Site Reliability Engineer - AWS

Job Title: Site Reliability Engineer AWS

Location: NY



Work Mode: Onsite/Hybrid



Engagement: C2C Contract



Experience: 6+ Years Job Summary

We are seeking an experienced Site Reliability Engineer with strong Amazon Web Services expertise to build, automate, monitor, and support highly available cloud platforms.

The ideal candidate should have hands-on experience with Amazon Web Services, Kubernetes, ECS/Fargate, Infrastructure as Code, observability, incident management, and production reliability.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate scalable and highly available cloud infrastructure on Amazon Web Services.

• Deploy and manage containerized applications using Kubernetes, ECS, and Fargate.

• Automate infrastructure provisioning using Terraform and CloudFormation.

• Define and monitor Service-Level Indicators, Service-Level Objectives, and Service-Level Agreements.

• Implement monitoring, logging, tracing, alerting, and observability solutions.

• Develop dashboards using Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, CloudWatch, or Datadog.

• Participate in incident response, troubleshooting, and production-support activities.

• Conduct root-cause analysis and document corrective and preventive actions.

• Automate repetitive operational activities using Python, Bash, or Go.

• Build and maintain Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment pipelines.

• Improve application availability, performance, scalability, security, and cost efficiency.

• Perform capacity planning, performance testing, and reliability assessments.

• Support disaster recovery, backup, business continuity, and failover processes.

• Collaborate with developers, cloud architects, security teams, and business stakeholders.

• Prepare operational documentation, architecture diagrams, and production runbooks.

Required Skills

• 6+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, cloud engineering, or production operations.

• Strong hands-on experience with Amazon Web Services.

• Experience with Kubernetes, Amazon ECS, and Fargate.

• Strong Infrastructure-as-Code experience using Terraform and CloudFormation.

• Experience with Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, CloudWatch, Datadog, or similar observability tools.

• Strong knowledge of Linux, networking, security, and distributed systems.

• Scripting or programming experience with Python, Bash, or Go.

• Experience with Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab Continuous Integration, or similar deployment tools.

• Strong understanding of incident management, root-cause analysis, and problem management.

• Knowledge of Service-Level Indicators, Service-Level Objectives, error budgets, and availability metrics.

• Excellent analytical, troubleshooting, communication, and collaboration skills.

Preferred Skills

• Experience with Amazon EKS, Lambda, Route 53, RDS, DynamoDB, S3, IAM, and API Gateway.

• Knowledge of OpenTelemetry and distributed tracing.

• Experience with infrastructure security, vulnerability remediation, and DevSecOps.

• Experience supporting enterprise production environments.

• Relevant Amazon Web Services, Kubernetes, Terraform, or Site Reliability Engineering certifications.