Site Reliability Engineer - Weekend

The role

You will own weekend monitoring, incident response, and escalation for systems that keep the cloud operational. You will operate and automate critical cloud services including DNS, BGP route reflectors, RPKI, and repository mirrors.

What you will do

• Own weekend monitoring, incident response, and escalation for the systems that keep the cloud operational.
• Operate and automate critical cloud services such as DNS, BGP route reflectors, RPKI, and repository mirrors.
• Operate a broad range of Linux services.
• Implement and maintain dashboards, alerts, and automation using the LGTM stack and ClickHouse.
• Respond to production incidents, drive mitigation, and contribute to post-incident reviews.
• Use Terraform, Puppet, and Ansible to automate infrastructure.
• Identify and eliminate toil by automating manual operational tasks.
• Debug issues across Linux systems, Kubernetes deployments, and network layers.
• Work cross-functionally with Platform Services, Shared Services, and application teams.
• Maintain runbooks, weekend readiness checklists, and reliability playbooks.

Required qualifications

• 5+ years in Site Reliability, DevOps, or Platform Engineering roles.
• Expertise in observability with hands-on experience operating the LGTM stack (Loki, Grafana, Mimir, Tempo) and ClickHouse.
• Hands-on experience with Linux systems.
• Networking fundamentals.
• Experience operating cloud provider infrastructure such as DNS, BGP route reflectors, RPKI, or repository mirrors.
• Proficiency in at least two of Golang, Python, or PHP.
• Working knowledge of infrastructure automation using Puppet and/or Ansible.
• Experience troubleshooting Kubernetes deployments.
• Understanding of monitoring, alerting, and SLO/SLI concepts.
• Availability for a weekend shift schedule (Wednesday–Sunday or Saturday–Wednesday).

Nice to have

• Debian-based Linux systems

Benefits

• 100% company-paid insurance premiums for employee medical, dental and vision plans.
• 401(k) plan that matches 100% up to 4%, with immediate vesting
• Professional Development Reimbursement of $2,500 each year
• 11 Holidays + Paid Time Off Accrual + Rollover Plan
• Increased PTO at 3 year and 10 year anniversary
• 1 month paid sabbatical every 5 years
• Anniversary Bonus each year
• $500 stipend for remote office setup in first year + $400 each following year
• Internet reimbursement up to $75 per month
• Gym membership reimbursement up to $50 per month
• Company paid Wellable subscription

Before you apply

• Vultr will not conduct a background check until after an offer of employment has been extended and accepted.

About the company

Vultr is a cloud infrastructure company with 33 global cloud data center locations. It provides Cloud Compute, Cloud GPU, Bare Metal, and Cloud Storage solutions.