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Senior Site Reliability Engineer
Glo*** · Covington, LA, United States
Covington, LA, United StatesExp: 7+ yrsOnsite
Remuneration
Competitive salaries; paid time off; paid holidays; 401(k) plan with company match; employee stock purchase program; life and disability insurance; medical FSA; dependent care benefits; health, dental, and vision insurance; employee assistance program; wellness program
Location
Covington, LA, United States
Visa sponsorship
Sponsors visa
Job summary
The Senior Site Reliability Engineer strengthens the reliability, performance, and scalability of a large-scale monitoring and data platform that provides real-time and historical visibility into satellite and ground infrastructure. The role owns data-pipeline health, monitoring and alerting, incident response, on-call operations, and disaster-recovery exercises, while advancing infrastructure-as-code and automated deployments. The platform handles high-volume operational data and uses technologies including Go or Java, AWS S3, Kinesis, SQL, CI/CD, and GitOps.
Benefits
Paid time offPaid holidays401(k) plan with company matchEmployee stock purchase programLife insuranceShort- and long-term disability insuranceMedical FSADependent care benefitsHealth insuranceDental insuranceVision insuranceEmployee assistance programWellness program
Qualifications
- At least 7 years of experience in site reliability engineering, platform engineering, data engineering, or a related field operating production systems at scale.
- Experience with streaming or event-driven data pipelines, large-scale storage, and analytical query engines.
- Proficiency in a systems programming language such as Go or Java.
- Production experience with observability and monitoring tools for metrics, logs, traces, and alerting.
- On-call experience, including incident response, root-cause analysis, and postmortem writing.
- Experience with infrastructure-as-code and CI/CD or GitOps practices.
- Ability to explain technical tradeoffs to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Preferred: experience operating multi-terabyte-per-day platforms, multi-region or disaster-recovery architectures, SQL queries, AWS data-pipeline tools, or third-party monitoring platforms.
- Preferred: experience with high-cardinality sensor, IoT, or infrastructure telemetry.
Responsibilities
- Own the health and performance of a large-scale data and monitoring pipeline.
- Improve platform performance, cost-efficiency, and scalability as data volumes grow.
- Evaluate and integrate monitoring, alerting, and data-platform tools.
- Design and maintain deterministic checks for critical alerts and data quality.
- Participate in production incident response, on-call rotations, root-cause analysis, and postmortems.
- Support disaster-recovery planning, regional failover exercises, and recovery validation.
- Identify workflow and data-practice gaps and drive phased improvements with operations and engineering teams.
- Partner with stakeholders on capacity planning, investment priorities, and technical tradeoffs.
- Promote infrastructure-as-code and automated deployment practices.
- Mentor engineers and build institutional platform knowledge.
Skills
AWSGoJavaKinesisS3
Work schedule
On-call rotationsWork outside regularly scheduled hours as needed
Travel
Travel as needed
Industry
SatelliteInternet of ThingsInfrastructure telemetry
Relocation
No