Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Cassandra, AWS

🔥 50 minutes ago

💃 Latin America – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

⛑ DevOps & Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

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1001 - 5000 employees

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Nortal is a strategic partner specializing in transformation services for governments, healthcare institutions, and businesses. With over 25 years of experience, Nortal employs a unique seamless methodology to deliver world-class digital solutions that enhance efficiency and user experiences. They focus on tackling complex challenges across various industries, including public sector, healthcare, financial services, and telecommunications, ensuring that clients can successfully navigate the demands of a rapidly evolving economic landscape.

📋 Description

• Modernize and scale production platforms, including customer-data caching platforms serving 20–25+ applications at approximately 3,000 requests per second • Design, build and operate highly available, fault-tolerant distributed systems and caching platforms • Evaluate architecture and identify opportunities to scale toward 6x current traffic while maintaining performance and resiliency • Improve caching strategies, TTLs, refresh patterns, cache placement, performance and downstream dependency management • Evolve platforms toward active-active resiliency and validate failure, recovery and capacity scenarios • Design and implement automated CI/CD pipelines with rolling, blue/green or canary deployment strategies, automated checks and quality gates • Establish infrastructure, configuration, secrets and application deployment practices using an everything-as-code approach • Build performance and load-testing capabilities and performance gates for releases • Develop monitoring, alerting and observability for latency, throughput, availability, errors and reliability indicators • Define and improve SLIs, SLOs, error budgets and operational KPIs • Automate operational tasks through scripting, tooling and infrastructure automation • Troubleshoot production issues, perform root-cause analysis and lead blameless post-incident reviews • Provide technical guidance and engineering guardrails for SRE and development teams • Collaborate with Java/Spring Boot engineers, architects, client FTEs and other technical teams • Work independently, set technical direction and advance reliability improvements in small engineering teams

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field • 5+ years of experience working in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, platform engineering or a similar production infrastructure role • Apache Cassandra experience, including data modeling, replication, consistency, tuning and multi-datacenter deployments • Experience operating and scaling distributed systems in production environments • Strong understanding of caching architectures, performance optimization and high-availability systems • Hands-on AWS experience and familiarity with cloud-native architecture • Experience designing and implementing automated CI/CD pipelines and deployment strategies for highly available systems • Experience with infrastructure/configuration/secrets as code and automated, repeatable processes • Strong understanding of observability, monitoring, alerting, performance metrics and production troubleshooting • Experience with performance testing, capacity planning and identifying system bottlenecks • Strong programming or scripting experience for automation and tooling • Ability to work independently, take ownership of ambiguous technical problems and move work forward with limited direction • Ability to provide technical leadership and establish practical engineering standards and guardrails within a small team • Advanced English level required • Java/Spring Boot experience strongly preferred • Strongly preferred: GraphQL and API gateway architectures; Kubernetes and containerized applications; GitLab CI/CD; Terraform or other infrastructure-as-code tools; Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog or similar observability platforms; Kafka, Amazon MSK or other event-streaming technologies; active-active or multi-region architectures; enterprise customer-data platforms or high-volume caching systems

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive USD salary • Full remote work, with coworking spaces across LATAM if you want to meet the team in person • Paid time off under your country's rules, at full salary • National holidays • Sick leave • A yearly refundable credit for health and well-being • A day off for your birthday • Coffee breaks, tech talks, and games • People Care team support with time off and wellness

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