Site Reliability Engineer

Job Description

Job Description

Role Description

We’re seeking an experienced, highly collaborative SRE to partner with product teams

and tackle our most critical infrastructure challenges. You’ll be hands-on in designing,

building, and operating our cloud platform—and driving the reliability, performance, and

security that empower our engineering organization.

As a Site Reliability Engineer at DrumWave, you will:

● Infrastructure as Code & CI/CD: Automate provisioning and deployments with

Terraform and integrate best-practice pipelines (GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, etc.).

● Reliability Engineering: Define SLIs/SLOs, manage error budgets, and build

dashboards & alerts to proactively measure and improve system health.

● Security & Compliance: Enforce least-privilege IAM policies, automate

vulnerability scans, and maintain audit logging for compliance.

● Monitoring & Observability: Instrument services with metrics, logs, and

distributed tracing to enable rapid troubleshooting, aid teams in alerting, custom

metrics, and dashboarding

● Incident Management: Own on-call rotations, lead real-time incident response,

conduct post-mortems, and drive continuous improvements.

● Cost Optimization: Implement tagging strategies, right-size resources, and

leverage concrete data to decide on optimal methods to control cloud spend at

scale.

● Documentation & Mentorship: Author runbooks, standards, and best-practice

guides—and coach dev teams on implementing modern DevOps, reliability, and

security patterns.

Qualifications

● Have 5+ years of experience running production critical systems

● Deep proficiency with the AWS Cloud and Cloud-Native best practices

● Experience with Kubernetes (EKS, GKE) and Container Orchestration at scale

● Skilled in Terraform to declaratively provision and maintain infrastructure

services

● Working knowledge of managing and debugging databases like Redis and

Postgres

● Strong familiarity with VPC, VPN, Load Balancing, and cloud networking

components

● Proficiency with Git workflows, branching strategies, and CI/CD system

integrations

● Solid understanding of web and network protocols and standards (HTTP, REST,

TLS, DNS, etc...)

Nice to Have’s:

● Bachelor's degree, or equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related

field.

● Experience with ArgoCD, Github Actions, Jenkins, or other CI/CD pipeline

solutions

● Working knowledge of Python, Golang, and Helm templating languages

● Node.js experience a plus, including running scalable, resilient Node

microservices

● Grasp of foundational security best practices for cloud infrastructure

● Awareness of Terragrunt, managing Terraform state, and optimal project

structure

● Seasoned in production readiness fundamentals amidst a fast moving team

Industry

● Technology, Information and Internet