Lead Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)
FornaxTech·McLean, Virginia or Wilmington, North Carolina, USA
FornaxTech is looking for a Lead Site Reliability Engineer to own the reliability of AWS-hosted platforms. You will set the standards for how services are built, deployed and run, lead incident response, and make sure every major failure ends with a fix, not just a restart.
What you would work on
Designing and running AWS infrastructure as code with Terraform and Terragrunt
Building and improving CI/CD pipelines for safe, repeatable releases
Defining SLOs, alerting and on-call practices with service teams
Leading incident management and running blameless root cause analysis
Reducing toil through automation and platform improvements
Mentoring SREs and platform engineers and setting engineering standards
What they are looking for
Several years in SRE, DevOps or platform engineering, including time in a lead role
Strong AWS cloud infrastructure experience
Hands-on Terraform and Terragrunt
Proven incident management and RCA experience
Experience building CI/CD pipelines and platform tooling
Clear communication with engineering and business stakeholders
Role details
Locations: McLean, Virginia or Wilmington, North Carolina
Work model: Hybrid, onsite 2 days a week
Engagement: W2
Work authorization: US Citizens and Green Card holders only
Skills
- sre
- aws
- terraform
- terragrunt
- incident-management
- platform-engineering
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