Akoya External

Akoya External

Senior SRE Engineer

Boston, MA · Senior · Contract

Sponsorship not specified$55k-$75kDetected 5 days ago
PythonGoSwiftBashRedisDynamoDBAWSCloud PlatformsKubernetesTerraformCI/CDNginxDatadogSite Reliability EngineeringPlatform EngineeringIncident ResponseFirewallVPNLeadershipCommunicationCollaborationProblem SolvingMentoringAdaptability

About the role

  • driving initiatives, mentoring engineers, owning SLA/SLO adherence, leading incident management, and automating toil out of day-to-day operations.
  • If you thrive in fast-paced environments and are passionate about system reliability, security, and operational excellence, we invite you to join our Platform Engineering team.
  • This is a 6-month contract role, with a potential to convert to full-time on the Platform Engineering team, working closely with global development, operations, and delivery teams.

Responsibilities

  • Champion robust system design and operational excellence across engineering and product teams.
  • Design, implement, and maintain scalable systems for uptime, resilience, and performance, while defining and enforcing SLOs, SLIs, and SLAs with product teams.
  • Own incident detection, escalation, and resolution, developing playbooks for failure scenarios and leading post-mortem analyses with corrective actions.
  • Build monitoring, logging, and alerting systems, and develop automation for deployments, maintenance, and toil reduction.
  • Drive CI/CD improvements and maintain operational documentation, runbooks, and best practices.
  • Partner with developers on reliability by design, fostering shared responsibility for observability and fault tolerance.
  • System Reliability Advocacy: Champion robust system design and operational excellence across engineering and product teams.

Requirements

  • Knowledge of certificate and PKI lifecycle management, including HSM-backed key protection and mTLS.
  • Proficiency in Python, Go, and Bash for automation and infrastructure-as-code.
  • Hands-on experience with Datadog for metrics, distributed tracing, log management, and APM.

Nice to have

  • Preferred Skills & Attributes

Skills

  • Deep working knowledge across compute, networking, security, storage, and data services in multi-account, multi-region environments.
  • Skilled at diagnosing and resolving complex, multi-layer issues in distributed, cloud-native environments.
  • Client API integration via VPN to on-premises or cloud environments with HSM-backed mTLS.
  • Route53, ELB (NLB/ALB), WAF, VPC, NAT, IGW, VGW, VPN, Lambda
  • Analytical Problem-Solving: Skilled at diagnosing and resolving complex, multi-layer issues in distributed, cloud-native environments.

Compensation

  • This role is a 6-month contract role, with a potential to convert to full-time, with an expected hourly rate of $55 - $75.
  • The actual hourly rate offered considers the candidate's work location, relevant education, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience, among other factors.
  • The actual base pay offered may take into account the candidate's work location, relevant education, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience, among other factors.

Company info

  • Fosters accountability and a blameless culture focused on reliability and continuous improvement.
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