Senior Site Reliability Engineer – Release Engineering

Vertex Analytics

Contract · Remote · Flexible hours

About the role

Vertex Analytics is modernizing the reliability of its flagship customer‑facing platform, AuroraStream. As a Site Reliability Engineer you will drive a performance and reliability overhaul, ensuring seamless user experiences under peak load.

Key responsibilities

• Instrument AuroraStream micro‑services with OpenTelemetry and create real‑time dashboards in Grafana.
• Design and implement auto‑scaling policies in AWS EC2 Auto Scaling and EKS for traffic spikes.
• Refactor existing CI/CD pipelines in GitHub Actions to include canary deployments and automated rollback.
• Conduct chaos engineering experiments using Gremlin to validate fault tolerance.
• Collaborate with product owners to define SLOs/SLA thresholds and embed them in Service Level Objectives.
• Document runbooks and hand‑off procedures for incident response within Confluence.

Must-have skills

• Deep experience with Linux system administration and performance tuning.
• Proficiency in Docker, Kubernetes (EKS), and Helm chart management.
• Strong knowledge of AWS services (EC2, RDS, CloudWatch, S3).
• Expertise in monitoring, alerting, and observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, Loki).
• Solid scripting skills in Bash/Python for automation.

Nice to have

• Experience with Terraform or CloudFormation for IaC.
• Background in chaos engineering or fault injection frameworks.