SRE Platform Engineer

Role Overview

Key Responsibilities

Cloud & Platform Engineering

• Design, build, and maintain scalable cloud infrastructure on AWS.
  
• Manage and optimize AWS services including EKS, RDS Aurora MySQL, ElastiCache, EC2, and networking components.
  
• Drive Kubernetes adoption and operational excellence across production environments.
  
• Manage cluster provisioning, scaling, and optimization using Karpenter and EKS.
  

Infrastructure as Code & Automation

• Lead Terraform governance, standardization, and best practices.
  
• Resolve infrastructure drift and improve multi-team collaboration workflows.
  
• Design migration strategies for legacy manually managed environments into Infrastructure as Code.
  
• Develop reusable Terraform modules and infrastructure automation frameworks
  

Reliability & Operations

• Ensure high availability and reliability of mission-critical real-time applications.
  
• Define and improve incident management processes, operational readiness, and service reliability.
  
• Support production workloads requiring minimal downtime and strict SLAs.
  
• Create and maintain operational runbooks, SOPs, and recovery procedures.
  

Observability & Monitoring

• Enhance monitoring, alerting, and observability practices using Datadog and Prometheus.
  
• Reduce alert fatigue through alert rationalization, prioritization, and ownership models.
  
• Implement SLOs, SLIs, and error budget frameworks.
  
• Improve APM adoption and application performance visibility.
  

CI/CD & GitOps

• Manage and optimize CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, Atlantis, Bitbucket Pipelines, and Rundeck.
  
• Drive GitOps practices using ArgoCD.
  
• Improve deployment reliability, automation, and release governance.
  

Data Platform & Scalability

• Support large-scale event-driven architectures handling hundreds of thousands of events per second.
  
• Work closely with engineering teams on database scalability and data platform modernization.
  
• Support technologies such as Aurora MySQL, ClickHouse, and Pulsar.
  

Platform Governance

• Establish service ownership models and service catalogs.
  
• Partner with development teams to shift operational ownership closer to engineering teams.
  
• Drive platform standards, security, reliability, and operational best practices.
  
  

Required Skills

• Strong experience with AWS cloud services.
  
• Hands-on expertise in Kubernetes (EKS) administration and operations.
  
• Advanced Terraform experience with large-scale environments.
  
• Strong knowledge of Infrastructure as Code, GitOps, and automation practices.
  
• Experience with Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, or similar observability platforms.
  
• Experience managing CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation.
  
• Strong Linux systems administration skills.
  
• Experience with incident management, root cause analysis, and production support.
  
• Knowledge of distributed systems and high-throughput architectures.
  
• Strong scripting skills using Python, Bash, or similar languages.
  
  

Preferred Skills

• Experience with Karpenter for Kubernetes autoscaling.
  
• Experience with ArgoCD and GitOps workflows.
  
• Exposure to ClickHouse, Apache Pulsar, Kafka, or event-streaming platforms.
  
• Knowledge of SRE principles including SLIs, SLOs, and Error Budgets.
  
• Experience optimizing monitoring and observability costs.
  
• Experience migrating legacy infrastructure to modern cloud-native platforms.