Sr. Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

The range for this role is $101,000 - $146,000

Actual base pay will be determined based on a successful candidate's work location, skills/abilities, experience, and education.

This is a fully remote role, but interested applicants MUST be living (or willing to relocate to) in one of the states that we are eligible to employ in: AL, AZ, CO, FL, GA, IL, IN, KY, MO, NC, OH, OK, SC, SD, TN, TX, VA, WI, WV. 

The Mission

At Christian Care Ministry we believe that Christians can, and should, share in one another’s burdens. Through the use of Medi-Share®, a healthcare sharing ministry for Christians, we cultivate that belief. To that end, our Mission Statement is as follows: Connecting people to a Christ-centered community wellness experience based on faith, prayer, and personal responsibility.

The Team

Everyone at Christian Care Ministry is in agreement with our Statement of Faith, which outlines our core beliefs. Although we aren’t perfect people, we are serving our perfect God and our Members to the best of our ability.

The Job

This role partners with the SRE Manager, Director of Production Support, and Engineering leadership to design, implement, and operate highly reliable, scalable, secure, and cost-effective systems supporting CCM’s application ecosystem and Software Delivery Lifecycle (SDLC). This role will have responsibility to define, lead, and continuously improve operational best practices using Site Reliability Engineering principles with a strong emphasis on AWS-based cloud infrastructure. The Sr. Site Reliability Engineer influences AWS architecture decisions, leads complex AWS infrastructure initiatives, and drives long-term reliability, observability, and cost efficiency. This role serves as a technical leader and mentor, shaping standards and practices while ensuring production systems meet the availability and performance needs of the organization. 

Essential Job Duties & Responsibilities

• Collectively work on the design, evolution, and operational health of CCM’s AWS environment, including architectural decisions, standards, and best practices
• Design, implement, and optimize AWS-based infrastructure using services such as EC2, ECS/EKS, Lambda, RDS, S3, CloudWatch, IAM, and VPC
• Design and manage cloud infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation, or equivalent)
• Lead new implementations and major reliability initiatives, serving as a subject matter expert for AWS and SRE best practices
• Actively monitor, analyze, and optimize AWS spend, providing regular cost insights and recommendations that balance reliability, performance, and fiscal stewardship
• Apply and mature site reliability principles to improve system availability, scalability, performance, security, and observability
• Design, analyze, and implement automation to eliminate operational toil and improve system efficiency
• Provide advanced operations and systems administration for cloud-hosted and hybrid platforms supporting CCM’s IT systems and services
• Define and improve monitoring, alerting, logging, and incident response practices to proactively identify risks and minimize customer impact
• Lead complex production incidents, perform root cause analysis, and drive corrective and preventive actions
• Mentor and provide technical guidance to junior and mid-level engineers without direct people-management responsibilities
• Collaborate with engineering, QA, security, and business teams to embed reliability throughout the SDLC
• Ensure systems and data are handled in compliance with legal, regulatory, and organizational requirements
• Develop and continuously improve production engineering processes, including:
  • Change and configuration management
  • Monitoring and observability
  • Incident and emergency response
  • Disaster recovery and business continuity
  • Capacity planning and performance tuning
  • Infrastructure-as-code and deployment automation
• Partner with leadership to establish and enforce consistent IT Production policies, standards, and tooling
• Act as a change agent for long-term technical strategy, identifying risks, dependencies, and opportunities across systems and teams
• Participate in a sustainable on-call rotation and contribute to ongoing improvements that reduce alert fatigue and operational overhead
• Build strong cross-functional relationships to align reliability initiatives with business and ministry