Sr. Platform Reliability Engineer

A technology company in the advanced computing space is seeking a Sr. Platform Reliability Engineer to help build and support resilient, scalable infrastructure. This role focuses on Kubernetes, IaC, CI/CD, observability, and operational reliability across both cloud and on-prem environments. You will collaborate closely with platform and delivery teams while participating in a sustainable on-call rotation.

*Unfortunately, this role does not offer sponsorship. U.S. Citizens or Greencard Holders Only.*

Details:

• Full-Time, Permanent Position
• Salary: $180k - $200k
• San Francisco, CA | 5 Days On-Site

Key Responsibilities:

• Design and maintain infrastructure across containers, VMs, and hybrid environments in major cloud platforms.
• Build and enforce Terraform-based IaC and consistent Git workflows.
• Own CI/CD pipelines and container build processes with secure, efficient delivery standards.
• Manage container registries, image hygiene, scanning, and promotion workflows.
• Implement GitOps patterns for reliable, declarative environment management.
• Maintain observability systems (metrics, logs, dashboards, alert routing).
• Strengthen security across secrets, RBAC, network policies, and compliance checks.
• Oversee certificate lifecycle management and encrypted communication standards.
• Support disaster recovery plans, backup strategies, and resilience improvements.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science
• 5+ years in SRE/DevOps/infrastructure engineering.
• 5+ years of experience with Terraform
• 5+ years of experience with containerization and orchestration
• Strong Linux and networking fundamentals.
• 5+ years of experience with observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, etc)
• 5+ years of experience with Python, Bash, or GoLang
• Comfortable with on-call rotations, incident response, and automation

Good to Haves:

• GitOps, policy enforcement tools, secrets management, and certificate automation.
• Registry management and container security scanning.
• Distributed tracing and long-term metrics storage.
• Hybrid/on-prem operations or data-heavy platform support.

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