Site Reliability Engineer

R Systems is searching for an experienced 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 Senior Site Reliability Engineer with 8+ 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:

Led the migration of legacy AWS workloads to Amazon EKS (Elastic Kubernetes Service), leveraging Terraform for reproducible infrastructure and Helm for application packaging.
Provide weekend support for migration activities.
Developed Python and Bash-based automation to streamline containerization, secret management (AWS Secrets Manager), and resource tagging.
Implemented deep-trace monitoring using Observability tools to maintain visibility during and after the migration process.
Acted as the primary point of contact for resolving K8s-specific incidents, including Pod CrashLoopBackOffs, OOMKills, and VPC CNI networking issues.
Managed the full incident lifecycle—from real-time weekend troubleshooting to Post-Mortem analysis—to build automated guardrails against recurrence.
Working closely with development, QA, and operations teams to ensure seamless collaboration and efficient workflows
Coordinate incidents, problems and change management.
Participate in on-call rotation for after-hours emergencies

Bring along:

Bachelor’s Degree with 8+ years of professional experience handling large scale production systems.
Hands on experience in Designing and Deploying EKS / AKS Clusters
Understanding of Kubernetes security best practices, including RBAC, network policies, and PodSecurityPolicies.
Identifying and resolving issues related to Kubernetes, networking, storage, and application deployments.
Experience in migrating workloads to Kubernetes
Experience with AWS or comparable cloud providers with certification.
Hands on experience with Ruby, Terraform and configuration management tools like Chef, Ansible or equivalent.
Excellent knowledge of large-scale web applications/distributed systems.
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.

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.

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