[Hiring] Senior Site Reliability Engineer @Junipersquare
Apr 04, 2025 - Junipersquare is hiring a remote Senior Site Reliability Engineer. đź’¸ Salary: $140,000 - $185,000 usd. đź“ŤLocation: USA, UK, Canada, India, Luxembourg.
Role Description
We are looking for a Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to join our team and help scale, secure, and improve our cloud infrastructure. In this role, you will work with modern cloud-native technologies, automate infrastructure management, and enhance system reliability. You will collaborate closely with software engineers and the platform team to build and maintain self-service tools that empower development teams while ensuring the reliability and scalability of our services.
This role requires a high degree of ownership, a bias for action, and a problem-solving mindset. If you are someone who naturally seeks out inefficiencies, takes the initiative to fix them, and enjoys building scalable systems, we want to hear from you.
- Own reliability and scalability initiatives—identify, prioritize, and implement solutions before issues escalate.
- Participate in an on-call rotation, responding to incidents, performing root cause analysis, and driving long-term fixes.
- Design, deploy, and manage Kubernetes clusters using Helm charts, Cilium, and Karpenter to optimize performance and cost.
- Architect and maintain AWS infrastructure with a focus on RDS/Aurora PostgreSQL, networking, and scaling best practices.
- Implement GitHub Actions CI/CD pipelines, integrating security best practices and automation.
- Define and enforce policy-based security for Kubernetes using Kyverno.
- Automate infrastructure provisioning with Crossplane and Terraform to ensure consistency and scalability.
- Enhance observability and monitoring using Datadog to proactively detect and resolve issues.
- Improve security and reliability by identifying risks in CI/CD, cloud environments, and Kubernetes, then implementing necessary safeguards.
- Lead post-incident reviews, drive lessons learned into long-term improvements, and document best practices in Confluence.
Qualifications
- 5+ years of experience in SRE, DevOps, or Infrastructure Engineering with a proven track record of ownership and initiative.
- Strong experience with Kubernetes, Helm, and CNIs, including networking and security.
- Proficiency in AWS services such as RDS, Aurora, IAM, VPC, EKS, and EC2.
- Experience in PostgreSQL administration, including performance tuning and high availability in RDS/Aurora.
- Hands-on experience with GitHub Actions and ArgoCD for secure and scalable CI/CD automation.
- Strong background in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) with Crossplane and Terraform.
- Deep understanding of observability and monitoring with Datadog.
- Experience with Kyverno for Kubernetes policy-based security enforcement.
- Proficiency in Python and Bash scripting for automation and system management.
- Strong understanding of CI/CD security best practices and ability to implement controls for securing deployments.
Requirements
- Self-starter mentality—actively seeks out and fixes problems without waiting for assignments.
- High ownership and accountability—takes initiative in driving improvements and following through to resolution.
- Strong problem-solving mindset—identifies bottlenecks, inefficiencies, and risks, then delivers scalable solutions.
- Excellent communication skills—documents processes in Confluence, collaborates cross-functionally, and influences engineering teams toward operational excellence.
Preferred Qualifications
- Deep experience with GitHub Actions for CI/CD automation, with a focus on security best practices.
- Extensive knowledge of Helm charts for managing Kubernetes applications.
- Strong experience in PostgreSQL, including optimization and high availability in RDS/Aurora.
- Experience with NoSQL databases and best practices for scaling and performance.
- Proven ability to influence engineering culture toward automation, self-service, and operational excellence.
- Experience with Karpenter for Kubernetes autoscaling.
- Previous experience with cost optimization strategies in AWS environments.
- Experience with Atlassian tools (Jira, Confluence) for tracking incidents and documentation.
- Strong experience with and a passion for expanding AI into the SRE and DevOps world.
Compensation
Compensation for this position includes a base salary, equity, and a variety of benefits. The U.S. base salary range for this role is $140,000 - $185,000 USD. Actual base salaries will be based on candidate-specific factors, including experience, skillset, and location, and local minimum pay requirements as applicable.
- Health, dental, and vision care for you and your family
- Life insurance
- Mental wellness coverage
- Fertility and growing family support
- Flex Time Off in addition to company paid holidays
- Paid family leave, medical leave, and bereavement leave policies
- Retirement saving plans
- Allowance to customize your work and technology setup at home
- Annual professional development stipend
Your recruiter can provide additional details about compensation and benefits.
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Salary
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$140,000 - $185,000 usd
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Remote
Location
USA, UK, Canada, India, Luxembourg
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Job Type
full-time
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Posted
Apr 04, 2025
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| đź“Ť | Be aware of the location restriction for this remote position: USA, UK, Canada, India, Luxembourg |
| ‼ | Beware of scams! When applying for jobs, you should NEVER have to pay anything. Learn more. |
