Senior Site Reliability Engineer d/f/m

As a Senior SRE for the Kubernetes Platform, you will own and operate a central, automated EKS-based Kubernetes service across RWEST, enabling development teams to focus on applications. You will shape platform standards, lifecycle, security, and observability, driving reliability and ease of consumption. Join a cross-functional team tasked with evolving the platform to meet enterprise-scale needs. This role offers impact through building secure, self-service tooling and guardrails that scale across multiple squads.

• Operate and improve the central Amazon EKS platform, including day-2 operations, upgrades and support
• Provide a secure, self-service Kubernetes platform with automated guardrails for developers
• Contribute to platform standards across cluster config, monitoring, networking, security and lifecycle
• Maintain 24x7 operational model for Kubernetes and related services (GitHub Enterprise, Azure DevOps, JFrog, Elastic)
• Build automation, IaC and reusable platform patterns to reduce manual work
• Enhance observability through monitoring, logging, alerting and operational visibility
• Strengthen security and compliance via guardrails, governance and automated controls
• Collaborate with development squads for onboarding and platform adoption
• Contribute to incident response, RCAs and continuous platform improvement
• Document standards and establish the central SRE Platform Team as owner of shared services

• Extensive experience designing, operating and troubleshooting Kubernetes in production
• Strong understanding of cloud-native architectures and distributed systems
• Experience operating AWS and Kubernetes-based platforms at scale
• Experience designing secure, resilient, highly available production environments
• Strong knowledge of Kubernetes architecture, networking, storage, security and scheduling
• Experience managing platform lifecycle activities (upgrades, maintenance, readiness)
• Strong automation mindset with IaC and configuration as code
• Experience applying software engineering principles to infrastructure and operations
• Experience designing reusable, cross-team solutions
• Strong observability knowledge (metrics, logs, traces)
• Experience integrating security, governance and compliance
• Experience supporting production environments, incident response and continuous improvement
• Knowledge of modern software delivery and engineering automation
• Excellent analytical, troubleshooting and communication skills

• ownership mindset
• problem solving
• clear communication
• Kubernetes production operations
• AWS
• IaC (infrastructure as code)