Job Description

Senior Site Reliability Engineer I

Join Our Team—Shape the Future of Aviation Analytics!

Are you excited to collaborate with people from a wide range of backgrounds and experiences?

Do you value a supportive, inclusive team environment where your perspective is respected?

About Cirium

At Cirium, we strive to keep the world connected through the power of aviation analytics. Our work enables airlines, airports, travel companies, technology providers, aircraft manufacturers, financial institutions, and many more to drive digital transformation in aviation. Learn more about Cirium: https://www.cirium.com/

About the Team

Our teams, called Squads, are made up of individuals with diverse skills—Squad Leads, Business Analysts, Development Leads, Developers, and Testers—collaborating closely to deliver innovative solutions. We are committed to fostering a sense of belonging for everyone and value the unique perspectives each person brings.

About the Role

This Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) position offers the opportunity to work on impactful projects that enhance reliability and reduce manual work through automation. You’ll leverage your experience across a range of SRE practices, helping to maintain resilient, distributed systems and automate processes to protect critical services. As an SRE, you’ll participate in on-call rotations and offer guidance and support to your colleagues. Your insights and process improvements will help shape our inclusive culture of technical excellence and continuous learning.

Responsibilities

• Lead efforts to automate manual and repetitive tasks, contributing to resilient and reliable systems.

• Develop and implement self-healing infrastructure solutions to drive operational efficiency and reduce incidents.

• Create and maintain automation and tools to promote system performance and uptime.

• Support post-release validation and operational readiness for new deployments.

• Provide occasional support outside of standard hours as needed for major releases or critical changes, with consideration for work-life balance.

• Design infrastructure following best practices for scalability, fault tolerance, and security.

• Define and manage Service Level Indicators (SLIs) and Service Level Objectives (SLOs) to partner with teams in ensuring reliable services.

• Collaborate with engineering teams to enhance deployment pipelines and make recommendations for improved architecture, release speed, and productivity.

Requirements

• Professional experience in a Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), DevOps, or related technical role (all relevant pathways and learning experiences welcomed).
• Cloud platform familiarity, especially with AWS services such as EC2, ECS, Lambda, Redshift, PostgreSQL, and AWS OpenSearch. Experience with similar cloud platforms is also valued.
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC) hands-on experience (preferably 2+ years) with tools such as Terraform or similar technologies to automate and manage cloud infrastructure.
• Experience with containerization technologies such as Docker; Kubernetes experience is considered a strong advantage.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and build/release management tools such as TeamCity, including deployment and operational understanding of applications and platforms like Apache Airflow, .NET applications, and related enterprise systems.
• Familiarity with configuration management tools such as Puppet, Ansible, or equivalent systems.
• Experience with monitoring, alerting, and observability tools such as Elasticsearch, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, TeamCity, Jenkins, or similar platforms.
• Ability to work independently and take ownership of infrastructure-related tasks and operational issues.
• Strong collaboration skills with the ability to work closely with Developers, QA teams, and cross-functional stakeholders to troubleshoot and resolve infrastructure and platform-related challenges.
• Good verbal and written communication skills with the ability to clearly articulate technical issues, solutions, and recommendations.
• Open mindset towards learning new technologies, exploring modern engineering practices, and driving innovation and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Experience using AI-assisted developer tools such as GitHub Copilot. Strong prompt engineering and effective AI-assisted problem-solving skills are highly desirable.
• Relevant certifications in AWS, Kubernetes, or related areas are appreciated but not required.

We encourage applications from candidates of all backgrounds, including those who may not meet every listed qualification. If you are passionate about site reliability and eager to contribute, we want to hear from you.

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