Senior Site Reliability Engineer
Description
Company Overview:
Global Technology Services is a rapidly expanding organization situated in MedellÃn, Colombia. We pride ourselves on possessing one of the most influential networks within software development and IT services for the entertainment, financial, and logistics sectors. Our corporate projections offer a multitude of opportunities for professionals to elevate their careers and experience substantial growth. Joining our team means engaging with expansive engineering teams across Latin America, Philippines and the United States, contributing to cutting-edge developments in multiple industries.
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Position Title: Senior Site Reliability EngineerÂ
Location: Remote-LATAM
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What you will be doing:
We are seeking a highly experienced Senior Site Reliability Engineer to own and evolve the reliability, security, observability, and operational maturity of our cloud platform. This is not a traditional SRE role. We are looking for an engineer who operates with an AI-native mindset and uses AI as a core operational force multiplier across infrastructure, incident response, automation, compliance, and operational excellence.
Required Skills & Experience
To excel in this role, you should possess:
- AI-Native SRE Operations (Hard Requirement)
Expert-level proficiency using AI to automate SRE and infrastructure operations
Demonstrated daily use of AI assistants and agentic workflows as a core part of engineering practice
Hands-on experience using AI for:
- Terraform authoring and review
- incident triage
- log analysis
- runbook generation
- operational automation
- postmortem drafting
- Lambda automation
- pipeline generation
- recurring operational task reduction
Strong understanding of where AI is effective and where human validation remains critical
Ability to clearly articulate AI workflows, tooling choices, operational safeguards, and production outcomes.
- Cloud Infrastructure & AWS (Hard Requirement)
10+ years of professional experience operating production infrastructure for SaaS platforms
Minimum 5+ years of senior-level AWS operational ownership
Deep expertise across AWS services including:
- VPC
- ECS
- IAM
- RDS
- S3
- CloudFront
- Route53
- ACM
- CloudWatch
- Secrets Manager
- SSM
- ALB
- API Gateway
- Lambda
Familiarity with AWS security and governance tooling including:
- WAF
- GuardDuty
- CloudTrail
- Inspector
- Security Hub
- AWS Config
- AWS Backup
- Terraform & Infrastructure as Code
Advanced Terraform experience managing multi-account, multi-workspace infrastructure
Strong understanding of:
- provider versioning
- state management
- drift detection and remediation
- dependency management
- infrastructure blast radius analysis
Proven experience resolving production infrastructure drift safely
- Incident Response & Operational Leadership
Significant experience leading production incidents as the accountable owner
Ability to operate calmly and effectively during high-severity outages
Proven experience authoring detailed postmortems and operational remediation plans
Strong understanding of operational risk management and production recovery procedures
- Observability & Monitoring
Hands-on experience building and operating observability platforms
Strong knowledge of:
- Grafana
- distributed tracing
- log aggregation
- alert tuning
- metric cardinality management
Experience diagnosing telemetry pipeline issues affecting production systems
Experience owning non-trivial CI/CD pipelines end-to-end
Strong understanding of:
- deployment strategies
- build optimization
- secret management
- artifact security
- pipeline security scanning
Experience implementing automated operational workflows and infrastructure automation
- Linux, Containers & Networking
Strong Linux systems administration and troubleshooting skills
Proficiency with:
- Bash scripting
- Python, Go, or TypeScript
Advanced Docker knowledge including:
- image hygiene
- multi-stage builds
- image scanning
- registry security
Deep networking knowledge including:
- TCP/IP
- DNS
- TLS
- HTTP
- ALB behavior
- VPC networking
- security groups
- NACLs
- VPC endpoints
- Security & Compliance
Strong operational security fundamentals including:
- IAM least privilege
- secrets management
- encryption
- network isolation
- vulnerability management
Understanding of OWASP Top 10 from an infrastructure and operations perspective
Experience integrating enterprise identity providers using:
- SAML
- OIDC
- SCIM provisioning
Experience implementing and maintaining technical compliance controls for:
- SOC-2
- ISO 27001
- HIPAA
- PCI or equivalent frameworks
Comfortable working directly with auditors and evidencing controls
Nice to Have:
- Experience supporting Spring Boot or JVM-based systems in production
- Experience with runtime security or EDR tooling such as Falco
- Experience automating joiner/mover/leaver identity workflows using SCIM and IdP tooling
- AWS certifications including:
AWS Solutions Architect Professional
AWS DevOps Engineer Professional
AWS Security Specialty
- Ability to read and debug Kotlin or Java backend services from an SRE perspective
Soft Skills:
- Excellent verbal and written communication, able to convey ideas clearly.
- Highly autonomous and proactive, taking ownership of tasks.
- Adaptable to fast-paced, dynamic work environments.
- Responsive and reliable across channels, including email and Slack, consistently delivering results.
- Able to add immediate value to the client, contributing effectively from the first week.
Why you will love GTS:
- Join a powerful tech workforce and help us change the world through technology
- Professional development opportunities with international customers
- Collaborative work environment
- Career path and mentorship programs that will lead to new levels.
Join Lean Tech and contribute to shaping the data landscape within a dynamic and
growing organization. Your skills will be honed, and your contributions will play a vital
role in our continued success. Lean Tech is an equal opportunity employer. We
celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all
employees.