Senior Site Reliability Engineer Needed for Cloud Infrastructure

NexGen Media

Contract · Flexible hours

About the role

NexGen Media is scaling its digital platform and needs a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to ensure high availability, performance, and reliability of critical services. You will work on a focused, short‑term project to design and implement robust monitoring, automation, and incident response processes.

Key responsibilities

• Design and deploy automated scaling and self‑healing mechanisms on AWS.
• Implement end‑to‑end monitoring, alerting, and logging pipelines.
• Optimize CI/CD pipelines for rapid, reliable releases.
• Conduct root‑cause analysis of incidents and create post‑mortem reports.
• Collaborate with developers to embed reliability best practices into code.
• Document runbooks and standard operating procedures.

Must-have skills

• Extensive experience with AWS services (EC2, RDS, S3, CloudWatch).
• Strong proficiency in Docker and Kubernetes orchestration.
• Deep knowledge of Linux system administration and networking.
• Expertise in Infrastructure as Code tools (Terraform, CloudFormation).
• Proven track record in incident management and automation.

Nice to have

• Experience with Prometheus/Grafana monitoring stack.
• Familiarity with chaos engineering practices.