Senior Site Reliability Engineer – Customer-Facing Cloud Migration

NexGen Media

Contract · Remote · Flexible hours

About the role

NexGen Media is building the StreamPulse analytics enablement layer to give operations teams real‑time visibility into data pipelines. As a Site Reliability Engineer you will own the reliability, scaling, and observability of this platform, ensuring data flows uninterrupted from ingestion to dashboard.

Key responsibilities

• Design and implement Terraform modules for AWS EKS clusters supporting StreamPulse workloads.
• Set up Prometheus‑Grafana monitoring stacks with custom alerts for pipeline latency and failure rates.
• Automate CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions to deploy micro‑services written in Go and Python.
• Optimize Kafka consumer groups and Spark job configurations for cost‑effective throughput.
• Conduct chaos engineering experiments with Gremlin to validate resilience under load spikes.
• Document runbooks and incident response procedures for data‑pipeline incidents.

Must-have skills

• Strong experience with Kubernetes orchestration and Helm charts.
• Proficiency in AWS services (EKS, S3, CloudWatch, IAM).
• Infrastructure‑as‑Code expertise using Terraform or CloudFormation.
• Solid Linux systems administration and scripting (Bash, Python).
• Deep understanding of observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, Loki).

Nice to have

• Experience with data‑streaming frameworks such as Kafka or Flink.
• Familiarity with SRE practices like SLO/SLI definition and error budgeting.