Go
Benefits
- For eligible employees in the US, Blackpoint offers competitive Health, Vision, Dental, and Life Insurance plans.
- For eligible employees in the US, Blackpoint offers a robust 401k plan.
- For eligible employees in the US, Blackpoint offers Discretionary Time Off.
- Equity participation is available to employees globally, with program details varying by location and employment structure.
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