Staff SRE

Lytx, Inc.

Staff SRE responsible for maintaining availability and reliability for Lytx services across cloud and on-prem infrastructure. Mentoring team and enhancing incident management processes.

Posted 5/13/2026full-timeRemote • Virginia • 🇺🇸 United StatesLead💰 $183,500 - $232,500 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSCloudDNSEC2GrafanaGroovyJenkinsKubernetesLinuxNGINXNoSQLPrometheusPythonSMTPSQLTCP/IPTerraformVault

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Build tools and frameworks to monitor systems and ensure highest level of uptime on production environments
Mentor the SRE team on best practices
Develop culture of innovation
Take lead in enhancing our 24/7 on call and incident management process
Build and maintain Run-books
Contribute to design and documentation of the cloud services and SOPs
Influence service design by working closely with Architects, DBAs, Developers, DevOps, Data engineers to bake reliability, scalability and cost optimizations early in the development process
Lead blameless post-mortems
Take ownership of publishing RCA documents for internal and external consumption
Lead initiatives with Service Owners to define the SLOs and build SLIs to ensure systems are meeting the SLAs
Research and evaluate new cloud technologies and vendor offerings to enhance product stability and manageability
Reduce Operational Toil and maintain high degree of automation by adapting IaC first and Gitops principals
Acquire and maintain significant understanding of Lytx production services to ensure timely resolution of production incidents

Requirements

What you’ll need

8+ years of experience as a SRE in an AWS environment at medium to large scale organization
6+ years of hands-on experience implementing and managing Observability tools (Prometheus, New Relic, Grafana, etc.)
High degree of proficiency in programming, preferably using Python, Groovy and Bash
Hands-on experience managing database technologies (SQL and NoSQL)
5+ years of experience building Infrastructure deployment pipelines using Git, Terraform, Helm, Jenkins/JenkinX/ArgoCD etc.
Proficient in designing production environments in AWS cloud using various AWS services (VPCs, EKS, IAM, AMI, EC2, CloudWatch, CloudTrail’s, Control Tower, Guard duty, MSK, S3, Glacier, Gateways, Direct Connects, Route53, RDS, ALBs, Autoscaling etc)
Extensive experience with Linux systems and various protocols and technologies (HTTP, REST, TCP/IP, SSL, DNS, SMTP, SSH, NTP, Load Balancing, SQL/NoSQL, Message Brokers, Nginx, Vault, ELK etc)
Hands-on experience with Kubernetes and various container and cloud native technologies
Significant experience in participating, implementing, and managing 24/7 on call rotation for SRE team, creating run books, building support procedures and proactively monitor systems across geographical locations
Ability to work well under pressure within a technically challenging environment

Benefits

Comp & perks

Medical, dental and vision insurance
Health Savings Account
Flexible Spending Accounts
Telehealth
401(k) and 401(k) match
Life and AD&D insurance
Short-Term and Long-Term Disability
FTO or PTO
Employee Well-Being program
11 paid holidays plus 1 inclusive holiday per year
Volunteer Time Off
Employee Referral program
Education Reimbursement Program
Employee Recognition and Appreciation program
Additional perk and voluntary benefit programs

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Hard Skills & Tools

PythonGroovyBashSQLNoSQLGitTerraformHelmJenkinsKubernetes

Soft Skills

mentoringleadershipinnovationownershipcollaborationcommunicationproblem-solvingpressure management