Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Key Responsibilities

Kubernetes & EKS Platform Engineering

• Architect, deploy, and operate production-grade Kubernetes clusters on AWS EKS
• Implement and manage EKS automation using EKS Blueprints and lifecycle management of add-ons
• Plan and execute Kubernetes and EKS version upgrades with minimal service disruption

Autoscaling & Compute Optimization

• Design and implement Karpenter-based autoscaling solutions for dynamic workload scaling
• Optimize compute resources for cost efficiency, performance, and high availability

Service Mesh & Traffic Management

• Design and operate Istio service mesh (including sidecar and ambient mesh models)
• Implement advanced traffic management policies such as mTLS, retries, circuit breaking, and timeouts

Security, Policy & Runtime Protection

• Implement Kubernetes governance using Kyverno and OPA/Gatekeeper
• Operate Falco for runtime threat detection and security incident investigation
• Integrate security and compliance controls into GitOps workflows

Infrastructure as Code & Automation

• Build and maintain reusable Terraform modules for AWS infrastructure (VPC, EKS, Transit Gateway, etc.)
• Implement Terragrunt-based multi-account and multi-region infrastructure setups
• Drive automation to reduce manual operations and improve scalability

GitOps & Platform Operations

• Design and manage Argo CD for GitOps-based deployment and platform operations
• Define Git-based promotion workflows and access control models across environments

Observability & SRE Practices

• Design and maintain monitoring and alerting systems using Prometheus
• Participate in incident response, root cause analysis, and reliability engineering improvements
• Reduce operational toil through automation and self-service capabilities

Security & Compliance

• Own remediation of security findings from tools such as Wiz across AWS and Kubernetes environments
• Collaborate with security teams to implement preventive security guardrails and best practices