Site Reliability Engineer

Salary Range: $130,000.00 - 145,000.00
Who we are:
Hi, we're SambaSafety and we offer the industry's most comprehensive driver monitoring software. Our mission is promoting safer communities by reducing risk through data insights. Companies trust SambaSafety to keep their employees safe on the roads, price and reduce risk, help protect their brand, their bottom line, and our global community.
We've built an inclusive, supportive, and exceptional culture where every employee is empowered in their role. Don't take our word for it; we've been recognized as a Top Workplace by The Denver Post, Albuquerque Journal, Sacramento Bee, and Built In Colorado. And our employees rate SambaSafety as top-notch, with a rock solid 4.9-star rating on Glassdoor.
What You'll Do:
As a Cloud Operations Site Reliability Engineer, you will be a self-starter who consistently demonstrates initiative and drive, manages implementations, changes, simplifies the environment to increase reliability, reduce technical burden, provides exceptional support that works with and elevates the broader team. You will thrive in a fast-paced environment and be able to prioritize critical tasks and project/epic level work.
As a highly skilled and experienced member of our Cloud Operations team, you will be contributing your experience as a technologist focused on implementing best
practices and optimizations for cloud infrastructure operations ensuring our Customer Focused SaaS Services are Optimized. Our Cloud Ops SREs focus on our Production Based Infrastructure and Services while collaborating closely with cross-functional teams to ensure the efficient, secure, and scalable utilization of cloud services, primarily leveraging AWS technologies for all environments. Your expertise and leadership will be instrumental in driving our cloud operations. You will work with other Cloud Operations team members to implement optimizations by automation measures and improve monitoring and observability while ensuring the highest levels of reliability, performance, and stability.

• • Accountable for ensuring that all cloud applications/services and environments are available 24/7 through proactive application performance monitoring, alerting, and predictive failure analysis
• • Ensure the security of all cloud environments through monitoring, event correlation, patching, security mitigations, and proactive process improvements.
• • Partner with development teams to continually improve services, deployments, stability, and availability through well-architected solution deployments, release procedures, and enabling cloud optimizations that empower our SDLC to become more resilient.
• • Focus on automation, self-healing, infrastructure orchestration, configuration management, leveraging IaC for infrastructure and environment improvements
• • Contribute and participate in business continuity, disaster recovery, security, and incident response planning and activation
• • Participate in Cloud Operations On-Call rotation to support business requirements and incident escalations

What you'll need:

• • Curiosity and possess a tenacity for learning, mentoring, and continuous improvement
• • At least 5 years of demonstrated production enterprise SaaS experience as a Site Reliability Engineer, DevOps Engineer, or Platform Engineer with AWS
• • Demonstrated experience implementing and optimizing AWS services and cloud architecture best practices, including security, networking, high availability, disaster recovery, business continuity, CI/CD pipelines
• • Experience working with Kubernetes in AWS (EKS), Containers and Container Orchestration, and distributed data store (Apache Kafka, Amazon MSK) are highly preferred
• • Coding experience using one or more high-level languages, such as Go, Python, Powershell
• • Terraform is a Plus
• • Relevant certifications such as AWS Certified Solutions Architect, AWS Certified DevOps Engineer, or DevOps-related certifications are highly desirable
• • Being part of an On-Call Rotation with availability for after hours support in the event of a major issue

Benefits and Perks:

• Unlimited Paid Time Off and Paid Volunteer Days
• 401k Employer Match
• Generous Healthcare Benefits
• Up to 12 weeks paid time off for maternity leave based on tenure
• Wellness &Tuition Reimbursement
• Flexible Work Arrangements
• Lots of SambaSafety swag
• SambaSafety Events

Our team of talented and committed safety professionals is exceptional. At SambaSafety we strive to foster an inclusive culture that supports, encourages and celebrates a wide array of diversity. We are committed to create a space where all employees can show up as their authentic selves every day, and we work to advance employee equality, diversity and inclusion.
SambaSafety provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, gender identity, and expression or genetics.
Come join us to find out for yourself what all the excitement is about!