Lead Site Reliability Engineer
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Oct 14, 2026. First seen by Alion on Oct 4, 2026.
Join our team as a Lead Site Reliability Engineer, where you will be responsible for ensuring the reliability, scalability, and performance of our systems and services. You will work closely with development and operations teams to build and maintain robust infrastructure, automate processes, and drive engineering best practices. This role offers comprehensive health coverage, free working lunch, a social community, certification reimbursement, generous PTO, and wellness discounts.
Missions
- Monitor, maintain, and improve the reliability and availability of production systems, and respond to and resolve incidents.
- Collaborate with development teams to build reliability into services from the ground up, and design and implement automation to reduce toil.
- Define and track Service Level Objectives (SLOs) and Service Level Indicators (SLIs), and contribute to capacity planning and performance optimization efforts.
Profil recherché
- Strong understanding of core Kubernetes concepts including Pods, Deployments, Services, ConfigMaps, and Ingress- Hands-on experience deploying, managing, and troubleshooting workloads in Kubernetes
- Must be fluent in English both verbal and written
- Understanding of Kubernetes networking, storage, and security best practices
- Familiarity with Helm for application packaging and deployment
- Bachelors degree in computer science or relevant degree
- Experience with Kubernetes cluster management and administration
- Willing to work a hybrid model
- Commitment to a blameless culture and continuous learning
- Strong problem-solving and analytical skills with a methodical approach to troubleshooting
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to collaborate across technical and non-technical teams
- Ability to work effectively under pressure, particularly during incident response
- A proactive mindset with a focus on automation and continuous improvement
- Experience contributing to open-source projects
- Familiarity with SRE principles as defined by the Google SRE handbook
- Previous experience in a DevOps or Platform Engineering role