Lead Site Reliability Engineer

R Systems is searching for an experienced Lead Site Reliability Engineer to join our team of innovators!

Are you passionate about building and maintaining large-scale, high-performing, and resilient infrastructure? Do you thrive in environments where you can lead the design, automation, and reliability of mission-critical systems? If so, we’d love to meet you!

We’re looking for a Lead Site Reliability Engineer with 10+ years of experience managing complex production environments, strong hands-on skills with AWS, Ruby, Terraform, Kubernetes, and observability tools like Datadog or NewRelic.

In this role, you’ll work cross-functionally with Dev, QA, and Product teams, drive root cause analysis for major incidents, automate infrastructure and deployments, and ensure our systems are fault-tolerant, scalable, and cost-efficient.

If you’re a critical thinker with a proactive mindset and a drive to continuously improve systems at scale — we want to hear from you.

Ready to take the lead in shaping reliable infrastructure?
Apply now or get in touch to learn more!

Your contribution:

Administration of Linux machines, Web servers, Application servers, Databases
Application and cloud infrastructure support for customer environments.
Automating infrastructure provisioning, application deployments, and other repetitive
tasks to improve efficiency and reduce manual effort.
Ability to develop and implement long-term DevOps strategies aligned with business
goals.
Provide application support / development support on Ruby applications.
Own end-to-end availability and performance of mission critical services and build
automation to prevent problem recurrence.
Tools development and automation to increase availability and performance
Ensuring the data, services and infrastructures are reliable, fault-tolerant, efficiently
scalable and cost-effective
Collaborate with Product and Release engineering for new product releases and
maintenance.
Working closely with development, QA, and operations teams to ensure seamless
collaboration and efficient workflows
Coordinate incident, problem and change management.
Participate in on-call rotation for after-hours emergencies

Bring along:

Bachelor’s Degree with 10+ years of professional experience handling large scale
production systems.
Experience with AWS or comparable cloud providers with certification.
Experience in designing of new services on AWS or comparable cloud provider, migration of services to cloud and deployment of new services on AWS or comparable
cloud provider.
Hands on experience with Ruby, Terraform and configuration management tools like Chef, Ansible or equivalent.
Experience in application support/development on Ruby
Hands on experience on completing RCA [Root cause analysis] of the major incidents.
Excellent knowledge of large scale web applications/distributed systems.
Experience in Kubernetes, Docker, and/or cloud deployment technologies.
Experience in observability tools like NewRelic, Datadog etc
Expertise in problem solving and analyzing global scale distributed systems.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
Critical thinking, continuously challenging how and why we do things to help us improve

What's in it for you:

Hybrid work policy

A hybrid work policy, to promote and improve work-life balance! We’ll also provide the proper work equipment to ensure there is no digital barrier you can’t break.

Health coverage

Stay healthy and feel always in safe hands with full access to private medical subscription.

Professional development

Keep your knowledge fresh and achieve your professional goals, with free and unlimited access to Udemy online learning platform. We also provide 5 days off yearly to enjoy these courses plus, paid study holiday for bachelor students.

Building a community

If you know some awesome & talented innovators, recommend them to us and you’re in for a neat referral bonus. We also hope you’ll genuinely like us enough to stick around and enjoy our long-term contribution rewards.

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People-centered offices

Our offices are not only hip and cool, with private and co-working spaces, but also situated in central city locations, so that you can get there easily. Coming to the office is also a great opportunity to enjoy some fun activities in the company of your colleagues.

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Food for thought

To feed both your body and brain, we like to organize occasional Lunch & Learn sessions. If these leave you hungry for more, you can always enroll in our mentoring & coaching sessions.

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Healthy rivalry

Running shoes are not included in your welcome kit, but you may need to get a pair ASAP because we take our (inter)company sports competitions very seriously. And if you're competitive but sports are not your forte, you can always join our hackathons or reading marathons.

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A chance to give back

If you’re a charitable soul like us you’ll enjoy planting trees, baking cakes, playing chess, crafting, or donating to a cause in our social community events.

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Lots of fun

Our awesome people may be spread across many countries & cities, but we like to team up for some fun as often as we can. Be it team buildings, parties, or other team events, we take on every opportunity to meet and strengthen our sense of community.

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Who we are as a company:

R Systems is a global technology and analytics services company. We help our clients achieve speed-to-market, overcome digital barriers, and create business value with our specialized service offerings and consultative business approach.

We speak the language of business as fluently as we do the language of technology. In other words: We speak Digital. Our goal: accelerate our clients’ digital leadership.