Site Reliability Engineer

Site Reliability Engineer — Position Summary

Adroit Affine is looking for a seasoned Site Reliability Engineer to own the reliability, performance and scalability of production systems serving enterprise clients across multiple industries and geographies. You will define and track SLOs, build automation to eliminate toil, lead incident response and partner with engineering teams to make services observable, resilient and self-healing.

Key Responsibilities
• Define, measure and report on SLOs, SLAs and error budgets for critical production services.
• Build and maintain observability infrastructure: metrics (Prometheus/Thanos), logging (ELK/Loki) and distributed tracing (Jaeger/Tempo).
• Lead incident triage, establish communication protocols and facilitate thorough post-incident reviews (PIRs).
• Identify and eliminate toil through automation using Python, Go or Bash.
• Partner with engineering teams during design to bake reliability into new services.
• Manage and optimise Kubernetes clusters (EKS, GKE or AKS) and related cloud infrastructure.
• Define capacity planning models and lead proactive performance testing and chaos engineering.
• Maintain and improve runbooks, incident response playbooks and SRE documentation.

Required Qualifications
• 4+ years of SRE, platform engineering or senior DevOps experience in production.
• Deep understanding of Linux systems, networking and distributed systems fundamentals.
• Strong proficiency with Kubernetes in production (scheduling, networking, storage, security policies).
• Hands-on experience with Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Jaeger or equivalents.
• Scripting / automation skills in Python, Go or Bash.
• Experience with at least one major cloud provider (AWS, GCP or Azure) at infrastructure depth.
• Demonstrated experience managing on-call rotations and high-severity incident response.

Preferred Qualifications
• CKA / CKAD or AWS/Google/Azure professional-level certification.
• Experience with chaos engineering tools (Chaos Monkey, LitmusChaos, Gremlin).
• Knowledge of eBPF-based observability (Cilium, Pixie).
• Familiarity with GitOps (ArgoCD, Flux) and progressive delivery (Flagger, Argo Rollouts).

Compensation & Benefits
• Salary: $75,000 – $125,000 based on experience.
• Comprehensive health, dental and vision insurance.
• On-call compensation and recognition program.
• Cloud / SRE certification reimbursement.
• Remote-friendly with a modern Phoenix, AZ office.
• High-trust environment with significant autonomy and ownership.