simspace-corporation - Staff Site Reliability Engineer
Requirements
• In this position, you'll provide overarching technical leadership across our SRE practice, bridging traditional site reliability, DevOps, and DevSecOps. You'll architect the systems and strategies that allow SimSpace to deliver software seamlessly across our own data centers, to customers who bring their own hardware, and as pre-packaged appliances with bundled hardware and software. As our on-premises product matures and scales, you will design the long-term automation frameworks that make these varied deployments robust, secure, and repeatable. • What will you be doing as a Staff SRE at SimSpace? • Technical Strategy & Architecture: Design and architect the overarching infrastructure strategy that enables consistent, repeatable, and secure deployments across SimSpace-hosted data centers, customer-provided hardware, and highly restricted air-gapped environments. • Platform Evolution & Configuration Management: Lead the evolution of our CI/CD and Kubernetes platforms. Drive advanced application packaging, templating, and configuration management strategies using Jsonnet and Grafana Tanka (alongside Kustomize). Move beyond maintaining pipelines to architecting multi-cluster, multi-environment deployment frameworks that drastically improve developer velocity. • Reliability Leadership: Define, measure, and govern Service Level Indicators (SLIs), Service Level Objectives (SLOs), and Error Budgets across the engineering organization. Partner with product and engineering leadership to balance feature delivery with platform stability. • Advanced Observability: Architect our enterprise observability strategy using the Grafana stack. Design frameworks for proactive monitoring, complex anomaly detection, and distributed tracing that give teams unparalleled visibility into system health, pod scaling, and latency bottlenecks. • Security & Compliance Architecture: Drive the infrastructure security posture at an architectural level. Embed advanced container security, zero-trust network segmentation, and automated compliance policies directly into our deployment pipelines and runtime environments. • Cross-Functional Enablement: Serve as a strategic partner and consultant to development teams. Advocate for an "SRE culture" by designing self-service tooling, establishing "paved roads" for developers, and reducing operational toil across the entire engineering org. • Incident Command: Act as an Incident Commander during complex, high-severity outages. Drive blameless post-mortems and engineer long-term, systemic, and architectural fixes to ensure classes of failures never repeat. • Mentorship & Multiplier: Act as a technical mentor to senior and mid-level engineers. Raise the baseline of engineering excellence across the company by coaching, documenting best practices, and leading by example. • Experience: 8+ years of experience in Site Reliability, Platform, or DevOps engineering, with a proven track record of operating at a Staff, Principal, or Lead level to drive organization-wide infrastructure initiatives. • Expert Software Engineering: You possess deep software engineering skills (beyond scripting) and can architect complex, production-quality systems. You design clean interfaces, build maintainable tooling, and can dictate the technical direction of our internal toolchain. Language agnostic, but highly proficient in at least one modern language (e.g., Go, Python). • Advanced Kubernetes & Configuration Mastery: Deep, architectural understanding of Kubernetes in multi-tenant and multi-cluster production environments. You possess expert-level knowledge of Jsonnet and Grafana Tanka for managing complex, scalable Kubernetes configurations and application packaging. • GitOps & IaC Expertise: Extensive experience architecting sophisticated CI/CD pipelines and GitOps workflows using GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, and infrastructure-as-code principles at an enterprise scale. • Complex Deployments: Systems-level thinking with the ability to design architectures that span self-hosted, on-premises, VMware-based, and air-gapped deployment models. • Observability Expert: Deep expertise with observability platforms (Grafana stack preferred) and a proven ability to design alerting and monitoring strategies for complex distributed systems. • Security Mindset: Strong background in infrastructure security architecture, including container hardening, network security, vulnerability management, and delivering software to heavily regulated or customer-managed environments. • Influential Communicator: Exceptional communication and stakeholder management skills. You have a service-oriented mindset, but you also have the ability to influence cross-functional leadership, negotiate reliability tradeoffs, and align engineering teams behind a unified technical vision. • We’re proud to offer a competitive and comprehensive package designed to support your well-being, growth, and success:
Benefits
• $165K – $230K • Offers Equity • Offers Bonus • Upload your resume here to autofill key application fields. • Drop your resume here! • Parsing your resume. Autofilling key fields... • This helps us reference you correctly throughout the hiring process. • or drag and drop here • SimSpace's Applicant Privacy Policy • Located in the middle of the page. • By clicking “I Agree” below, you: • (a) acknowledge that the personal data, including sensitive personal data, which SimSpace collects from and about you during the recruitment process will be handled in accordance with SimSpace’s Applicant Privacy Notice; and • (b) consent to SimSpace’s collection, use, disclosure, and international transfer of your personal data, including sensitive personal data as described in that Notice. • Decline to self-identify • Hispanic or Latino - A person of Cuban, Mexican, Puerto Rican, South or Central American, or other Spanish culture or origin regardless of race. • Hispanic or Latino • White (Not Hispanic or Latino) - A person having origins in any of the original peoples of Europe, the Middle East, or North Africa. • White • Black or African American (Not Hispanic or Latino) - A person having origins in any of the black racial groups of Africa. • Black or African American • Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander (Not Hispanic or Latino) - A person having origins in any of the peoples of Hawaii, Guam, Samoa, or other Pacific Islands. • Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander • Asian (Not Hispanic or Latino) - A person having origins in any of the original peoples of the Far East, Southeast Asia, or the Indian Subcontinent, including, for example, Cambodia, China, India, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Pakistan, the Philippine Islands, Thailand, and Vietnam. • Asian • American Indian or Alaska Native (Not Hispanic or Latino) - A person having origins in any of the original peoples of North and South America (including Central America), and who maintain tribal affiliation or community attachment. • American Indian or Alaska Native • Two or More Races (Not Hispanic or Latino) - All persons who identify with more than one of the above five races. • Two or More Races • Hispanic or Latino • White (Not Hispanic or Latino) • Black or African American (Not Hispanic or Latino) • Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander (Not Hispanic or Latino) • Asian (Not Hispanic or Latino) • American Indian or Alaska Native (Not Hispanic or Latino) • Two or More Races (Not Hispanic or Latino) • I identify as one or more of the classifications of protected veteran listed above • I am not a protected veteran
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