USA remote
Senior Site Reliability Engineer II
About this role
BASIC FUNCTION The Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) is a developer with a strong operations mindset, responsible for ensuring the reliability, availability, and scalability of Lumin Digital’s applications. This role focuses on eliminating manual tasks through automation, maintaining Service Level Objectives (SLO), and closely collaborating with Software Engineers (SWE) to implement and maintain best practices for large-scale systems.
The ideal candidate thrives in solving complex problems, automating processes, and creating resilient systems. ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS AND RESPONSIBILITIES: - Design, build, test, and document software solutions to site reliability challenges. - Design, implement, and manage CI/CD pipelines to improve deployment efficiency. - Monitor and resolve issues in all environments, ensuring SLO and uptime targets are consistently met.
- Collaborate with Software Engineers to address SRE concerns during feature design and deployment. - Build, maintain, and support the local development environment on macOS and Windows. - Participate in capacity planning and demand forecasting to proactively address performance bottlenecks and scalability needs. - Perform change management to maintain system stability and minimize disruptions. - Generate uptime and SLO reports for internal review and leadership visibility.
- Engage in SRE scrum team activities to drive agile development processes. - Ensure security best practices are followed, safeguarding data integrity and system resilience. - Perform other duties as assigned. WHERE THE ROLE WILL GROW: - 30 Days: Understand the architecture, monitoring tools, and CI/CD pipelines currently in use. Begin participating in SRE team activities and resolving basic operational issues. - 90 Days: Take ownership of monitoring and alerting systems, improve system and infrastructure software automation, improve incident response processes, and contribute to SLO reporting.
- 1 Year: Deliver measurable improvements in system reliability, scaling capabilities, and automation processes. Take a leadership role in SRE best practices and mentor junior team members. PHYSICAL DEMANDS: - While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly required to sit; use hands to type, handle, or feel and talk or hear - Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision - Ability to occasionally lift/move up to 25 pounds - Individuals with a disability who are otherwise able to perform the essential functions of the job may request reasonable accommodation through the Human Resources department.