Senior Site Reliability Engineer

About the role

Sysco LABS is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to design, build and continuously improve the reliability, availability, scalability and performance of its enterprise cloud data platforms on Google Cloud Platform and Amazon Web Services.

Key responsibilities

• Design, build and enhance cloud data platforms on GCP and AWS, ensuring high reliability and performance.
• Deploy, automate and manage infrastructure as code using Terraform and modern DevOps practices.
• Implement observability across infrastructure, databases and data pipelines with Datadog and cloud‑native monitoring tools.
• Define, monitor and improve SLIs, SLOs, error budgets and operational health metrics.
• Partner with Data Engineering teams to improve data platform reliability, quality, disaster recovery and resilience.
• Develop automation and self‑healing solutions to reduce operational toil.
• Lead production incident response, root‑cause analysis and post‑incident reviews.
• Drive cloud governance and FinOps initiatives to optimise resource utilisation and cloud costs.
• Evaluate and introduce modern SRE, DevOps and cloud technologies.
• Create and maintain operational documentation, runbooks and recovery procedures while mentoring engineers.

Required profile

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering or equivalent.
• At least 3 years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, Cloud or Platform Engineering supporting enterprise production environments.
• Hands‑on experience with Google Cloud Platform and/or Amazon Web Services.

Required skills

• Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
• Amazon Web Services (AWS)
• Terraform (Infrastructure as Code)
• Datadog and cloud‑native monitoring solutions
• Service Level Indicators (SLIs) and Service Level Objectives (SLOs)
• Automation and self‑healing scripting
• Incident response and root‑cause analysis
• Cloud governance and FinOps practices