Senior Site Reliability Engineer (AWS)
Salary: ₱130,000 – ₱150,000 per month
About the role
We are seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer (AWS) to design, build, and operate highly reliable, scalable, and secure platforms supporting business-critical applications across hybrid (on-prem and cloud) environments. This role blends software engineering, systems engineering, and operational excellence, with a strong focus on automation, resiliency, observability, and cost efficiency.
The SRE will partner closely with application development, infrastructure, security, and product teams to reduce operational toil, improve system reliability, and enable faster, safer delivery of services.
Key responsibilities
Design and implement high-availability, fault-tolerant architectures across on-prem and cloud platforms (AWS)
Build and maintain infrastructure using Terraform and configuration management tools (e.g., Chef)
Design and implement end-to-end observability (metrics, logs, traces, synthetic monitoring)
Build dashboards, alerts, and runbooks to enable fast detection and resolution of incidents
Engineer and operate platforms on AWS, including EKS, EC2, RDS/Aurora, Lambda, API Gateway, CloudFront, WAF, ALB/NLB, CloudWatch, X-Ray, IAM, Secrets Manager
Lead cloud migrations and modernization initiatives, including legacy system refactoring
Design and support CI/CD pipelines enabling safe, repeatable deployments
Lead multi-region DR planning, implementation, and testing, including RTO/RPO definition and validation
Define and enforce SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets to balance reliability with delivery velocity
Partner with security and legal teams to meet regulatory and compliance requirements
About you
8+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, Platform Engineering, DevOps, or Systems Engineering
Hands-on expertise with AWS and cloud-native architectures
Proven experience with Terraform and Infrastructure as Code
Experience with EKS/Kubernetes at scale
Deep experience with Linux/Unix systems
Strong programming experience in Python, Java, or similar languages
Strong understanding of networking, security, and distributed systems
Experience operating mission-critical, high-volume platforms
Nice to Have
Experience in financial services or highly regulated environments
Familiarity with Chaos Engineering and resilience testing
Experience leading cloud cost optimization (FinOps) initiatives
Prior experience transitioning traditional infrastructure teams into SRE practices
What Success Looks Like
Reduced incidents and faster recovery times
Measurable reduction in operational toil
Improved system availability and performance
Clear reliability metrics aligned with business outcomes
Engineering teams empowered to ship faster with confidence