Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Platform Engineering

Vultr Cares

• 100% company-paid insurance premiums for employee medical, dental and vision plans. 

• 401(k) plan that matches 100% up to 4%, with immediate vesting

• Professional Development Reimbursement of $2,500 each year

• 11 Holidays + Paid Time Off Accrual + Rollover Plan 

• Commitment matters to Vultr! Increased PTO at 3 year and 10 year anniversary + 1 month paid sabbatical every 5 years + Anniversary Bonus each year

• $500 stipend for remote office setup in first year + $400 each following year

• Internet reimbursement up to $75 per month

• Gym membership reimbursement up to $50 per month

• Company paid Wellable subscription

Join Vultr

Vultr is seeking a highly skilled and experienced Senior Site Reliability Engineer to report to the Site Reliability Engineering Manager.  The ideal candidate is a motivated, self-starter who is excited about observability, automating toil, and . This is a highly visible role in a high-growth technology company, which will require experience with Grafana, Mimir, Loki, Kafka, OpenTelemetry, Debian-based Linux Distributions, Networking, and SLO/SLI. This is your opportunity to join our fast growing team and leave your mark on Constant and the future of Cloud Infrastructure.

Key Responsibilities

• Configuration Management: Write and maintain configuration code in Puppet.

• Infrastructure-as-Code: Help define our existing infrastructure as code so it’s easy to rebuild.

• Toil Automation: Take manual processes and automate them providing efficiencies in the way we manage our services.

• Grafana Dashboarding: Get hands on with data producing visual representations of our systems and services.

• Collaboration: Work closely with other engineering teams to align development efforts with reliability, scalability, and business objectives.

• Documentation: Produce high-quality documentation for the systems and services the team is responsible for.

Qualifications

• Experience writing configuration code for Puppet, Chef, or Salt. 

• Experience automating manual processes in Ansible or Python.

• Experience troubleshooting Kubernetes deployments.

• Experience with time-series databases such as Graphite, Mimir, Loki. 

• Experience operating Observability Pipelines using OpenTelemetry and Kafka.

• Experience with Monitoring and Alerting tools such as Grafana and Icinga.

• Proven problem-solving skills with the ability to address complex technical challenges.

• Effective communication and collaboration abilities to work cross-functionally with teams and stakeholders.

• A commitment to continuous learning and fostering a culture of technical excellence.

Compensation

$120,000 - $130,000

This salary can vary based on location, years of experience, background and skill set.