Site Reliability Engineer

Blackpoint Cyber is the leading provider of world-class cybersecurity threat hunting, detection and remediation technology. Founded by former National Security Agency (NSA) cyber operations experts who applied their learnings to bring national security-grade technology solutions to commercial customers around the world, Blackpoint Cyber is in hyper-growth mode,  fueled by a recent $190m series C round. 

SUMMARY

We're hiring a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to design, implement, and maintain our cloud and on-premise infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines, with a focus on automation, scalability, and performance. You'll work across cloud platform administration, container orchestration, data streaming, observability, and incident response — partnering with engineering teams to keep our systems reliable, secure, and efficient, and helping foster a culture of continuous improvement.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Design, develop, and maintain highly scalable infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (Terraform and Terragrunt) for automated cloud resource provisioning and orchestration.

• Own and optimize our AWS cloud environment, ensuring cost efficiency, security best practices, and high-availability standards.

• Manage and optimize Kubernetes cluster environments (Helm, ArgoCD, Istio, Kustomize) to support continuous delivery and infrastructure-as-code practices.

• Administer and scale data streaming infrastructure (Confluent Cloud, Apache Kafka) to support enterprise-level data processing.

• Deploy, configure, and maintain Redis for caching and real-time data processing.

• Implement and maintain monitoring, alerting, and incident response frameworks (Prometheus, Grafana, Alert Manager, Grafana CloudOpsGenie/PagerDuty) to ensure system reliability and performance.

• Facilitate controlled feature deployments and progressive rollouts through LaunchDarkly/PostHog.

• Partner with software development teams to ensure seamless integration of new services, applications, and features into existing infrastructure.

• Diagnose and resolve complex system-level issues, implementing solutions that maintain high performance and maximize uptime.

• Drive continuous improvement of automation tooling, operational processes, and engineering methodologies to enhance scalability, reliability, and maintainability.

• Stay current on emerging SRE trends and tools, andtools and help the team adopt relevant industry advancements and best practices.