SRE Sênior — Site Reliability Engineer
This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Senior SRE — Site Reliability Engineer based in Brazil.
Take on a key technical leadership role focused on the reliability, resilience, and stability of cloud infrastructure in AWS environments. As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer, you will help maintain critical systems, coordinate responses to high-priority incidents, and strengthen operational readiness across production environments. You will work closely with DevOps and engineering teams to manage high-risk changes, improve observability, and ensure effective contingency and rollback procedures. This role requires a hands-on approach to incident management, infrastructure troubleshooting, and continuous service improvement. You will also contribute to post-incident reviews and drive corrective actions that help prevent recurring issues. The position is fully remote and includes participation in scheduled on-call rotations, including nights, weekends, and holidays when required.
Accountabilities
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Lead and coordinate responses to critical incidents, particularly during nighttime hours, weekends, and holidays.
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Help maintain the reliability, availability, and operational stability of AWS-based infrastructure and production environments.
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Create, document, structure, and maintain runbooks, incident response guidelines, and contingency procedures.
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Conduct post-incident reviews, identify root causes, and track corrective and preventive actions through to completion.
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Provide technical guidance to DevOps teams during high-risk infrastructure changes and deployments.
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Support the planning and execution of rollback procedures to minimize service disruption and operational risk.
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Improve observability practices, monitoring systems, alerting strategies, and infrastructure capacity management.
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Troubleshoot complex issues across Kubernetes clusters, networking, Linux systems, cloud infrastructure, and databases.
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Monitor infrastructure performance and identify opportunities to improve resilience, scalability, and incident response efficiency.
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Participate in scheduled on-call and operational coverage rotations in accordance with established team arrangements.
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Collaborate with engineering and operations stakeholders to strengthen reliability practices and promote continuous improvement.
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Bachelor's degree and/or postgraduate education in a relevant field.
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Senior-level experience in Site Reliability Engineering, infrastructure operations, DevOps, or a related technical discipline.
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Advanced Kubernetes expertise, including production environments, Amazon EKS, kubectl, and troubleshooting pods and clusters.
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Advanced networking and connectivity knowledge, including Ingress and Egress configurations, network rules, and connectivity diagnostics.
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Advanced experience with Argo CD and Bitbucket in deployment, version control, or infrastructure management workflows.
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Advanced PostgreSQL knowledge, including database troubleshooting and performance analysis.
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Advanced AWS expertise, particularly with EC2, VPC, Security Groups, Load Balancers, S3, and RDS.
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Advanced Linux administration skills, including operating system troubleshooting and production environment support.
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Strong incident management capabilities, including coordinating critical responses, conducting post-incident analysis, and implementing corrective actions.
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Experience documenting operational procedures, maintaining runbooks, and developing effective contingency and rollback plans.
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Ability to assess the risks associated with production changes and work collaboratively with DevOps and engineering teams.
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Strong analytical thinking, technical problem-solving, communication, and decision-making skills, particularly under pressure.
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Availability to participate in scheduled on-call rotations, including coverage outside standard business hours.
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Fully remote work model.
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Full-time employment under a Brazilian CLT contract.
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Medical insurance.
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Dental insurance.
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Meal allowance.
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Opportunity to take on technical leadership responsibilities in cloud infrastructure reliability and production operations.