Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Senior Site Reliability Engineer Location: Remote (Orlando HQ - Remote, FL) Compensation: $160,000 - $180,000 per year, depending on experience. Employment Type: Full‑Time What you can expect as the Senior Site Reliability Engineer at Fortress: The Senior Site Reliability Engineer is responsible for ensuring the reliability, performance, and scalability of critical systems and services across AWS and on‑premises environments. This role focuses on improving deployment processes, strengthening CI/CD pipelines, increasing automation, and enhancing system monitoring and observability. The position also leads key efforts such as transitioning applications to containerized deployments, implementing advanced deployment strategies, and improving shared infrastructure for developers. Candidates in this role will support production environments, manage incident response, and contribute to continuous improvement of Fortress’ operational reliability. Responsibilities Transition applications from traditional (non‑containerized) Ansible deployments to containerized, orchestrated deployments in AWS and on‑premises environments Build upon current CI/CD efforts to support different deployment strategies (Blue/Green, Canary, etc.) Support Development/QA/UAT efforts by building an environment for anyone in the company to test drive a release anywhere in the development lifecycle Improve common infrastructure for developers, such as CI/CD pipelines, log/application monitoring, cluster management, and configuration management Migrate application secrets and configuration from Ansible Vault to Hashicorp Vault Automate infrastructure provisioning during deployment Handle code deployments in all environments (cloud, on‑premises) Implement tools to monitor and alert with respect to service level metrics and objectives Provide technical guidance and educate team members and coworkers on development and operations Monitor relevant systems for availability and performance Available to support daytime and after business hours release activities Minimum Qualifications 5-8 years hands‑on experience in a SRE/DevOps role supporting production systems Production experience supporting Linux‑based infrastructure and administering services on AWS (RDS, VPC, ECR, CloudWatch, CloudFormation, Lambda, API Gateway) and on‑premises Demonstrable experience with deployment technologies such as Kubernetes, Ansible, Jenkins and Terraform (or similar technologies) Excellent documentation skills so anyone on the team can come up‑to‑speed on changes quickly Excellent written and verbal communication skills Experience implementing rolling upgrades (canary, blue/green, etc.) Strong scripting and tooling skillset (Bash, Python, JS, etc.) Self‑motivated, resourceful and a persistent problem‑solving aptitude with advanced time‑management skills Ability to independently use and refine prompts to enhance the quality, efficiency, and insight of regular work processes Preferred Skills SOC, NERC, and other compliance standards knowledge a plus Presentation skills and the ability to communicate with a variety of technical and non‑technical audiences Strong Linux system administration skills Strong scripting and tooling skillset (Bash, Python, JS, etc.) Adept at creating comprehensive documentation AWS administration Education Bachelor’s Degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or a related discipline required Master’s Degree in related field (preferred) Employee Benefits Remote and hybrid working environment Competitive pay structure Medical, dental, vision plans with employees covered up to 90% with highly progressive options for dependents and families Company‑paid life, short‑ and long‑term disability insurance Employee Assistance Program 401(k) match Flexible Paid Time Off Parental Leave Access to thousands of learning & development courses that range from mental health and wellbeing, stress, and time management to an array of technical and business‑related courses Employment Perks Professional growth opportunities through succession planning, up‑skilling, and certifications Tuition and certification reimbursement Employee referral programs Company‑sponsored events Fortress is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. All employees and applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, color, disability, gender, national origin, race, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, protected veteran status, or any other classification protected by federal, state, or local law. Fortress Information Security takes part in the E‑Verify process for all new hires. For positions located in the US, the following conditions apply. If you are made a conditional offer of employment, you will have to undergo a drug test. ADA Disclaimer: In developing this job description care was taken to include all competencies needed to successfully perform in this position. However, for Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) purposes, the essential functions of the job may or may not have been described for purposes of ADA reasonable accommodation. All reasonable accommodation requests will be reviewed and evaluated on a case‑by‑case basis. #J-18808-Ljbffr Fortress Information Security, LLC