Senior Site Reliability Engineer for Kubernetes Deployment

NexGen Media

Contract · Flexible hours

About the role

NexGen Media seeks a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to design, implement, and maintain high‑availability services for a fast‑growing streaming platform. The project focuses on automating infrastructure, improving observability, and ensuring resilient deployments across cloud environments.

Key responsibilities

• Design and implement automated CI/CD pipelines for micro‑service deployments.
• Develop and maintain Terraform/IaC modules for AWS resources.
• Configure monitoring, alerting, and logging using Prometheus, Grafana, and ELK stack.
• Optimize Kubernetes clusters for scalability and fault tolerance.
• Conduct incident response, root‑cause analysis, and post‑mortems.
• Collaborate with development teams to embed reliability best practices.

Must-have skills

• Extensive experience with AWS services and cloud networking.
• Strong proficiency in Docker and Kubernetes orchestration.
• Deep knowledge of Terraform or similar IaC tools.
• Solid Linux system administration and scripting (Bash/Python).
• Proven track record in SRE practices, monitoring, and alerting.

Nice to have

• Experience with service mesh technologies (e.g., Istio).
• Familiarity with chaos engineering tools.