Sr Site Reliability Engineer
Job Summary
Renaissance is seeking an experienced Sr Site Reliability Engineer to join the Engineering Enablement group. The role focuses on enhancing the availability, reliability, observability, and security of a distributed SaaS platform serving millions of students. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams, implement infrastructure-as-code, and support CI/CD pipelines to ensure high-quality software delivery.
Responsibilities
- Improve system observability, reliability, and security
- Develop infrastructure-as-code (Terraform/CloudFormation)
- Maintain CI/CD pipelines and software release cycles
- Conduct Disaster Recovery exercises
- Participate in on-call rotations
Required Skills
- 5+ years SRE experience
- AWS EKS / Kubernetes
- IaC (Terraform, Ansible, Docker)
- Scripting (Python, Java, .NET)
- Agile methodology
Job Details
Responsibilities:
- Work with engineering, security & governance teams to improve observability, reliability, resiliency, and auditability of systems.
- Minimize and prevent downtime.
- Contribute to infrastructure-as-code using Terraform & CloudFormation.
- Support CI/CD pipelines to ensure the prompt release of high-quality software.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to resolve infrastructure issues.
- Perform Disaster Recovery exercises.
- Explore and integrate AI tooling into SRE workflows.
- Participate in an on-call rotation and support off-hour incidents & deployments.
Required Qualifications:
- 5+ years of experience focused on SRE.
- Experience in managing & monitoring containerized cloud environments in production (preferably AWS EKS).
- Experience with IaC, Configuration Management, and Orchestration Tools like Terraform, Docker, and Ansible.
- Hands-on experience in programming or scripting languages like .NET, Java, Python, or Javascript.
- Willingness to be on call during non-work hours and weekends.
- Experience working in an agile environment.
Preferred Qualifications (Bonus points):
- BS in Information Systems or Computer Science.
- Managing Kubernetes Clusters, EKS at Scale using Helm.
- Setting up Gitlab & Github pipelines & workflows.
- Experience with monitoring, logging, alerting & observability tools (NewRelic, Datadog, Grafana, CloudWatch, PagerDuty).
- Experience with Teleport, Hashicorp Boundary, RedShift, and OpenSearch/ZeroETL.
- Implementing service level objectives (SLO/SLI/SLA's) & error budgets.
- Experience using agentic coding tools like ClaudeCode.