CaaS Private Site Reliability Engineer - Assistant Vice President
D.B. Group2 months ago
Cary, NC, USAStaff+
Base Salary
$100k - $153k/yr
Responsibilities
- Define and continuously improve SLI/SLOs, alerting standards, and error budgets for the private CaaS platform and critical services.
- Build and maintain observability across metrics, logs, alerts, and dashboards.
- Lead or coordinate incident response, mitigation, communication, blameless postmortems, and follow-up actions.
- Automate operational tasks and remediation workflows to reduce toil and improve recovery time.
- Improve the reliability, upgrade safety, and operational readiness of Kubernetes clusters, ingress paths, service mesh components, node services, and platform dependencies.
- Partner with platform, network, security, and application teams on capacity planning, release readiness, troubleshooting, documentation, and best-practice adoption.
Requirements
- Hands-on experience operating Kubernetes clusters on bare metal or private cloud environments and supporting platform services at scale.
- Proven experience in Site Reliability Engineering, Production Engineering, DevOps, or a related infrastructure role.
- Strong Linux system administration and infrastructure scripting experience using Python, Ansible, and Bash.
- Practical knowledge of observability stacks and telemetry pipelines, including Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, metrics, logging, alerting, and dashboards.
- Understanding of incident management, root cause analysis, operational readiness, networking, virtualization, containerization, and distributed systems behavior under failure.
- Ability to use AI tools responsibly to improve productivity and solve business problems.
- Preferred experience with Istio, Envoy, service mesh observability, traffic management, OPA Gatekeeper, admission controls, or policy-driven operational guardrails.
- Familiarity with PostgreSQL, Kafka, MongoDB, or comparable stateful platform dependencies.
- Knowledge of capacity planning, load testing, chaos testing, failure injection, alert tuning, and self-healing automation.
- Experience with low-latency or regulated environments and constraints such as strict uptime, change control, compliance, time synchronization, deterministic performance, or SR-IOV.
- Ability to read and understand Golang code when troubleshooting platform components.
Benefits
- Hybrid working model with in-office and work-from-home flexibility; employees hired into this role are expected to work in the Cary, North Carolina office according to the bank’s hybrid model.
- Generous vacation, personal, and volunteer days.
- Health and wellbeing benefits, retirement savings plans, parental leave, and family building benefits.
- Employee Resource Groups, educational resources, matching gift programs, and volunteer programs.
- Physical, emotional, and financial wellness benefits.
Tech Stack
AmbassadorAnsibleApache KafkaBashGoGrafanaIstioKubernetesLinuxMongoDBPostgreSQLPrometheusPythonSplunk
Categories
DevOpsSite Reliability
About D.B. Group
D.B. Group is an Italian freight forwarder and logistics provider offering air, ocean, road, and rail transport, customs brokerage, and supply chain management for global shippers. Founded in 1980 and headquartered in Montebelluna, Veneto, it is privately held and operates through 79 subsidiaries with a worldwide partner network. The company delivers end-to-end forwarding and integrated logistics services, from consolidation and warehousing to door-to-door deliveries and trade compliance.