Kontakt.io

Lead Site Reliability Engineer

Kontakt.io
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2 months ago

Base Salary

$200k - $250k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Ensure 99.99% uptime and meet strict SLAs for healthcare customers.
  • Design self-healing and fault-tolerant systems for a real-time cloud platform.
  • Define SLIs, SLOs, and SLAs and improve monitoring and incident resolution.
  • Architect and manage scalable AWS infrastructure for large-scale real-time data processing.
  • Optimize Kubernetes and Docker environments for multi-region deployments.
  • Lead infrastructure-as-code adoption with Terraform.
  • Build monitoring, alerting, and logging systems using Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, and Datadog.
  • Lead incident response, on-call operations, postmortems, disaster recovery, and business continuity planning.
  • Automate deployment, scaling, and failover to reduce manual intervention.
  • Drive technical strategy and roadmap for scalability, monitoring, and reliability engineering.
  • Lead and mentor the SRE team and collaborate across Product, Engineering, Infrastructure, Security, and Compliance.

Requirements

  • 10+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering or cloud infrastructure.
  • Proven success scaling high-traffic, mission-critical platforms in SaaS, IoT, or healthcare.
  • Deep expertise with AWS, Kubernetes, and distributed systems.
  • Strong monitoring, logging, and observability experience with Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, or similar tools.
  • Hands-on experience with incident management, postmortems, and resilient systems.
  • Deep knowledge of infrastructure-as-code automation, Terraform, and GitOps.
  • Ability to drive technical strategy and grow and mentor a high-performance SRE team.
  • Understanding of network security, access management, HIPAA, and SOC 2.
  • Bonus: healthcare IT experience including EHR data, FHIR, and HL7 interoperability.
  • Bonus: experience with real-time distributed systems, event-driven architectures, large-scale data pipelines, on-call rotations, or major incident management.

Benefits

  • Hybrid schedule requiring at least 3 days per week from the New York City office.
  • Equity in a high-growth company backed by leading investors.
  • Full health, dental, and vision coverage, 401k, paid time off, paid parental leave, and work tools.
  • Autonomy to solve meaningful problems with quickly shipping work.

Tech Stack

AWSDatadogDockerGrafanaKubernetesPrometheusTerraform

Categories

DevOpsSite Reliability
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