Site Reliability Engineer

Axle Informatics

$140K — $155K *
Information Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 6+ years in DevOps/SRE roles with monitoring tools like Prometheus or Grafana
  • 4+ years hands-on experience with Linux systems such as Ubuntu or CentOS
  • 4+ years automating Infrastructure-as-Code deployments on AWS, GCP, or Azure
  • 4+ years with CI/CD tools like Terraform, Ansible, and Jenkins
  • Strong scripting skills in Python, Bash, or PowerShell
  • Experience with debug/troubleshoot SQL/NoSQL databases and modern programming stacks
  • Cloud certifications preferred.

Responsibilities

  • Design and implement monitoring and observability frameworks across distributed systems
  • Establish and manage SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets for reliability improvements
  • Develop real-time inventory systems across cloud and hybrid environments
  • Automate workload onboarding and offboarding for standardization
  • Build proactive detection using AIOps to minimize incidents
  • Design scalable and secure infrastructure platforms across cloud environments
  • Evangelize best practices in DevOps, SRE, and platform engineering.

Benefits

  • Collaborative and growth-oriented team culture
  • Opportunities for continuous learning and experimentation
  • Access to cutting-edge technologies for building innovative solutions
  • Flexibility in shaping multi-cloud and platform engineering solutions
  • Dynamic work environment that encourages cross-functional leadership
Full Job Description


The Site Reliability Engineer role centers on modernizing and consolidating a complex multi-cloud environment across AWS, Azure, and GCP, building a scalable, secure, and observable platform from the ground up using Kubernetes, AI/ML infrastructure, and zero-trust principles. You'll combine DevOps and SRE practices to support mission-driven scientific and clinical programs, emphasizing automation, reliability, compliance, and proactive monitoring while enabling innovation through AI-driven tooling. The team culture is highly collaborative and growth-oriented, valuing experimentation, continuous learning, and cross-functional leadership, with opportunities to shape future multi-cloud and platform engineering solutions.

Responsibilities:
  • Design and implement enterprise-grade monitoring and observability frameworks (metrics, logs, traces) across distributed systems using enterprise Splunk, Grafana and Open-telemetry tools
  • Establish and manage SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets to drive reliability improvements
  • Develop and maintain real-time asset inventory systems across cloud, on-prem, and hybrid environments
  • Automate workload onboarding and offboarding processes, ensuring standardization and governance
  • Track system ownership, dependencies, and lifecycle states for operational transparency
  • Build proactive detection mechanisms using AIOps and intelligent alerting to minimize incident impact
  • Design and operate scalable, resilient, and secure infrastructure platforms across cloud and hybrid environments
  • Implement automated compliance tracking and enforcement aligned with organizational and regulatory standards (e.g., NIST, FISMA, FedRAMP)
  • Embed ITIL processes (incident, change, problem, configuration management) into SRE workflows
  • Build and maintain automated deployment environments and pipelines that enforce security, compliance, and operational standards
  • Develop "golden paths" and standardized platform templates for consistent workload deployment
  • Automate provisioning, patching, configuration management, and environment lifecycle
  • Leverage AI/ML coding assistants and vibe coding practices to rapidly develop automation scripts, tools, and internal platforms
  • Integrate AI-driven tooling into DevOps pipelines for code quality, security scanning, and operational insights
  • Lead adoption of AI-enhanced SRE practices, including intelligent remediation and predictive operations
  • Champion DevOps and SRE practices including Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD, observability, and reliability engineering
  • Build developer-friendly platforms ("golden paths") that simplify deployments, reduce friction, and improve velocity
  • Enable and optimize infrastructure for AI/ML workloads, including data pipelines, storage systems, and inference environments, GPU-enabled and high-performance compute workloads
  • Build and manage containerized and orchestrated platforms (Docker, Kubernetes)
  • Support cloud migration, modernization, and platform standardization initiatives
  • Ensure systems meet security, compliance, backup, and disaster recovery requirements
  • Evangelize and promote best practices in DevOps, SRE, and platform engineering to developer communities
  • Stay abreast of new technologies in your areas but not limited to AIOps, MLOps, cloud computing & deployment, site reliability engineering, infrastructure automation, security best practices, data engineering etc.

Requirements:
  • Must have total of 6+ experience DevOps / SRE roles with monitoring and observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, or cloud-native equivalents) for on-prem and cloud hosted workloads.
  • Must have 4+ years of Hands-on Linux experience that includes Ubuntu/CentOS/Red Hat operating systems, containers, dependency management and administration support
  • Must have 4+ years of experience automating Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) deployments to one of the following cloud platforms Amazon AWS, Google GCP and Microsoft Azure
  • Must have 4+ years with CI/CD and automation tools such as Terraform, Ansible, Chef, Puppet, Jenkins, GitHub Actions
  • Strong scripting skills (Python, Bash, PowerShell or similar)
  • Must be proficient using vibe coding and coding assistants to develop scripts, tools and applications for the DevOps and SRE use cases
  • Must have proficiency to debug or troubleshoot and/or deploying SQL and/or NoSQL databases, object storage, web servers, open-source programming stack for Node.JS, R, Python, .NET Core, Java is desired but not mandatory
  • Must be willing to learn new technologies, adopt and adapt to emerging technologies or needs from a project to a project
  • Cloud certifications is preferred
  • Certifications in Grafana, Splunk, Docker, Kubernetes is preferred but optional


Disclaimer: The above description is meant to illustrate the general nature of work and level of effort being performed by individuals assigned to this position or job description. This is not restricted as a complete list of all skills, responsibilities, duties, and/or assignments required. Individuals may be required to perform duties outside of their position, job description or responsibilities as needed.

This role has a market-competitive salary with an anticipated base compensation range listed below. Actual salaries will vary depending on a candidate's experience, qualifications, skills, and location.

Salary Range

$140,000-$155,000 USD

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