Senior Site Reliability Engineer for Infrastructure Automation

NexGen Media

Contract · Flexible hours

About the role

NexGen Media is scaling its real‑time video delivery platform and needs a senior Site Reliability Engineer to design and implement resilient, automated operations. You will own reliability for critical services, ensure high performance, and support rapid feature delivery.

Key responsibilities

• Design and implement monitoring, alerting, and incident response for micro‑service architecture.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning and configuration using IaC tools.
• Optimize CI/CD pipelines for faster, reliable deployments.
• Collaborate with developers to improve application observability and fault tolerance.
• Conduct capacity planning and performance tuning on cloud resources.
• Document runbooks and standard operating procedures.

Must-have skills

• Deep experience with AWS services and networking.
• Strong proficiency in Docker and Kubernetes orchestration.
• Extensive background in Linux system administration.
• Expertise in Terraform or CloudFormation for IaC.
• Proven track record of incident management and root‑cause analysis.

Nice to have

• Experience with Prometheus/Grafana monitoring stacks.
• Familiarity with serverless architectures.