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Site Reliability Engineer

Summary

Build and maintain reliable, PCI-compliant AWS cloud infrastructure for a fintech company, automating deployments, observability, and platform engineering with Java and low-latency workloads.

We are seeking an experienced Site Reliability Engineer to support and enhance hybrid AWS cloud environments, preferably within PCI-DSS compliant financial services environments. The successful candidate will play a key role in infrastructure automation, CI/CD implementation, observability, reliability engineering, and platform engineering practices across the organization.


What you'll do:

  • Hands on work experience in a hybrid (AWS) cloud environment, preferably in the financial sector with PCI-DSS compliant systems.
  • Implementing CI/CD pipeline automation across functional areas.
  • AWS workload automation (provisioning infrastructure and custom software configuration rollout).
  • Implementing Observability for hybrid cloud-based environments.
  • Strong understanding of networking principles and protocols.
  • Troubleshooting low latency & Java based applications in a SRE (Site Reliability Engineering) context.
  • Familiarity/applying Platform Engineering principles and practices.
  • Understanding of the AWS Well-Architected Framework and practices.




Requirements

Your expertise:

  • Must have at least 8 years hands-on experience in a DevOps role within a hybrid AWS cloud environment
  • Experience in PCI-DSS compliant systems (preferably within the financial sector)
  • Strong understanding of networking principles and protocols
  • Experience implementing CI/CD automation pipelines
  • Experience with workload automation and infrastructure provisioning
  • Experience implementing observability in cloud and hybrid environments
  • Experience troubleshooting low-latency and Java-based applications
  • Practical application of Platform Engineering principles
  • Strong understanding of AWS Well-Architected Framework

Technology and Tooling:

Essential:

  • AWS Services: EC2, RDS (Postgres & Oracle EE), EBS, EKS, ECS, Load Balancing, Secrets Manager, KMS, Service Catalog
  • AWS CDK
  • Observability tooling: AWS CloudWatch, Splunk / AppDynamics, ELK
  • CI/CD platforms (e.g., Harness, Azure DevOps, GitLab or equivalent)
  • Operating Systems: Linux and Windows Server

Preferred:

  • Python scripting
  • AWS CloudFormation
  • Ansible
  • Bash scripting

Optional:

  • Zabbix monitoring
  • Keycloak
  • ActiveMQ
  • WebLogic 14c
  • Nginx

Certifications: (Beneficial)

  • AWS Certified SysOps Administrator (CloudOps Engineer)
  • AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate


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