Site Reliability Engineer - Weekend
Vultr is an active independent cloud-infrastructure company providing global compute, GPU, bare-metal, storage, Kubernetes, and serverless AI inference services.
About Vultr
Vultr provides globally available cloud infrastructure for developers, enterprises, and AI innovators, including Cloud Compute, Cloud GPU, Bare Metal, Cloud Storage, managed Kubernetes, and serverless inference.
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About the Role
You will work weekend shifts (Wednesday–Sunday or Saturday–Wednesday) owning monitoring, incident response and escalation for core cloud systems like DNS, BGP route reflectors, RPKI and repository mirrors. You will build dashboards, alerts and automation with the LGTM stack and ClickHouse, use Terraform, Puppet and Ansible, reduce toil, troubleshoot Linux, Kubernetes and network issues, and maintain runbooks.
Requirements
- 5+ years in Site Reliability, DevOps or Platform Engineering
- Expertise in observability with LGTM stack and ClickHouse
- Hands-on experience with Linux systems and networking fundamentals
- Experience operating cloud infrastructure such as DNS, BGP route reflectors, RPKI or repository mirrors
- Proficiency in at least two of Golang, Python or PHP
- Working knowledge of Puppet and/or Ansible
- Experience troubleshooting Kubernetes deployments
- Understanding of monitoring, alerting and SLO/SLI concepts
- Availability for weekend shift schedule
- Strong problem-solving, debugging and communication skills
Responsibilities
- Own weekend monitoring, incident response and escalation
- Operate and automate DNS, BGP route reflectors, RPKI and repository mirrors
- Operate a broad range of Linux services
- Implement dashboards, alerts and automation with LGTM stack and ClickHouse
- Respond to production incidents and contribute to post-incident reviews
- Automate infrastructure with Terraform, Puppet and Ansible
- Eliminate toil by automating manual tasks and improving CI/CD checks
- Troubleshoot Linux, Kubernetes and network issues
- Collaborate with Platform Services, Shared Services and application teams
- Maintain runbooks, readiness checklists and playbooks
Benefits
- 100% company-paid medical, dental and vision insurance premiums
- 401(k) with 100% match up to 4% and immediate vesting
- $2,500 annual professional development reimbursement
- 11 holidays plus PTO accrual and rollover
- Increased PTO at 3 and 10 year anniversaries
- 1 month paid sabbatical every 5 years
- Annual anniversary bonus
- $500 remote office stipend first year and $400 each following year
- Internet reimbursement up to $75 per month
- Gym membership reimbursement up to $50 per month
- Company paid Wellable subscription