Lead Site Reliability Engineer

Job Information

• Job Opening ID ZR_1032_JOB
• Date Opened 10/05/2026
• Job Type Full time
• Industry Technology
• Work Experience 5+ years
• Remote Job

Job Description

This is a remote position.

• Implement and manage Service Level Objectives (SLOs), Service Level Indicators (SLIs), and error budgets to drive reliability efforts.
• Develop systems that are resilient to failures and ensure 99.9%+ uptime for critical services.
• Lead incident response and post-incident reviews (blameless postmortems), ensuring robust root cause analysis and continuous improvement of systems.
• Automate incident detection and response using automated runbooks or predefined workflows.
• Write software as needed to support reliability or efficiency needs.
• Design and implement full observability across systems using modern tools like Open Telemetry for tracing, metrics, and logging.
• Use capacity planning, forecasting, and performance testing to ensure that the systems scale effectively as the user base and load grow.
• Collaborate with development and operations teams on building reliable, scalable, and high-performance services.
• Ensure best practices are followed across infrastructure design, deployment, and maintenance using tools like AWS, Kubernetes, EKS, Fargate, etc.
• Champion Infrastructure as Code (IaC) to provision, manage, and scale infrastructure using tools like Terraform, Pulumi, or similar.
• Get involved in chaos engineering initiatives.
• Participate on our on-call rotation.
• Drive advanced alerting and anomaly detection applied to metrics

Requirements

• 3-5 years of experience as an SRE, working in cloud-based environments and on-prem environments.
• Deep understanding of Linux systems, networking, and systems administration.
• Experience with cloud platforms like AWS, with a strong understanding of Kubernetes and container orchestration tools.
• Hands-on experience with observability tools such as Honeycomb, Grafana, Prometheus, Thanos, ELK (Elastic Stack), or Loki.
• Strong skills in at least one programming language (Python, Go) to write production level code.
• Strong skills in shell scripting using bash or similar. • Experience with OpenTelemetry or other distributed tracing systems, including tracing, metrics, and logs integration.
• Experience with Chaos Engineering methodologies and tools (Chaos Mesh, chaos monkey, AWS Fault Injection Simulator, etc.

Benefits

• Competitive Salary Package: Receive a pay package that matches your skills and experience.
• Vacation and Sick Leave credits: Enjoy vacation and sick leave credits to maintain work-life balance.
• Health Coverage: Get medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your dependents.
• Government-Mandated Benefits: Full coverage of all statutory benefits like SSS, PhilHealth, and Pag-IBIG.
• Learning Opportunities: Access training, certifications, and mentorship to grow your career.
• Team Engagement: Join team-building activities and wellness programs.
• Modern Tools: Use the latest technology to excel in your role.
• Career Growth: Clear paths for promotion and professional development.
• Inclusive Culture: Be part of a diverse, supportive, and collaborative global team.
• Referral Rewards: Earn bonuses for bringing great talent to the team.