Site Reliability Engineer

Role Description

We’re seeking an experienced, highly collaborative SRE to partner with product teams

and tackle our most critical infrastructure challenges. You’ll be hands-on in designing,

building, and operating our cloud platform—and driving the reliability, performance, and

security that empower our engineering organization.

As a Site Reliability Engineer at DrumWave, you will:

● Infrastructure as Code & CI/CD: Automate provisioning and deployments with

Terraform and integrate best-practice pipelines (GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, etc.).

● Reliability Engineering: Define SLIs/SLOs, manage error budgets, and build

dashboards & alerts to proactively measure and improve system health.

● Security & Compliance: Enforce least-privilege IAM policies, automate

vulnerability scans, and maintain audit logging for compliance.

● Monitoring & Observability: Instrument services with metrics, logs, and

distributed tracing to enable rapid troubleshooting, aid teams in alerting, custom

metrics, and dashboarding

● Incident Management: Own on-call rotations, lead real-time incident response,

conduct post-mortems, and drive continuous improvements.

● Cost Optimization: Implement tagging strategies, right-size resources, and

leverage concrete data to decide on optimal methods to control cloud spend at

scale.

● Documentation & Mentorship: Author runbooks, standards, and best-practice

guides—and coach dev teams on implementing modern DevOps, reliability, and

security patterns.

Qualifications

● Have 5+ years of experience running production critical systems

● Deep proficiency with the AWS Cloud and Cloud-Native best practices

● Experience with Kubernetes (EKS, GKE) and Container Orchestration at scale

● Skilled in Terraform to declaratively provision and maintain infrastructure

services

● Working knowledge of managing and debugging databases like Redis and

Postgres

● Strong familiarity with VPC, VPN, Load Balancing, and cloud networking

components

● Proficiency with Git workflows, branching strategies, and CI/CD system

integrations

● Solid understanding of web and network protocols and standards (HTTP, REST,

TLS, DNS, etc...)

Nice to Have’s:

● Bachelor's degree, or equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related

field.

● Experience with ArgoCD, Github Actions, Jenkins, or other CI/CD pipeline

solutions

● Working knowledge of Python, Golang, and Helm templating languages

● Node.js experience a plus, including running scalable, resilient Node

microservices

● Grasp of foundational security best practices for cloud infrastructure

● Awareness of Terragrunt, managing Terraform state, and optimal project

structure

● Seasoned in production readiness fundamentals amidst a fast moving team

Industry

● Technology, Information and Internet