Contract: Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Why You'll Love This Role

As a Senior Site Reliability Contractor, you will be involved in coding infrastructure automation with Terraform and Github Actions CI/CD. In this role, you will focus on improving our monitoring using Datadog, Sentry, and Cloudwatch. It will be critical to improve and automate our release processes to deploy Newsela services. You will have the opportunity to develop a rapport with a domain of application developers to improve infrastructure and monitoring for Newsela services in their ownership.

What You'll Be Doing

• Be on an on-call rotation to respond to incidents that impact Newsela.com availability and provide support for developers during internal and external incidents.
• Maintain and assist in extending our infrastructure with Terraform, Github Actions CI/CD, Prefect, and AWS services.
• Build monitoring that alerts on symptoms rather than outages using Datadog, Sentry, and CloudWatch.
• Look for ways to turn repeatable manual actions into automations to reduce on-call toil.
• Improve operational processes (such as deployments, releases, migrations, etc.) to make them run seamlessly with fault tolerance in mind.
• Design, build and maintain core cloud infrastructure on AWS and GCP that enables scaling to support thousands of concurrent users.
• Debug production issues across services and levels of the stack.
• Provide infrastructure and architectural planning support as an embedded team member within a domain of Newsela’s application developers.
• Plan the growth of Newsela’s infrastructure.

About You

Technical

• Infrastructure as code: use Terraform and Github CI/CD for automation, containerize our environments (Docker, ECS), and leverage cloud technologies to meet our goals.