Data Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) - AWS & DevSecOps

**FULLY REMOTE**

ScolerTec is seeking multiple Data Site Reliability Engineers (SREs) to support a large-scale cloud data modernization and governance program.

The Data SRE will provide technical leadership for the reliability, availability, performance, observability, security, and continuous improvement of cloud-based data platforms, pipelines, applications, and analytics services. This role will work across AWS infrastructure, DevSecOps, CI/CD, monitoring, incident management, disaster recovery, automation, and cloud cost optimization.

Key Responsibilities

• Monitor and maintain the reliability, availability, health, and performance of cloud data platforms and services.
• Implement real-time monitoring, dashboards, alerting, event management, and operational reporting.
• Lead incident detection, diagnosis, escalation, root-cause analysis, and resolution.
• Improve system reliability, observability, automation, scalability, and operational resilience.
• Implement automated health checks across operating systems, applications, databases, and PaaS services.
• Design and support high availability, disaster recovery, automated failover, and continuity-of-operations capabilities.
• Integrate SSO, MFA, IAM, RBAC, least-privilege access, and secrets management .
• Integrate security tooling such as SAST, DAST, SCA, CSPM, SIEM, and SBOM processes into DevSecOps pipelines.
• Build and maintain CI/CD and automated deployment pipelines.
• Automate infrastructure and operational activities using Terraform, CloudFormation, Python, Bash, PowerShell, or similar tools .
• Support containerized application and platform environments.
• Perform cloud infrastructure, database, and application performance tuning.
• Monitor CPU, memory, disk, network, application, database, and platform utilization.
• Develop operational thresholds, alerting rules, escalation procedures, and runbooks.
• Support canary releases and controlled deployment strategies.
• Perform FinOps, cloud cost analysis, forecasting, and optimization .
• Support security audits, compliance requirements, and operational documentation.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in systems engineering, cloud engineering, SRE, DevOps, platform engineering, or related technical roles.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field.
• Strong hands-on experience with AWS infrastructure and services , including compute, networking, storage, monitoring, and logging.
• Hands-on experience with Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, or comparable Infrastructure as Code technologies .
• Experience with monitoring/APM platforms such as CloudWatch, Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, New Relic, or similar tools .
• Strong experience with incident response, problem management, root-cause analysis, and production support.
• Experience with CI/CD and GitOps platforms such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab, or ArgoCD.
• Strong scripting experience using Python, Bash, or PowerShell .
• Experience implementing DevSecOps practices.
• Experience supporting containerized applications and cloud platforms.
• Experience with enterprise CI/CD build and release processes.
• Experience with cloud cost optimization and FinOps practices.
• Familiarity with federal security/compliance frameworks such as FedRAMP, NIST, or similar frameworks preferred.

Preferred Certifications

AWS SysOps Administrator, AWS Solutions Architect, AWS DevOps Engineer, ITIL, Google Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer, or related cloud/SRE certifications.