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Brasil
Remote only
This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Senior SRE — Site Reliability Engineer based in Brazil.
Take on a key technical leadership role focused on the reliability, resilience, and stability of cloud infrastructure in AWS environments. As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer, you will help maintain critical systems, coordinate responses to high-priority incidents, and strengthen operational readiness across production environments. You will work closely with DevOps and engineering teams to manage high-risk changes, improve observability, and ensure effective contingency and rollback procedures. This role requires a hands-on approach to incident management, infrastructure troubleshooting, and continuous service improvement. You will also contribute to post-incident reviews and drive corrective actions that help prevent recurring issues. The position is fully remote and includes participation in scheduled on-call rotations, including nights, weekends, and holidays when required.
Lead and coordinate responses to critical incidents, particularly during nighttime hours, weekends, and holidays.
Help maintain the reliability, availability, and operational stability of AWS-based infrastructure and production environments.
Create, document, structure, and maintain runbooks, incident response guidelines, and contingency procedures.
Conduct post-incident reviews, identify root causes, and track corrective and preventive actions through to completion.
Provide technical guidance to DevOps teams during high-risk infrastructure changes and deployments.
Support the planning and execution of rollback procedures to minimize service disruption and operational risk.
Improve observability practices, monitoring systems, alerting strategies, and infrastructure capacity management.
Troubleshoot complex issues across Kubernetes clusters, networking, Linux systems, cloud infrastructure, and databases.
Monitor infrastructure performance and identify opportunities to improve resilience, scalability, and incident response efficiency.
Participate in scheduled on-call and operational coverage rotations in accordance with established team arrangements.
Collaborate with engineering and operations stakeholders to strengthen reliability practices and promote continuous improvement.
Bachelor's degree and/or postgraduate education in a relevant field.
Senior-level experience in Site Reliability Engineering, infrastructure operations, DevOps, or a related technical discipline.
Advanced Kubernetes expertise, including production environments, Amazon EKS, kubectl, and troubleshooting pods and clusters.
Advanced networking and connectivity knowledge, including Ingress and Egress configurations, network rules, and connectivity diagnostics.
Advanced experience with Argo CD and Bitbucket in deployment, version control, or infrastructure management workflows.
Advanced PostgreSQL knowledge, including database troubleshooting and performance analysis.
Advanced AWS expertise, particularly with EC2, VPC, Security Groups, Load Balancers, S3, and RDS.
Advanced Linux administration skills, including operating system troubleshooting and production environment support.
Strong incident management capabilities, including coordinating critical responses, conducting post-incident analysis, and implementing corrective actions.
Experience documenting operational procedures, maintaining runbooks, and developing effective contingency and rollback plans.
Ability to assess the risks associated with production changes and work collaboratively with DevOps and engineering teams.
Strong analytical thinking, technical problem-solving, communication, and decision-making skills, particularly under pressure.
Availability to participate in scheduled on-call rotations, including coverage outside standard business hours.
Fully remote work model.
Full-time employment under a Brazilian CLT contract.
Medical insurance.
Dental insurance.
Meal allowance.
Opportunity to take on technical leadership responsibilities in cloud infrastructure reliability and production operations.
