Advanced Software Engr

Job description

The Advanced Software Engineer - Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) will be responsible for ensuring the reliability, scalability, security, and operational excellence of the Sparta SaaS platform. This role combines software engineering, cloud infrastructure, DevOps, and production support expertise to maintain highly available systems while driving automation and continuous improvement across the platform. The ideal candidate will possess strong hands-on experience with AWS cloud services, Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, observability platforms, identity management, database administration, and enterprise security technologies.

Responsibilities

Key Responsibilities

Site Reliability Engineering & Production Operations Ensure high availability, performance, and reliability of Sparta SaaS production environments. Monitor platform health and proactively address performance, scalability, and availability issues. Participate in 24x7 production support and on-call rotations. Lead incident response, root cause analysis (RCA), and post-incident reviews. Define and track Service Level Indicators (SLIs), Service Level Objectives (SLOs), and error budgets.

Cloud Infrastructure & AWS Services Design, deploy, and manage cloud-native solutions using AWS services.

Support and optimize

Amazon EKS Amazon RDS AWS Glue Amazon Bedrock EC2 VPC Networking Route 53 S3 CloudWatch IAM Backup and Disaster Recovery solutions Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and automation best practices. Observability & Monitoring Manage enterprise monitoring and observability platforms including: Datadog ELK Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana) CloudWatch Develop dashboards, alerts, and operational metrics. Analyze logs, traces, and application telemetry to identify issues and trends.

CI/CD & DevOps Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins. Implement deployment automation and release management processes. Support blue-green and rolling deployment strategies. Improve software delivery reliability and deployment efficiency. Identity & Security Manage authentication and authorization platforms including Keycloak. Implement secure access controls and identity federation. Collaborate with security teams to ensure compliance with corporate security policies.

Support vulnerability remediation and security hardening activities. Database Administration & Data Integration Support Amazon RDS environments including monitoring, performance tuning, backup, and recovery. Manage ETL and data integration processes using Informatica and AWS Glue. Ensure data integrity, availability, and performance across production environments. Networking & Infrastructure Security Troubleshoot network connectivity issues involving: DNS Load Balancers Routing Firewalls VPNs TLS/SSL Configure and support Check Point firewall infrastructure.

Collaborate with infrastructure teams to ensure secure and resilient network architecture. Change & Release Management Lead production change implementation and validation activities. Participate in CAB reviews and change approval processes. Ensure operational readiness and rollback planning for deployments. Drive automation to reduce operational risk and manual effort.

Qualifications

Qualifications

Required Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field. 6+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, Cloud Operations, or Production Support. Strong experience with AWS cloud services. Hands-on experience with Amazon EKS and Kubernetes. Experience with Jenkins and CI/CD automation. Experience with Datadog and ELK observability platforms. Experience with Amazon RDS administration and backup strategies.

Knowledge of networking concepts including TCP/IP, DNS, Load Balancing, Firewall Management, and VPN technologies. Experience supporting enterprise authentication platforms such as Keycloak. Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills in production environments. Experience working within ITIL-based Incident, Problem, and Change Management processes. Preferred Experience with AWS Glue and Amazon Bedrock. Experience with Informatica data integration solutions.

Check Point Firewall administration experience. AWS Certification (Solutions Architect, SysOps, or DevOps Engineer). Kubernetes Certification (CKA/CKAD). Experience supporting SaaS products in regulated environments.

Desired Skills

AWS Amazon EKS Amazon RDS AWS Glue Amazon Bedrock Informatica Keycloak Datadog ELK Stack Jenkins Kubernetes Linux Administration Production Support Change Management Disaster Recovery & Backup Networking Check Point Firewalls Automation & Scripting (Python, Bash, Terraform)