Lead SRE/DevOps Engineer

About the job 1. About Our Client: This organization operates in the digital media industry, reaching over 30 million monthly visitors through various brands. It addresses the challenge of connecting consumers with leading brands by leveraging data-driven content and technology. The company maintains a remote-first team spread across more than 15 countries, fostering a culture focused on speed, ownership, and measurable impact. 2. About the Opportunity: The Lead SRE/DevOps Engineer role is responsible for owning and advancing the cloud infrastructure, CI/CD platform, and compliance posture. This position involves building the Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) function from the ground up to enable product teams to deliver rapidly without sacrificing reliability, security, or cost efficiency. 3. Responsibilities: • Establish the SRE practice including on-call rotation, PagerDuty setup, SLA/SLO definitions, runbook creation, and observability dashboards linking site performance to business metrics. • Complete migration of production workloads to an isolated AWS multi-account environment with zero unplanned downtime. • Deliver infrastructure evidence packages ready for SOC 2 Type I audit and manage technical controls end-to-end. • Version and publish a Terraform module library to a private registry to standardize consumption by product teams. • Implement automated deployment rollback for ECS and Lambda, gating production deployments on integration test success. • Provide monthly cost reporting to leadership, including budget anomaly detection and savings recommendations. 4. Requirements: • Minimum 5 years of production experience with AWS infrastructure and deep Terraform expertise. • Proven experience in establishing SRE functions and full ownership of such initiatives. • Experience working in multi-site companies utilizing PaaS or microservices architectures. • Prior ownership of CI/CD pipelines. • Experience with PagerDuty and managing on-call rotations. • Hands-on familiarity with SRE tooling such as OpenTelemetry and Grafana. 5. Pay Range and Compensation Package: • Base salary ranges from $160,000 to $190,000 per year, paid semi-monthly. Equal Opportunity Statement: Our client is an equal opportunity employer. They celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, or national origin. Note: RemoteHunter is not the Employer of Record (EOR) for this role. Our purpose in this opportunity is to connect exceptional candidates with leading employers. We help job seekers worldwide discover roles that match their goals and guide them to complete their full application directly through the hiring company’s career page or ATS.