Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Veeam

Posted 2mo ago

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Get up to speed on the full platform
Write and maintain runbooks, architecture docs, and operational guides
Design infrastructure for high availability and fault tolerance on Azure
Define SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets
Run incident response and blameless postmortems
Identify reliability risks and build practical remediation plans
Close observability gaps
Set alerting, telemetry, and monitoring standards
Build automation to reduce toil and support fleet management
Work with IaC, CI/CD, deployment automation, and config management
Build and maintain testing, canary deployment, and release validation pipelines
Integrate chaos engineering and monitoring tools
Work across product, platform, security, legal, compliance, and operations teams
Own problems end-to-end
Mentor other engineers and help spread SRE practices

7+ years in Software Engineering, with 3+ years in SRE, Platform Engineering, or similar
Experience with Government or Sovereign Cloud (e.g., Azure Government, AWS GovCloud)
Experience in regulated compliance environments — government (FedRAMP, CMMC, IL2/IL4/IL5), financial (PCI-DSS, SOX), or healthcare (HIPAA, HITRUST)
Understand how compliance shapes architecture and operations
Strong experience building and running production services on cloud infrastructure (Azure preferred, including Azure Government)
Able to learn large, complex platforms quickly with limited guidance
Comfortable building understanding from code, docs, and architecture artifacts when direct environment access is restricted
Can investigate systems independently and produce clear docs, risk assessments, and improvement plans
Comfortable working across teams — engineering, product, security, compliance, operations
Programming skills in one or more of: TypeScript/JS, Go, Java, C#, or similar
Experience with monitoring and observability tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, ELK stack)
Experience with IaC (Terraform, Terragrunt, Pulumi) and container orchestration (Kubernetes)
Experience with CI/CD and GitOps tooling — GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, GitLab CI, ArgoCD, FluxCD, or Dagger
Solid grasp of distributed systems, networking, and cloud-native architecture
Clear written and verbal communication skills

Experience on B2B SaaS platforms in regulated or government markets
Background in chaos engineering, resilience testing, or performance/load testing
Have built an SRE or reliability function from scratch before
Experience across mixed environments — modern cloud-native and older legacy systems
Familiar with AI-first development workflows — using LLM-powered tools for infrastructure automation, code generation, and documentation

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