Site Reliability Engineer (SRE), Cloud Efficiency Engineer

Your Impact

• Optimize and manage cloud infrastructure costs, focusing on AWS and GCP.
• Shape the resilience, efficiency, and scalability of our services
• Partner with finance and engineering teams to align cloud spend with budget.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to ensure proper tagging and cost attribution.
• Identify and implement strategies to improve cloud resource utilization and efficiency.
• Innovate and enhance the infrastructure platform team’s product offerings to increase self service, improve cost optimization, and reduce toil
• Provide insights and recommendations on cloud cost trends and potential savings.
• Provide technical leadership and mentoring to your team and others
• Champion best practices in reliability, security, and cloud infrastructure to help cultivate a culture of high operational standards

Requirements

• At least 3 years of relevant professional experience. You probably have worked on a devops, infrastructure, SRE, and/or platform team before
• Have led large cross-team initiatives and can demonstrate a successful track record with quantifiable metrics that impact the business
• Strong communication skills. You can give and receive constructive feedback, and you do not shy away from planning meetings and code reviews
• Strong foundational knowledge of cloud platforms, particularly AWS and GCP.
• Expert knowledge in cloud cost optimization, monitoring, and reporting.
• Ability to develop scripts and tools for cost management and automation.
• Expert knowledge in all aspects of designing, deploying, and supporting large real-time systems
• Practical experience in shell scripting and demonstrable skills in at least one higher-level language
• Experience with distributed systems and container orchestration.
• Excellent communication, presentation and project management skills to drive initiatives across cross-functional teams.
• Familiar with most tools from our stack (see below)

Desired Qualifications

• Experience working remotely in a distributed team.
• Ability to scale systems sustainably through mechanisms like automation, and evolve systems by pushing for changes that improve reliability and velocity
• AWS and/or GCP certifications 
• Experience with FinOps principles and methodologies and cloud cost management tools (e.g., AWS Cost Explorer, CloudZero).
• Experience working cross-functionally with Finance to optimize cloud cost forecasting and budget adherence.
• Experience with setting team priorities (OKRs) and aligning business processes required to get a product/service from ideation to production (PRD, RFC, etc)
• A strong desire to grow and challenge yourself. We would expect you to constantly find ways to improve and automate services to reduce toil