Sr. Site Reliability Engineer
Blackpoint Cyber3 months ago
Remote, CanadaSenior
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain scalable infrastructure with Terraform and Terragrunt for automated cloud provisioning and orchestration.
- Own and optimize AWS cloud infrastructure for cost efficiency, security, high availability, and resilience.
- Manage production Kubernetes clusters and related tooling including Helm, ArgoCD, Istio, and Kustomize.
- Administer and scale Confluent Cloud and Apache Kafka data-streaming infrastructure.
- Deploy, configure, and maintain Redis for caching and real-time data processing.
- Implement monitoring, alerting, observability, and incident-response frameworks using Prometheus, Grafana, Alert Manager, Grafana Cloud, OpsGenie, and PagerDuty.
- Manage controlled feature deployments and progressive rollouts through LaunchDarkly and PostHog.
- Partner with software teams to integrate services and applications into existing infrastructure.
- Diagnose complex production system issues and implement solutions that improve performance and uptime.
- Drive continuous improvement in automation tooling, operational processes, scalability, reliability, and maintainability.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of experience in a Senior Site Reliability Engineer role or equivalent, with substantial cloud infrastructure management and automation experience.
- Expertise with Terraform and Terragrunt for enterprise-scale Infrastructure as Code deployments.
- Comprehensive experience designing, implementing, and maintaining secure, scalable, and resilient AWS architectures.
- Hands-on experience with distributed data streaming using Confluent Cloud and Apache Kafka.
- Experience with Redis and Amazon RDS for caching and relational database management.
- Experience with OpenSearch, Elasticsearch, or ChaosSearch for enterprise search and analytics.
- Experience designing and implementing monitoring and alerting infrastructure with Prometheus, Grafana, Alert Manager, Grafana Cloud, OpsGenie, or PagerDuty.
- Experience with LaunchDarkly or PostHog for feature-flag and controlled-release management.
- Extensive production Kubernetes administration experience with Helm and ArgoCD, plus working knowledge of Kustomize.
- Strong production troubleshooting, problem-solving, communication, and collaboration skills, including experience in Agile environments.
- Preferred experience includes multi-cloud work with Google Cloud Platform or Microsoft Azure, cloud-native security and compliance frameworks, serverless computing, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, and software development with Node.js, Python, or Go.
Benefits
- Eligible US employees receive health, vision, dental, and life insurance plans, a 401k plan, discretionary time off, and other perks.
- International employees receive benefits aligned with local market standards and applicable country requirements.
- Equity participation is available globally, with details varying by location and employment structure.
Tech Stack
Apache KafkaAWSAzureElasticsearchGitHub ActionsGoGoogle Cloud PlatformGrafanaHelmIstioJenkinsKubernetesNode.jsPrometheusPythonRedisTerraform
Categories
Site Reliability
About Blackpoint Cyber
Blackpoint Cyber provides managed detection, response, and remediation services and a security platform used by managed service providers and mid-market organizations. Founded in 2014 by former U.S. defense and intelligence operators, it offers 24/7 SOC-backed threat hunting and incident response delivered via the Blackpoint Suite. The privately held, remote-first company sells primarily through MSP partners and raised a Series C in 2023.