Senior Site Reliability Engineer
$48,000–$60,000 year
Remote
Job Summary
Design and evolve cloud infrastructure architectures for high availability, reliability, security, and scale while defining reference patterns across the organization. Lead incident response efforts, including triage, root cause analysis, and post-incident reviews, alongside building CI/CD pipelines and automation tools using Git, Azure DevOps, or Jenkins. Establish governance standards for environment management, access control, and cost optimization through tagging, budget alerts, and rightsizing policies. Partner with engineering and product teams to balance performance, reliability, and cost-efficiency, mentoring engineers in DevOps and platform practices. This remote contractor role is located in LATAM and offers monthly compensation between $4,000 and $5,000 USD.
Required Qualifications
- BS or MS in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience
- 6+ years of experience with container orchestration services (Kubernetes preferred)
- 6+ years of experience administering and deploying CI/CD tooling (e.g., Git, Azure DevOps, Jira, GitLab, Jenkins)
- 6+ years of experience managing scalable applications in one or more major cloud providers
- 8+ years of significant experience with both Windows and Linux operating system environments
- 7+ years of experience with scripting and automation using tools such as PowerShell, Bash, or Python
- 4+ years of experience with infrastructure-as-code and orchestration platforms (e.g., Terraform, ARM/Bicep, CloudFormation, Ansible, etc.)
- Demonstrated expertise designing architectures for scalable, reliable, and secure tech stacks in distributed systems
- Demonstrated expertise implementing workflow processes for operating and maintaining applications in distributed architectures
- Strong experience working in agile-leaning software development environments and across varying application stacks
- Deep understanding of best practices and IT operations in distributed, cloud-native architectures
- Experience defining and implementing governance and guardrails around infrastructure, CI/CD, and security
- Strong grasp of cloud cost management and optimization techniques (e.g., usage analysis, rightsizing, scaling policies)
- Excellent problem-solving, troubleshooting, and incident management skills
- Excellent oral and written communication skills; capable of presenting complex technical concepts to technical and non-technical audiences
- Process-oriented with strong documentation skills and attention to detail
- Ability to translate loosely defined product or platform requirements into robust, scalable technical solutions
- This role is a remote contractor role
- We are seeking candidates located in LATAM
Desired Qualifications
- Kubernetes preferred
Hiring someone like this?
Get your role in front of qualified candidates on Sorce.