Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) – AWS Cloud (Terraform & Ansible Focus)

Job ID: 111

We are seeking a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) with deep expertise in AWS cloud infrastructure, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), and large-scale production operations. This role is heavily focused on designing, deploying, automating, and optimizing cloud-native infrastructure in AWS using Terraform and Ansible.

You will work at the intersection of software engineering and cloud operations to build resilient, scalable, secure, and highly automated systems that power mission-critical applications.

Key Responsibilities

AWS Cloud Architecture & Deployments

• Design, implement, and maintain scalable, secure, and highly available infrastructure in AWS
• Lead large-scale AWS deployments across multi-account, multi-region environments
• Architect and optimize solutions using services such as:
• * EC2, EKS, ECS, Lambda
• VPC, Route 53, CloudFront
• RDS, DynamoDB, S3
• IAM, KMS, Secrets Manager
• Implement well-architected solutions aligned with AWS best practices

Infrastructure as Code (Terraform Focus)

• Develop and maintain reusable, modular Terraform code
• Build CI/CD-driven infrastructure pipelines
• Manage Terraform state securely (remote backends, locking, environment separation)
• Enforce policy-as-code and guardrails
• Review and optimize Terraform modules for performance and maintainability

Configuration Management & Automation (Ansible Focus)

• Design and maintain Ansible playbooks and roles
• Automate configuration management and application deployments
• Integrate Ansible with CI/CD pipelines
• Ensure idempotent, secure, and maintainable automation

Reliability & Operations

• Define and implement SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets
• Lead incident response, root cause analysis (RCA), and postmortems
• Improve observability using logging, monitoring, and tracing tools
• Optimize system performance, cost, and resilience
• Build self-healing infrastructure and automation-first solutions
• Required to participate in recurring On Call shifts

DevOps & CI/CD

• Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure and applications
• Promote GitOps workflows
• Integrate automated testing, security scanning, and compliance validation

Security & Compliance

• Implement least-privilege IAM policies
• Automate security controls within Terraform and Ansible
• Ensure compliance with internal and regulatory standards
• Implement infrastructure security best practices (network segmentation, encryption, patching)

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

• 4+ years in DevOps, Cloud Engineering, or Site Reliability Engineering
• 3+ years hands-on AWS experience in production environments
• Deep expertise in:
• * Terraform (advanced modules, workspaces, state management)
• Ansible (roles, playbooks, dynamic inventories)
• Strong experience with:
• * CI/CD platforms (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, etc.)
• Kubernetes (EKS preferred)
• Linux systems administration
• Networking fundamentals (VPC design, DNS, load balancing)
• Proficiency in at least one scripting/programming language (Python, Bash, Go)
• Experience with monitoring and observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, etc.)
• Strong understanding of distributed systems and reliability engineering principles

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with multi-account AWS environments using Organizations and Control Tower
• Experience implementing GitOps workflows
• AWS certifications (Solutions Architect, DevOps Engineer, etc.)
• Experience with service mesh technologies
• Cost optimization and FinOps experience
• Experience in highly regulated environments (HIPAA, SOC 2, PCI)

City: Newtown

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