MeridianLink
Sr. Site Reliability Engineer
US Remote · Senior
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PythonBashPowerShellDistributed SystemsAWSAzureCloud PlatformsKubernetesTerraformAnsibleCI/CDPrometheusGrafanaDatadogDevOpsSite Reliability EngineeringPlatform EngineeringCybersecurityNetwork SecurityIncident ResponseComplianceLoad TestingCommunicationMentoring
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About the role
- We are seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to join our cloud engineering team.
- Write production-grade Python tooling for automation, metrics collection, alert management, and operational workflows
Responsibilities
- Design, implement, and maintain Service Level Objectives (SLOs) and Service Level Indicators (SLIs) across all critical systems
- Lead observability strategy by designing comprehensive monitoring, logging, and tracing architectures
- Build and own runbooks, incident response procedures, and post-incident review processes
- implement infrastructure-as-code practices and ensure high availability, disaster recovery, and business continuity
- Develop automation and AIOps capabilities to reduce toil, accelerate incident detection, and enable self-healing systems
- implement intelligent alerting to minimize false positives
- Drive reliability improvements through load testing, chaos engineering, and failure scenario analysis
- Partner with application and backend teams to design reliable systems from inception
Requirements
- 7+ years in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, platform engineering, or closely related roles with significant responsibility for production systems
- Expert-level experience with Azure or AWS (or both)
- deep knowledge of compute, networking, storage, and managed services
- experience managing infrastructure at scale
- Demonstrated expertise in observability: designing and implementing monitoring, alerting, logging, and distributed tracing solutions
- Proven experience designing and troubleshooting highly available, resilient, and scalable systems
- Proficiency in Python, PowerShell, bash, etc. scripting languages for production automation, tooling, and systems programming
- ability to write clean, maintainable code for operational workflows
- Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible)
- Track record of incident management and on-call ownership
Nice to have
- Experience with Kubernetes and container orchestration
- deep knowledge of containerized application deployment and management
- Proficiency with observability as code
- Background in chaos engineering or reliability testing
- experience using tools like Gremlin or similar platforms
- Contribution to open-source observability or infrastructure projects
- Expertise in network security, application security, or infrastructure hardening
- Experience with database optimization, query performance tuning, and backup/recovery strategies
Company info
- About the Role We are seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to join our cloud engineering team.
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