Telecom Deployment Engineer
Cognyte
Staff Site Reliability Engineer
Branch
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • Colorado • 🇺🇸 United States
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Lead
Tech Stack
AWSCloudDistributed SystemsGoGrafanaJavaKubernetesPrometheusPythonTerraform
About the role
- Lead the design and execution of an engineering-wide reliability program, ensuring teams adopt SRE principles and best practices
- Define and champion service ownership standards, partnering with product and platform teams to embed reliability into the development lifecycle
- Establish and evolve observability practices (metrics, logs, traces), ensuring teams have the tooling and insights to detect, debug, and prevent incidents
- Partner with engineering leaders to define SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets tied to business outcomes
- Collaborate with teams to design systems for resilience, scalability, and fault tolerance
- Provide mentorship and guidance to engineers across the organization
- Identify opportunities to add automation that increases developer productivity and reduces toil
- Create standards, frameworks, and runbooks that scale reliability practices across multiple product lines and teams
- Participate in and improve incident response practices (on-call strategy, SEVs, postmortems, blameless culture)
- Report on progress, trends, and impact of the reliability program to leaders and stakeholders
Requirements
- 7+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, Systems Engineering, or related fields (at least 2–3 years in a senior/staff-level role)
- Strong software engineering skills in one or more languages (e.g., Python, Go, Java)
- Expertise with cloud infrastructure (AWS preferred) and distributed systems at scale
- Deep understanding of observability practices (metrics, logs, tracing) and hands-on experience with tools like Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, or equivalent
- Strong background in adding automation to increase developer productivity and reduce toil
- Proven experience defining and rolling out SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets across engineering teams
- Strong background in incident response, postmortems, and on-call operations
- Demonstrated ability to influence and mentor engineers across multiple teams
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to convey technical concepts and reliability trade-offs to engineers, leadership, and stakeholders
- Nice to have: Experience with Kubernetes and container orchestration
- Nice to have: Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code tools (Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar)
- Nice to have: Knowledge of CI/CD systems and modern release engineering practices
- Nice to have: Prior experience building or leading an organization-wide reliability program
- Nice to have: Familiarity with security and compliance considerations for large-scale platforms
Benefits
- Comprehensive benefits package
- Health and wellness programs
- Paid time off
- Retirement planning options
- Potential equity for qualifying positions
- Remote work (Remote - CO)
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
Site Reliability EngineeringSystems EngineeringPythonGoJavacloud infrastructuredistributed systemsobservability practicesautomationincident response
Soft skills
mentorshipinfluencecommunication
