# Senior SRE

**Company:** [Tatari](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/tatari)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** DevOps / SRE
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** AWS, Terraform, Kubernetes, Linux, Gitlab Ci, Jenkins, Groovy, Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, Python, Go, Bash, Apache Kafka, ClickHouse
**Posted:** 2026-08-11

> The Senior SRE will design, automate, and operate high-throughput AWS and Kubernetes infrastructure, improving reliability, observability, CI/CD, and cost efficiency. The role requires 4–6 years of production SRE, DevOps, or systems engineering experience and strong Terraform, Linux, scripting, and incident-response skills.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities

- Own and evolve AWS infrastructure as code using **Terraform**, ensuring environments are reproducible and consistently provisioned.
- Administer production **Kubernetes** clusters with a focus on cost optimization using Spot instances and fault-tolerant workload design.
- Participate in the on-call rotation, triage live incidents, and drive root-cause analysis through resolution.
- Build and maintain CI/CD automation pipelines using **GitLab CI** or **Jenkins** to improve deployment velocity and reliability.
- Strengthen observability across the stack through monitoring, alerting, and dashboards using **Prometheus**, **Grafana**, or **Datadog**.
- Harden core **Linux** systems.
- Write scripts and tooling in **Python**, **Go**, or **Bash** to eliminate manual toil across the infrastructure organization.
- Use AI developer tools such as **Claude Code**, **GitHub Copilot**, and **Cursor** to accelerate troubleshooting, scripting, and workflow automation.

## Requirements

- 4–6 years of SRE, DevOps, or systems engineering experience managing production environments.
- 3+ years of hands-on experience with **AWS** and Kubernetes administration.
- Proven ability to provision and manage AWS infrastructure reproducibly with Terraform.
- Production Kubernetes administration experience, including cost optimization and fault-tolerance work on Spot instances.
- Track record of on-call ownership, production incident triage, and root-cause analysis.
- Experience designing, automating, and maintaining complex CI/CD pipelines with GitLab CI or Jenkins, including strong **Groovy** proficiency.
- Deep Linux systems fundamentals and scripting fluency in Python, Go, or Bash.
- Hands-on monitoring-stack experience with Prometheus, Grafana, or Datadog.
- Fluency with AI developer tools such as Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, and Cursor.

## Nice-to-haves

- Production **Aerospike** administration, including memory optimization and data rebalancing; equivalent experience with **ScyllaDB** or **Cassandra** is also relevant.
- **Apache Kafka** operational experience with high-throughput streaming, topic partitioning, and consumer lag; equivalent experience with **Pulsar**, **Kinesis**, or **RabbitMQ** is also relevant.
- **ClickHouse** administration and tuning for real-time OLAP analytics.

## Compensation and Benefits

- Competitive salary including an equity package and quarterly tax assistance for Ukraine tax residents.
- Competitive time off and company wellness days throughout the year.
- Team-building events.
- Annual continued education benefit.
- Newbie Productivity Perk.
- Monthly stipend.
- The role is currently remote but may become hybrid when there is a physical office.

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