Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Summary

Join Natera, a global leader in cell-free DNA (cfDNA) testing, as a Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to ensure the reliability, scalability, and performance of our R&D cloud infrastructure. You will leverage your expertise in AWS and Kubernetes, collaborate with development and R&D teams, and drive continuous improvements across our systems. This role requires strong technical expertise, excellent communication skills, and a passion for working in a dynamic environment.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, business or technical field, or equivalent
• 6+ years of related relevant experience
• Strong all around experience in Amazon Web Services, AWS certification preferred
• Experience with CloudFormation and Lambda / Serverless as part of infrastructure
• Strong experience with Terraform
• 3+ years of experience with programming languages such as Python, Java, or similar for scripting, automation, and building tools
• Good understanding of Docker and Linux / Unix administration
• Practical experience building CI/CD pipelines using GitLab or similar tools
• Practical experience managing applications deployed using Docker in Cloud
• Experience with container orchestration tools
• Strong communication skills. Be able to justify and stand for the proper solution

Responsibilities

• Develop automation and CI/CD processes to enable teams to build, test, deploy, manage, configure, secure, scale and monitor their applications using the latest technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform and others
• Manage R&D AWS Infrastructure and accounts
• Work closely with teams inside R&D to investigate areas of improvement and eliminate bottlenecks
• Build and deploy cloud-based infrastructure to support R&D
• Participate in architectural decisions to help improve the quality of our infrastructure and applications
• Work tightly with groups within and external to R&D for best overall systems design and operations
• Be a cloud expert for your team and R&D teams

Preferred Qualifications

• 3 years proven success in Software Development / Engineering preferred
• 4 years proven success in SRE / DevOps and continuous deployment automation leadership preferred
• 5 years experience working in a large technology based global enterprise, tech/bio/pharma preferred
• Solid experience with EKS, Kubernetes CKA certification preferred

Benefits

• Competitive Benefits - Employee benefits include comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life and disability plans for eligible employees and their dependents
• Additionally, Natera employees and their immediate families receive free testing in addition to fertility care benefits
• Other benefits include pregnancy and baby bonding leave, 401k benefits, commuter benefits and much more
• We also offer a generous employee referral program!