Senior Site Reliability Engineer – Linux

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• Build and maintain platform automation for provisioning, deployment, patching, and remediation tasks.
• Enhance observability frameworks, implementing monitoring, logging, and alerting for Linux workloads.
• Design and implement health checks, SLIs/SLOs for availability and reliability tracking.
• Collaborate with application and DevOps teams to ensure services follow reliability best practices.
• Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GitLab CI, or equivalent tools.
• Implement Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) solutions using Terraform, Ansible, or CloudFormation.
• Participate in readiness reviews for new service releases.
• Conduct root cause analysis and lead post-incident reviews to drive reliability improvements.
• Partner with Information Security teams to enforce compliance, patching, and hardening standards.
• Optimize system performance and capacity across compute, storage, and container environments.
• Automate recurring operational tasks to enhance efficiency and reduce manual intervention.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related discipline (or equivalent experience).
• 7+ years of hands-on experience in large-scale Linux system engineering, reliability, or operations.
• 3+ years designing, implementing, and maintaining enterprise distributed systems.
• Expertise in Linux distributions and associated system services.
• Strong knowledge of cloud environments and hybrid infrastructure models.
• Proficiency in Bash, Python, and infrastructure automation

• Hands-on experience with CI/CD, configuration management, and version control systems
• Solid understanding of containerization and orchestration.
• Proven troubleshooting and performance tuning skills for distributed and containerized systems.
• Familiarity with observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Datadog).
• Strong grasp of networking, DNS, TLS, and load balancing concepts.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills with cross-functional teams.

• Cloud-native Linux deployments on AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Experience with service mesh (Istio, Linkerd) and API gateways.
• Exposure to automation frameworks for security hardening (OpenSCAP, CIS benchmarks).
• Experience with log analytics, distributed tracing (Jaeger, OpenTelemetry).
• Familiarity with database performance tuning (MySQL, PostgreSQL, or MongoDB).
• Scripting for continuous compliance and infrastructure drift management.
• Experience in managing Linux-based container platforms and Kubernetes clusters at scale.

** The candidate should be willing to work in core US shift schedules. **