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Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Optomi in partnership with one of our premier clients Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to join our Data Platform team within a leading global media organization. In this mission-critical role, you’ll design, scale, and maintain the infrastructure powering data products and real-time insights across digital and physical experiences. This position sits at the intersection of DevOps, data engineering, and platform reliability—working closely with cross-functional teams to ensure the scalability, observability, and reliability of high-throughput data systems.

You’ll drive innovation across petabyte-scale data pipelines using automation, infrastructure-as-code, and cloud-native technologies—reducing operational overhead, improving incident response, and unlocking greater velocity for data-driven products.

What the right candidate will enjoy

• A mission-critical role shaping the backbone of real-time data products at a global media leader
• Full remote flexibility with a high-impact team working on cutting-edge infrastructure
• Hands-on work with petabyte-scale pipelines and cloud-native tooling
• A solid runway—initial 6-month contract with likely long-term extension

Required Qualifications

• 6+ years in software engineering focused on SRE, DevOps, or platform infrastructure
• Fluent in Python and one statically typed language (e.g., Go, Java, TypeScript)
• Deep AWS experience: Lambda, ECS/EKS, Kinesis, S3, IAM, SNS/SQS, API Gateway
• Strong background in distributed systems at scale
• Expert in observability: metrics, logs, traces, and system health design
• Skilled with Terraform, AWS CDK, and CI/CD automation
• Comfortable working with SQL/NoSQL data systems and understanding architectural trade-offs
• History of managing SLAs, SLOs, SLIs, and leading incident response
• Strong communication skills across teams and functions

Nice to Have

• Real-time data infra or analytics pipeline experience
• DataDog and serverless observability chops
• Experience with performance tuning, distributed tracing, and post-incident retros
• Proven impact on system reliability metrics (MTTR, MTTD, deployment cadence)
• Understanding of cloud data compliance and security best practices
• Bonus points for media, streaming, or high-availability consumer tech backgrounds