Senior Site Reliability Engineer

As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer at First Resonance, you will play a pivotal role in enhancing the efficiency, scalability, and reliability of our software solutions. Joining the core Engineering team, you will contribute significantly to our reputation for delivering high-quality and robust software solutions. This role involves close collaboration with Engineering, IT teams, and customers to streamline our software development life cycle, ensuring the seamless operation of ION at every level.

Are you passionate about innovating in the fields of eVTOLs, rockets, robots, and autonomous vehicles? Your work as a Senior SRE will be crucial in empowering our customers to push the boundaries of technology confidently. From optimizing our CI/CD pipelines to ensuring system resilience, your efforts will be central to our mission of facilitating innovation in a dynamic industry.

Responsibilities & Duties

• Lead efforts to integrate SRE practices across the development lifecycle, enhancing automation, deployment, and monitoring capabilities.

• Work alongside development and IT teams to improve and maintain the operational aspects of the ION platform, including its performance, scalability, and reliability.

• Take charge of developing, deploying, and managing critical infrastructure components using containerization and orchestration tools like Docker and Kubernetes.

• Implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines, ensuring smooth and efficient deployment processes, comprehensive system monitoring and performance tracking.

• Promote best practices in continuous integration, continuous deployment, and infrastructure as code among the development team and stakeholders.

• Collaborate with the Engineering team to ensure that our products are designed with operability, reliability, and scalability in mind from the outset.

Minimum Qualifications & Skills

• Solid background in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.

• Demonstrated experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and managing microservices architectures.

• Extensive experience with cloud services. Ideally AWS

• Proficiency in managing secrets with Hashicorp Vault or similar tools

• Experience deploying solutions via Terraform, Helm, and/or ArgoCD

• Experience managing CI/CD pipelines (e.g GitHub Actions, CircleCI, CodeFresh)

• Experience with system observability tools (e.g. ELK Stack, Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog)

• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to convey complex security topics in layman's terms.

• Proficiency in scripting and programming languages relevant to security tasks.

Preferred Qualifications & Skills

• Understanding of the AWS well-architected framework

• Experience building AWS multi-account topologies

• A proactive mindset with a knack for identifying potential security risks before they become problems.

• Comfortable in a fast-paced, dynamic environment with a commitment to excellence.

• Familiarity with security certifications (SOC2, CMMC, etc) and certification process

Benefits & Perks

• Health Insurance; medical, vision, dental, & life insurance.

• Paid Parental Leave.

• Employee Stock Option Plan.

• Team outings, group lunches, open office, happy hours.

• Paid holidays, sick days.

• Flexible Friday and PTO.

• 401K.

First Resonance is an equal opportunity employer dedicated to building an inclusive and diverse workforce. 

First Resonance participates in E-Verify. As part of our onboarding process, a new hire's Form I-9 information will be shared with the federal government to confirm they are authorized to work in the U.S.