Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Engineering @ Taivo

At Taivo, we aren't just merging two companies; we are building a unified, scalable foundation for the future of our industry. Our IT philosophy is rooted in Governance over Administration. We don't just "fix tickets"—we build the secure, automated "rails" that allow our Engineering and Business teams to run their "trains" at high velocity.

We are embarking on a major engineering transformation—moving away from traditional siloes to bring our entire platform ecosystem under one roof, and we need a dynamic Senior Site Reliability Engineer to help lead the charge. You won't be trapped in a reactive "admin of everything" role; instead, you’ll have the autonomy to drive architectural vision, establish modern operational practices, and support teams through this shift. If you are energized by high-impact cultural change and ready to shape how our organization builds and scales software, this is your opportunity to pave out our future.

Day in the Life

• Platform Engineering: Design and maintain our core Kubernetes and Cloud Native environments within GCP, AWS, and Azure, ensuring high availability, scalability, security, and seamless deployment patterns.
• Observability & Reliability: Implement a comprehensive observability stack to provide deep insights into system health, performance, and security posture.
• Cross-Cloud Strategy: While GCP is our primary home, you will provide expertise in integrating and bridging legacy or specialized workloads in Azure and AWS.
• Automation & Lifecycle: Build automated, repeatable processes for provisioning and deprovisioning infrastructure, reducing manual toil to near zero.  You will standardize observability and cost reporting workflows.
• The "Rails" Philosophy: Develop self-service tools that empower DevOps and Engineering teams to manage their own tool configurations while remaining compliant with Taivo security standards.
• Optimization: Audits multi-cloud spend, consolidates SaaS observability licenses, and optimize cloud resources.
  
  

Who You Are

• A Systems Thinker: You understand that SRE is an enabler. You focus on building robust platforms rather than performing arbitrary third-party integrations.
• Kubernetes Proficiency: You have deep experience managing production-grade clusters (GKE preferred) and understand the intricacies of service meshes, networking, and container security.
• Cloud Polyglot: You have the most experience with Azure, but you have enough familiarity with GCP and AWS to navigate complex multi-cloud environments.
• Security-First Mindset: You treat security as a core feature of reliability, not an afterthought.
• Observability: You deliver reliability and quality, and ensure that we can be proactive in monitoring the platform health across all of our products
• Collaborative Partner: You prefer "Partnership" over "Gatekeeping," working with business units to facilitate their ownership of the products they develop. 
• Influence During Change: You are energized to leave things better than you found it and create efficient processes. You bring other teams along, help others understand the why, and empower them to take ownership. 

Must Haves

• A minimum of 7 years in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, or Platform Engineering roles.
• Expert-level Kubernetes orchestration and containerization (Docker/Containerd).
• GCP Professional Cloud Architect or equivalent experience (IAM, VPCs, GKE, Cloud Operations).
• Deep proficiency in Terraform, CDK, or Pulumi
• Proven experience with Azure/AWS/GCP for hybrid-cloud connectivity and migrations.
• Scripting/Coding: Proficiency in Go, Python, or similar for tooling and automation.
• Experience navigating complex multi-cloud environments.
• Experience with observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, or Datadog to drive SLIs/SLOs.
• Proven aptitude to learn new technologies and tools. Curious and self-starter by nature.

A Few of the Perks

• Competitive benefits
• Unlimited PTO
• Remote work available for U.S.-based candidates
• 401(k) with employer match
• Paid parental leave
• In-office benefits for those local to Dallas, TX:
• • Catered lunches 
  • Casual office atmosphere & located in the Design District
  • Fully stocked kitchen

Candidates must be physically located and legally authorized to work in one of the following states: AZ, AR, CA, CO, CT, FL, GA, IL, IN, KS, ME, MI, MN, MO, MT, NV, NH, NC, OH, OK, OR, PA, SC, TN, TX, UT, VA, WA, and WI. We are currently unable to consider applicants outside of these states.