About this opportunity
Confidential lists this Infrastructure / Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) opportunity in Kemah, Texas. Review the employer’s description below for duties, qualifications and application requirements.
Job description
Role Overview
Build, operate, and scale enterprise-grade production infrastructure supporting complex technology and AI initiatives. This role offers meaningful ownership of reliability, observability, infrastructure architecture, and operational improvements across sophisticated distributed systems.
Key Responsibilities
Build, operate, and improve highly available, scalable production infrastructure.
Manage and optimize Kubernetes-based production environments.
Design and maintain cloud infrastructure, primarily in AWS.
Improve reliability, availability, scalability, performance, and operational efficiency.
Build and maintain infrastructure and application observability using Datadog or comparable platforms.
Investigate production incidents, conduct root-cause analysis, and implement durable fixes.
Enhance monitoring, alerting, logging, tracing, and production visibility.
Develop automation and internal tooling that reduces manual operational work.
Partner with software engineering teams on deployments, infrastructure, and production reliability.
Contribute to infrastructure architecture and technical decisions for complex distributed systems.
Qualifications
Professional experience in infrastructure engineering, site reliability engineering, platform engineering, DevOps, or production engineering.
Hands-on experience operating complex, enterprise-grade production systems.
Strong production experience with Kubernetes, AWS, and cloud-native infrastructure.
Experience with Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, or similar observability platforms.
Experience with infrastructure as code using Terraform, Pulumi, or equivalent technologies.
Strong understanding of distributed systems, networking, containers, Linux, and cloud architecture.
Experience building or maintaining CI/CD and production deployment infrastructure.
Strong debugging, troubleshooting, incident-response, and automation capabilities.
Proficiency in Python, Go, Bash, or another programming or scripting language.
Preferred Experience
Operating Kubernetes and cloud infrastructure at significant production scale.
Supporting high-traffic or mission-critical applications.
Building infrastructure or platform tooling used by large engineering organizations.
Owning production reliability, on-call operations, incident response, or capacity planning.
Improving SLOs and SLIs, observability, deployment reliability, infrastructure performance, or operational efficiency.
Work Terms
Remote, full-time engagement.
Hourly employment.
Full-time availability is required.
Compensation
$200 per hour.
Who can apply
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