Senior SRE

Blackpoint Cyber is the leading provider of world-class cybersecurity threat hunting, detection and remediation technology. Founded by former National Security Agency (NSA) cyber operations experts who applied their learnings to bring national security-grade technology solutions to commercial customers around the world, Blackpoint Cyber is in hyper-growth mode,  fueled by a recent $190m series C round. 

Job Overview:

We are seeking an experienced Senior Site Reliability Engineer to join our dynamic team. As a Senior SRE Engineer, you will be responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining our Cloud, On-Premise infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines, with a focus on automation, scalability, and performance.

You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure the reliability and efficiency of our systems while fostering a culture of continuous improvement.

Key Responsibilities:

• Infrastructure Management & Automation: Design, develop, and maintain highly scalable infrastructure utilizing Infrastructure as Code (IaC) methodologies, with primary focus on Terraform and Terragrunt for automated cloud resource provisioning and orchestration.

• Cloud Platform Administration: Oversee and optimize cloud environments, with a specialized focus on Amazon Web Services (AWS), ensuring adherence to cost optimization strategies, security best practices, and high-availability standards.

• Container Orchestration & Continuous Delivery: Manage and optimize Kubernetes cluster environments utilizing Helm, ArgoCD, Istio, and Kustomize to support continuous delivery pipelines and infrastructure-as-code practices.

• Data Streaming Platform Operations: Administer and scale data streaming infrastructure using Confluent Cloud and Apache Kafka to support enterprise-level data processing requirements.

• Caching & Real-Time Data Solutions: Deploy, configure, and maintain Redis instances to facilitate caching mechanisms and real-time data processing capabilities.

• Observability & Incident Management: Implement and maintain comprehensive monitoring, alerting, and incident response frameworks utilizing Prometheus, Grafana, Alert Manager, and OpsGenie/PagerDuty to ensure optimal system reliability and performance.

• Feature Management & Release Engineering: Facilitate controlled feature deployments and progressive rollouts through LaunchDarkly/PostHog platform integration and management.

• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with software development teams to ensure seamless integration of new services, applications, and features into existing infrastructure ecosystems.

• Technical Issue Resolution: Diagnose and resolve complex system-level issues, implementing solutions that maintain high performance standards and maximize system uptime.

• Process Optimization & Enhancement: Drive continuous improvement initiatives for automation tools, operational processes, and engineering methodologies to enhance system scalability, reliability, and maintainability.

• Technical Innovation & Knowledge Management: Maintain current knowledge of emerging Site Reliability Engineering trends, tools, and technologies, ensuring organizational adoption of relevant industry advancements and best practices.

Skills & Qualifications:

• Professional Experience: Minimum of eight (8) years of demonstrated experience in a Senior Site Reliability Engineer role or equivalent position, with substantial emphasis on cloud infrastructure management and automation technologies.

• Infrastructure as Code Proficiency: Expertise in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) methodologies, specifically utilizing Terraform and Terragrunt for enterprise-scale deployments.

• Cloud Architecture Expertise: Comprehensive knowledge of Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud platform, including demonstrated proficiency in designing, implementing, and maintaining secure, scalable, and resilient cloud architectures aligned with industry best practices.

• Distributed Streaming Systems: Extensive hands-on experience architecting and managing distributed data streaming solutions utilizing Confluent Cloud and Apache Kafka platforms.

• Data Storage & Caching Technologies: Proven experience implementing and managing Redis for high-performance caching sol