Site Reliability Engineer

Datavant

Location: US
Workplace: Remote
Employment: Full Time
Salary: USD 100,000–130,000/yr

Posted 1mo ago

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Responsibilities

Lead the design and implementation of reliability improvements
Identify systemic inefficiencies and drive solutions
Implement customized solutions to complex operational problems
Review code, systems, and configuration for efficiency and best practices
Own SLO/SLI definitions and drive teams toward meeting targets
Lead incident response, facilitate postmortems, and ensure action items
Support the integration of newly acquired cloud environments
Contribute to hybrid-cloud and cross-cloud connectivity strategies
Help maintain and expand the modular network security edge
Drive standardization of infrastructure and operational practices
Partner with security and platform engineering teams
Develop tools and processes to improve team service delivery
Analyze service delivery data and team feedback
Participate in and help evolve on-call practices, runbooks, and alerting strategy
Address communication gaps and produce clear documentation
Teach and lead more junior engineers
Accept and promote sound engineering decisions
Collaborate cross-functionally to embed reliability thinking
Build and maintain Infrastructure as Code
Develop and improve CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and deployment tooling
Implement policy-based automation
Extend observability coverage
Leverage AI tools and agents

Requirements

5+ years of experience in site reliability engineering, DevOps, or platform/infrastructure engineering
Strong expertise in cloud infrastructure, including networking, security, compute, storage, and IAM
Experience supporting workload migrations and integrating new cloud environments
Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code and automation (Terraform and Ansible)
Strong security knowledge, including IAM, encryption, network security, and compliance frameworks (SOC2, HITRUST, NIST)
Demonstrated ability to solve complex operational problems independently and drive solutions end-to-end
Strong proficiency in at least one systems language (Python, Go, or similar) and comfort across multiple languages and configuration formats
Proven ability to conduct meaningful code and system reviews not just for correctness, but for efficiency and architectural soundness
Strong communication skills, including the ability to document technical decisions, address gaps in understanding, and build team alignment
Experience leveraging AI agents to accelerate daily workload
Competency with AWS EC2, Azure VMs, Kubernetes / containerized workloads
Competency with AWS (VPC, TGW, Peering, SG, ALB, NLB); Azure (VNets, NSG, AGW); VPN
Competency with Datadog, CloudWatch, Azure Log Analytics instrumentation, dashboards, alerting
Competency with Terraform, Ansible, GitHub Actions or equivalent CI/CD tooling
Hands-on experience in AWS and/or Azure; familiarity with GCP
Competency with AWS IAM, Azure RBAC, least-privilege access patterns
Competency with Linux (required), Windows (helpful); DNS / IPAM

Preferred

Experience with multi-cloud environments (AWS, Azure, GCP) and multi-account cloud governance (AWS Organizations, Azure Policy, SCPs)
Background in driving environment consolidation and integration bringing order to disparate hybrid and multi-cloud architectures
Experience defining and operating against SLOs/SLIs and error budgets
Familiarity with FinOps principles and cloud cost optimization
Track record of improving on-call health reducing alert fatigue, improving runbook quality, driving down MTTR
Experience with cloud-native identity management (AWS IAM Identity Center, Entra ID, RBAC)
Knowledge of multi-region architecture and disaster recovery strategies

Skills

Python
Go
Terraform
Ansible
AWS
Azure
GCP
Kubernetes
Docker
Datadog
CloudWatch
Azure Log Analytics
GitHub Actions
AWS EC2
Azure VMs
AWS VPC
AWS TGW
AWS Peering
AWS SG
AWS ALB
AWS NLB
Azure VNets
Azure NSG
Azure AGW
VPN
AWS IAM
Azure RBAC
Linux
Windows
DNS
IPAM
AWS Organizations
Azure Policy
SCP
AWS IAM Identity Center
Entra ID

Responsibilities

Requirements

Preferred

Skills

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