[Hiring] Senior Site Reliability Engineer @Blackpoint Cyber

Role Description

We're hiring a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to design, implement, and maintain our cloud and on-premise infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines, with a focus on automation, scalability, and performance. You'll work across cloud platform administration, container orchestration, data streaming, observability, and incident response — partnering with engineering teams to keep our systems reliable, secure, and efficient, and helping foster a culture of continuous improvement.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain highly scalable infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (Terraform and Terragrunt) for automated cloud resource provisioning and orchestration.
• Own and optimize our AWS cloud environment, ensuring cost efficiency, security best practices, and high-availability standards.
• Manage and optimize Kubernetes cluster environments (Helm, ArgoCD, Istio, Kustomize) to support continuous delivery and infrastructure-as-code practices.
• Administer and scale data streaming infrastructure (Confluent Cloud, Apache Kafka) to support enterprise-level data processing.
• Deploy, configure, and maintain Redis for caching and real-time data processing.
• Implement and maintain monitoring, alerting, and incident response frameworks (Prometheus, Grafana, Alert Manager, OpsGenie/PagerDuty) to ensure system reliability and performance.
• Facilitate controlled feature deployments and progressive rollouts through LaunchDarkly/PostHog.
• Partner with software development teams to ensure seamless integration of new services, applications, and features into existing infrastructure.
• Diagnose and resolve complex system-level issues, implementing solutions that maintain high performance and maximize uptime.
• Drive continuous improvement of automation tooling, operational processes, and engineering methodologies to enhance scalability, reliability, and maintainability.
• Stay current on emerging SRE trends and tools, and help the team adopt relevant industry advancements and best practices.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in a Senior Site Reliability Engineer role or equivalent, with substantial emphasis on cloud infrastructure management and automation.
• Expertise in Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Terragrunt) for enterprise-scale deployments.
• Comprehensive knowledge of AWS, including designing, implementing, and maintaining secure, scalable, resilient cloud architectures.
• Extensive hands-on experience with distributed data streaming (Confluent Cloud, Apache Kafka).
• Proven experience with Redis for caching and Amazon RDS for relational database management.
• Experience with enterprise search and analytics platforms (OpenSearch, Elasticsearch, ChaosSearch).
• Proficiency designing and implementing monitoring/alerting infrastructure (Prometheus, Grafana, Alert Manager, OpsGenie/PagerDuty).
• Practical experience with feature flag systems (LaunchDarkly/PostHog) for controlled release management.
• Extensive experience administering production-grade Kubernetes (Helm, ArgoCD, Istio); working knowledge of Kustomize.
• Strong problem-solving skills, with the ability to troubleshoot complex systems in production.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, with experience working in Agile environments.

Requirements

• Multi-cloud experience (Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft Azure).
• Understanding of security frameworks and compliance standards for cloud-native/containerized environments.
• Serverless computing and CI/CD pipeline experience (Jenkins, GitHub Actions).
• Software development proficiency in Node.js, Python, and/or Go.

Benefits

• Competitive Health, Vision, Dental, and Life Insurance plans for eligible employees in the US.
• Robust 401k plan.
• Discretionary Time Off and other minor perks.
• Competitive benefits for international employees in accordance with local market standards and applicable country requirements.
• Equity participation available to employees globally, with program details varying by location and employment structure.