Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Job summary

IDEXX Laboratories is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to join their Site Reliability Engineering Team. This role involves modernizing infrastructure, strengthening system resilience, and scaling a global platform, leveraging AI tools to accelerate delivery and improve system quality. The position is a high-impact individual contributor role with end-to-end ownership of deployment and release systems, including CI/CD architecture and infrastructure modernization.

Benefits

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, Platform Engineering, or similar roles focused on CI/CD, cloud infrastructure, and system reliability
• Strong experience with AWS Serverless architectures
• Strong experience with Terraform and CloudFormation
• Strong experience with CI/CD pipelines, preferably GitHub Actions
• Strong experience with Azure Entra ID, OAuth2, OpenID Connect
• Strong experience with Maven build tooling
• Strong experience with Git-based version control workflows, preferably GitHub
• Proven ability to design and optimize deployment pipelines
• Proven ability to troubleshoot complex distributed systems
• Proven ability to make data-driven decisions
• Proven ability to translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions
• Strong communication skills
• Strong collaboration skills
• Strong organizational skills
• Understanding of system design patterns for reliability and scalability
• Experience with Kotlin or Java development (nice to have)
• Experience with NoSQL databases (e.g., DynamoDB) and relational databases (e.g., PostgreSQL) (nice to have)
• Experience working in Agile or Scrum environments (nice to have)
• Familiarity with artifact management tools such as JFrog Artifactory (nice to have)
• Experience defining and managing SLAs, SLOs, and SLIs (nice to have)

Responsibilities

• Own the design and evolution of CI/CD pipeline architecture, governance, and standards
• Modernize and automate deployment pipelines for Kotlin-based AWS Lambda services using GitHub Actions
• Standardize infrastructure and deployment processes across services
• Reduce manual deployment effort through automation
• Leverage AI tools to improve productivity and system quality
• Design, build, and evolve scalable, resilient AWS cloud infrastructure
• Lead implementation of disaster recovery, high availability, and fault-tolerant designs
• Automate infrastructure provisioning and lifecycle management
• Build and maintain end-to-end observability (metrics, logging, tracing, alerting)
• Establish effective alerting to reduce noise and ensure high-signal incident detection
• Proactively identify and address system risks before they impact customers
• Lead incident response in shared on-call rotation (triage, mitigation, communication)
• Drive root cause analysis and blameless postmortems to prevent recurrence
• Own and govern the release process, including deployment gates and approvals
• Review and approve deployment plans to ensure quality and stability
• Optimize the build and release lifecycle for speed, consistency, and reliability
• Manage cross-repository dependencies and versioning strategies
• Lead remediation of security vulnerabilities, collaborating with the Security team
• Establish processes to proactively prevent new security risks
• Embed secure development and deployment practices into pipelines

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