Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Why Lytx:
Join our dynamic and passionate team of driven, low-ego engineers who are at the forefront of designing and supporting cutting-edge IoT infrastructure. As we rapidly grow and transition to the cloud, we're diving into the exciting realms of "Operations as Code," "Infrastructure as Code," and innovative infrastructure automation.
 

Our Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team is pivotal in ensuring the availability, reliability,
observability, and resilience of Lytx’ services, both on-premises and in the cloud. We're not just keeping the lights on—we're engineering the future of our business's continuity.
If you're energized by crafting transformative solutions and excel at designing robust, detailed cloud infrastructure with a focus on continuous improvement, this could be the perfect role for you!
Responsibilities:
• System Design and Architecture: Design, implement, and maintain scalable and reliable
systems, ensuring they can handle both current and future demands.
• Incident Management: Lead incident response efforts, diagnose root causes, and
implement long-term solutions to prevent recurrence. Ensure effective communication
during outages.
• Monitoring and Observability: Develop and maintain comprehensive monitoring and
alerting systems to proactively identify and address issues before they impact users.
• Automation and Efficiency: Automate repetitive tasks and processes to improve
operational efficiency and reduce manual intervention.
• Performance Tuning: Continuously optimize system performance, including fine-tuning
applications, databases, and infrastructure to meet service level objectives (SLOs).
• Capacity Planning: Forecast future system requirements based on growth trends and
current usage, and plan capacity upgrades to ensure system reliability.
• Collaboration and Mentoring: Work closely with development teams to integrate
reliability into the software development lifecycle. Mentor junior SREs and share best
practices.

Documentation and Knowledge Sharing: Create and maintain detailed documentation on
system design, incident response procedures, and operational practices to ensure
knowledge is preserved and accessible.
Requirements:
• 5+ years of experience as an SRE within AWS environments at medium to large-scale
organizations.
• 5+ years of hands-on experience implementing and managing observability tools, such
as Prometheus, New Relic, Grafana, or similar.
• Advanced programming skills in Python, Groovy, and Bash.
• Strong understanding of database technologies, including both SQL and NoSQL
systems.
• 3+ years of experience developing and managing infrastructure deployment pipelines
using Git, Terraform, Helm, Jenkins/Jenkins X/ArgoCD, or similar tools.
• Proven expertise in designing, evaluating, and supporting production environments in
AWS, including VPCs, EKS, IAM, AMI, EC2, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, Control Tower,
GuardDuty, MSK, S3, Glacier, Gateways, Direct Connect, Route 53, RDS, ALBs,
Autoscaling, and more.
• Hands-on experience with Linux systems and protocols and technologies such as HTTP,
REST, TCP/IP, SSL, DNS, SMTP, SSH, NTP, Load Balancing, SQL/NoSQL, Message
Brokers, Nginx, Vault, etc.
• Extensive experience with Kubernetes and various container and cloud-native
technologies.
• Significant experience in managing 24/7 on-call rotations, creating runbooks,
establishing support procedures, and proactively monitoring systems across multiple
geographic locations.
• Ability to thrive under pressure and excel in a technically challenging environment.

Innovation Lives Here

You go all in no matter what you do, and so do we. At Lytx, we’re powered by cutting-edge technology and Happy People. You want your work to make a positive impact in the world, and that’s what we do. Join our diverse team of hungry, humble and capable people united to make a difference.

Together, we help save lives on our roadways.

Find out how good it feels to be a part of an inclusive, collaborative team. We’re committed to delivering an environment where everyone feels valued, included and supported to do their best work and share their voices.

Lytx, Inc. is proud to be an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer and maintains a drug-free workplace. We’re committed to attracting, retaining and maximizing the performance of a diverse and inclusive workforce. EOE/M/F/Disabled/Vet.