
Senior Site Reliability Engineer
Gridware
The Role
Overview
Design, build, and maintain scalable, secure AWS infrastructure with Kubernetes and CI/CD.
Key Responsibilities
- kafka streaming
- aws infra
- kubernetes
- terraform iac
- ci/cd
- observability
Tasks
We are seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to design, build, and maintain the infrastructure powering our modern, cloud-native applications. In this role, you will design and implement scalable and secure platforms on AWS, leveraging Kubernetes (EKS) and ArgoCD for GitOps-driven deployments. You’ll be responsible for building and optimizing CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions, managing event streaming with Amazon MSK, and maintaining reliable relational databases on RDS. You will own our Infrastructure as Code strategy with Terraform and drive best practices around security, identity management (IdP integrations), and cost optimization. You will also play a key role in observability and platform reliability, building and maintaining monitoring and logging solutions with tools like Grafana, Loki, and Prometheus to ensure system performance and resilience. The successful candidate will work closely with our Cloud Security Engineer to enforce security standards, implement best practices, and ensure compliance across the infrastructure stack. This is a highly collaborative position where you’ll partner with engineering teams to deliver reliable environments, automate deployments, and improve developer velocity while staying ahead of modern DevOps and cloud-native practices. -Build and support Kafka-based event streaming platforms using Amazon MSK for high-throughput, low-latency data pipelines. -Design, build, and maintain scalable, secure, and highly available infrastructure on AWS (EKS, EC2, RDS,MSK, S3, VPC …). -Manage and optimize Kubernetesclusters (EKS) and deploy applications using ArgoCD with GitOps best practices. -Define and manage Infrastructure as Code with Terraform -Monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize system performance, cost, and reliability using observability tools like Grafana and Loki. -Implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines usingGitHub Actions (GHA), ensuring fast, reliable, and automated software delivery. -Manage identity and access across platforms with IdP integration (Okta, Auth0, or similar).
Requirements
- kubernetes
- argocd
- terraform
- github actions
- aws
- kafka
What You Bring
-Deep knowledge of Kubernetes administration and GitOps tools like ArgoCD. -Proficiency with Infrastructure as Code with Terraform -Hands-on experience with CI/CD automation and pipelines (preferably GitHub Actions). -Strong understanding of networking, security best practices, and IdP-driven access control. -5+ years in DevOps/SRE/Platform Engineering, with production experience in AWS infrastructure management. -Ability to debug complex production issues across infrastructure, deployment, and networking layers. -Familiarity with Databricks o rML Ops pipelines for data and model deployment. -Expertise in running and maintaining distributed systems such as Kafka on MSK and relational databases (RDS). -Knowledge of multi-cloud or hybrid cloud environments and container security tools. -Experience with monitoring and logging solutions (Grafana,Loki, Prometheus, or similar). -Experience with Terragrunt
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Benefits
Health, Dental & Vision (Gold and Platinum with some providers plans fully covered) “Off the Grid”, a two week per year paid break for all employees. Paid parental leave Commuter allowance Company-paid training Alternating day off (every other Monday)
The Company
About Gridware
-Founded by a former lineman and two Berkeley engineers to revolutionize power grid awareness. -Flagship Gridscope device provides edge analytics and alerts even during outages. -Technology integrates multiple types of sensing to detect hazards like fallen limbs. -After a pilot with PG&E, expanded operations across North America. -Physical tests include extreme conditions like live wire cutting to optimize hazard detection. -Combines solar-powered, ruggedized sensors with a cloud-independent analytics system.
Sector Specialisms
Electrical Grid
Utilities
Energy
Telecommunications
Environmental Monitoring
Grid Management
Infrastructure
Power Delivery
Safety and Reliability
Climate Tech
