Remote Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Summary

Join ZayZoon's fast-growing Financial Technology and HR company as a Senior Site Reliability Engineer, working on complex AWS builds, infrastructure-as-code, and observability/logging/APM solutions.

Requirements

• Has the ability to build quick when we need to experiment and build clean when MVP becomes core functionality
• Has strong SQL and data analysis skills and an eagerness to dig into data as part of problem solving
• 5+ years infrastructure experience
• 2+ years AWS experience including certification and deployment of production applications
• Proficiency with IaC, specifically CloudFormation
• Experience with containerization (Docker, ECS, ECR)
• Experience analyzing and acting on performance issues using observability platforms (DataDog, NewRelic, OTel)

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain infrastructure-as-code CloudFormation templates, emphasizing serverless resources (ECS, Fargate, lambda)
• Instrumentation and daily metrics analysis of both infrastructure performance and our Ruby on Rails applications, using AWS tooling (Athena, CloudTrail, etc) and third party observability platforms (DataDog, OTel)
• Manage deployment pipelines, including blue/green and intelligent auto-scaling
• Maintain and stay ahead of resource dependencies, particularly database (RDS, Redshift), including updates, playbooks, downtime planning
• Project costs and implement AWS cost savings programs and reserved instances
• Work alongside our risk and security teams to ensure ongoing SOC-2 and cybersecurity compliances
• Extensive collaboration with app developers on shared metrics, database performance, load testing
• Extensive collaboration with data engineers on facilitating data warehouse development, ELT, ETL
• Participating in our agile development process: sprint planning, story grooming and stand ups
• Adherence to our SDLC and secure coding practises and environment

Benefits

Permanently remote work