Senior Site Reliability Engineer for Release Pipeline Hardening Workstream

Cascade Apps

Contract · Remote · Flexible hours

About the role

Cascade Apps is modernizing its customer‑facing platform to achieve sub‑second latency and 99.99% uptime. As a Site Reliability Engineer you will lead the performance and reliability overhaul, focusing on the new "PulseStream" service layer that powers real‑time analytics for clients.

Key responsibilities

• Instrument PulseStream with OpenTelemetry, create dashboards in Grafana, and set SLOs for latency and error rates.
• Automate failover testing in AWS using Terraform and Chaos Monkey scripts to validate resilience.
• Refactor CI/CD pipelines in GitHub Actions to include canary deployments and automated rollback triggers.
• Optimize Kubernetes pod autoscaling policies (HPA/VPA) based on custom metrics from Prometheus.
• Collaborate with backend teams to rewrite critical endpoints in Go, reducing average response time by 30%.

Must-have skills

• Extensive experience with Kubernetes and container orchestration.
• Proficiency in AWS services (EC2, RDS, S3, CloudWatch).
• Strong scripting skills in Bash/Python for automation.
• Deep understanding of SRE principles, monitoring, and incident response.
• Hands‑on with Terraform or CloudFormation for IaC.

Nice to have

• Experience with Service Mesh technologies (Istio, Linkerd).
• Familiarity with chaos engineering tools.