Cloud DevOps & SRE Engineer

Zact

$120K — $150K *
Enterprise Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years experience in Site Reliability Engineering or DevOps.
  • Strong expertise in Kubernetes (GKE preferred) for container orchestration.
  • Solid proficiency with Google Cloud (GCP), hands-on experience with gcloud.
  • Proficient in scripting languages such as Python or Bash.
  • Deep expertise in managing observability tools, specifically Google Cloud Operations Suite.

Responsibilities

  • Champion reliability and uptime by defining and maintaining SLOs and SLIs.
  • Design, implement, and maintain Infrastructure as Code across multiple environments.
  • Manage incident response and post-mortems for complex issues.
  • Implement and manage advanced observability stacks to ensure infrastructure reliability.
  • Collaborate with development teams to optimize deployment workflows and scalable architecture.

Benefits

  • Fully remote work culture with a focus on US time zones.
Full Job Description
Where You Are

We are a fully remote company with a focus on hiring during US timezones. While we embrace a remote-first culture, time zones will be an important consideration for collaboration.
What You'll Do
  • Champion reliability and uptime: Define, measure, and maintain Service Level Objectives (SLOs) and Service Level Indicators (SLIs) to ensure our cloud-native applications perform optimally.
  • Design, implement, and maintain Infrastructure as Code across multiple environments, primarily focusing on Google Cloud (GCP).
  • Manage incident response and blameless post-mortems, troubleshooting complex systemic issues and building automation to prevent recurrences.
  • Implement and manage advanced observability stacks (monitoring, logging, alerting, and distributed tracing) to ensure infrastructure reliability and proactive issue detection.
  • Collaborate with development teams to streamline application deployment workflows, optimize capacity planning, and enforce best practices for scalable architecture.
Required Skills
  • 5+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering or DevOps, with a deep understanding of cloud infrastructure, high availability, and distributed systems.
  • Strong expertise with Kubernetes (GKE preferred) for container orchestration, including hands-on experience with Helm for deployment management.
  • Solid proficiency with Google Cloud (GCP) and hands-on experience using gcloud. Experience with AWS or Azure is also valuable.
  • Proficient in scripting languages such as Python or Bash.
  • Deep expertise in setting up and managing observability tools, specifically Google Cloud Operations Suite (Cloud Logging, Cloud Monitoring, Cloud Trace) and Google Managed Service for Prometheus.
  • Excellent problem-solving and troubleshooting skills under pressure.
Preferred Skills
  • Familiarity with configuration management tools (e.g., Terraform, OpenTofu).
  • Experience with automated incident management platforms (e.g., PagerDuty, Opsgenie).
  • Exposure to microservices architectures and best practices for resilient deployment.

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