Site Reliability Engineer

Responsibilities

• Be available to respond to critical service incidents outside of business hours on a rotating on-call schedule.
• Proactively monitor application health and performance across cloud infrastructure (AWS).

• Troubleshoot and prevent service interruptions in real-time, working closely with development teams to resolve incidents efficiently.

• Lead and participate in disaster recovery drills and security incident simulations.

• Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and maintain scalable deployments using AWS-native tools and services.

• Collaborate with development teams to ensure smooth CI/CD workflows using Git and containerized deployments (Docker).

• Work closely with stakeholders and product teams to ensure technical reliability aligns with business needs.

• Support and improve observability tools, alerting mechanisms, and logging infrastructure to promote transparency and response agility.

• Champion best practices in security, availability, performance, and incident response.

Required Technologies & Tools

• Cloud Infrastructure : Strong proficiency in Amazon Web Services (AWS) with knowledge of services like EC2, ECS, RDS, CloudWatch, and IAM.

• Programming/Scripting : Proficiency in Node.js and scripting for automation and tooling.

• Containerization : Experience with Docker for container-based deployment pipelines.

• Frontend Awareness : Familiarity with React and Ember.js to understand performance implications at the frontend level.

• Backend Stack : Understanding of NestJS and scalable Node-based services.

• Databases : Proficient in MySQL and performance monitoring of relational databases.

• Version Control : Proficiency with Git for collaborative code management and DevOps workflow integration.

Core Competencies

• Incident Response : Calm and focused under pressure with a structured approach to resolving outages and degradation.

• System Design : Ability to contribute to and review architectural designs for scalability and resiliency.

• Collaboration : Strong communication skills to coordinate across developers, QA, and product teams.

• Automation & Efficiency : Passion for automation, repeatability, and continuous improvement.

• Security Mindset : Consistent implementation of security best practices and a strong grasp of data protection standards.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in a Site Reliability, DevOps, or related engineering role.

• Proven track record managing and scaling applications in a production AWS environment.

• Familiarity with full stack environments , particularly those using Node.jss .

• Experience maintaining and deploying databases such as MySQL with performance tuning.

• Experience with container orchestration (e.g., ECS or Kubernetes is a plus).
• Commitment to uptime, performance, and security in fast-moving SaaS environments.