Senior Site Reliability Engineer I

Senior Site Reliability Engineer I

Join Our Team—Shape the Future of Aviation Analytics! Are you excited to collaborate with people from a wide range of backgrounds and experiences? Do you value a supportive, inclusive team environment where your perspective is respected?

At Cirium, we strive to keep the world connected through the power of aviation analytics. Our work enables airlines, airports, travel companies, technology providers, aircraft manufacturers, financial institutions, and many more to drive digital transformation in aviation. Learn more about Cirium: https://www.cirium.com/

Our teams, called Squads, are made up of individuals with diverse skills—Squad Leads, Business Analysts, Development Leads, Developers, and Testers—collaborating closely to deliver innovative solutions. We are committed to fostering a sense of belonging for everyone and value the unique perspectives each person brings.

About the Role

This Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) position offers the opportunity to work on impactful projects that enhance reliability and reduce manual work through automation. You'll leverage your experience across a range of SRE practices, helping to maintain resilient, distributed systems and automate processes to protect critical services. As an SRE, you'll participate in on-call rotations and offer guidance and support to your colleagues. Your insights and process improvements will help shape our inclusive culture of technical excellence and continuous learning.

Responsibilities

• Lead efforts to automate manual and repetitive tasks, contributing to resilient and reliable systems.
• Develop and implement self-healing infrastructure solutions to drive operational efficiency and reduce incidents.
• Create and maintain automation and tools to promote system performance and uptime.
• Support post-release validation and operational readiness for new deployments.
• Provide occasional support outside of standard hours as needed for major releases or critical changes, with consideration for work-life balance.
• Design infrastructure following best practices for scalability, fault tolerance, and security.
• Define and manage Service Level Indicators (SLIs) and Service Level Objectives (SLOs) to partner with teams in ensuring reliable services.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to enhance deployment pipelines and make recommendations for improved architecture, release speed, and productivity.

Requirement

• Professional experience in a Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, or related technical role (all relevant pathways and learning experiences welcomed).
• Cloud Platform Familiarity: Especially with AWS services such as EC2, Lambda, DynamoDB, Aurora RDS PostgreSQL, and AWS OpenSearch. Experience with similar platforms is also valued.
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Hands-on experience (preferably 2 or more years) with tools like Terraform, or similar, to automate and manage cloud resources.
• Experience with containerization, using Docker, with Kubernetes skills considered a plus.
• Familiarity with configuration management tools such as Puppet, Ansible, or comparable systems.
• Experience with monitoring, alerting, and observability tools (e.g., Elastic Search, Grafana, Open Telemetry, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, TeamCity, Jenkins).
• Relevant certifications in AWS, Kubernetes, or related areas are appreciated but not required.

We encourage applications from candidates of all backgrounds, including those who may not meet every listed qualification. If you are passionate about site reliability and eager to contribute, we want to hear from you.