Software Engineer

The Site Reliability Engineering discipline at Noctua Technology, LLC is a strategic force driving digital transformation. We treat operations as a software engineering challenge, focusing on the seamless integration, scalability, and long-term reliability of cloud native systems. Our SREs don’t just manage infrastructure; they build it using Infrastructure as Code (IaC), monitor it through advanced observability stacks, and protect it by engineering for failure. We work closely with clients to bridge the gap between development and operations.

We are seeking a motivated Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to join our dynamic team. As a key contributor, you will apply software engineering principles to operations, focusing on the reliability, scalability, and performance of production systems. You will play a crucial role in reducing toil through automation, defining and monitoring Service Level Objectives (SLOs), and implementing best practices for system stability and incident response. This role requires working with modern cloud technologies to ensure the high availability and efficiency of applications and infrastructure.

• Location: Primarily Remote. Candidates must be based in CA or DC Metro Area for proximity to project and client teams.
• Security Clearance Requirement: Applicants must be US citizens and eligible to obtain and maintain an active Secret security clearance or above.

Key Responsibilities

Site Reliability Engineering

• Define, measure, and report on Service Level Indicators (SLIs) and Service Level Objectives (SLOs) to ensure system reliability and uptime.
• Develop and deploy Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar tools, with an emphasis on repeatability and change management.
• Implement and manage containerized and serverless architectures using Docker, Kubernetes, and cloud-native services, focusing on performance and error budgets.
• Build and maintain reliable and self-healing CI/CD pipelines to automate deployments and improve development workflows.

Toil Reduction and Incident Management 

• Implement and refine comprehensive monitoring, alerting, and logging to detect and address performance and availability issues proactively.
• Eliminate toil by extensively automating operational tasks, including provisioning, patching, and deployments, using scripting and configuration management tools such as Python, Bash, or Ansible.
• Conduct post-incident reviews (blameless postmortems) to drive continuous improvement in system reliability and operational processes.