Senior Site Reliability Engineer
We are hiring a Site Reliability Engineer to champion the availability, performance, and scaling of customer-facing production services across our client’s global infrastructure and Alibaba Cloud environments. In this role, you will build and operate world-class observability systems that analyze billions of metrics per minute, ensuring seamless, 100% reliable experiences for hundreds of millions of users worldwide.
This is a contractor position.
Working hours: Overlap with CST time zone.
Essential functions
Own, monitor, and defend the availability, latency, and performance metrics (SLIs/SLOs) of customer-facing production services.
Maintain and optimise customer-serving production environments, including AliCloud services (ACK Kubernetes, ECS, Serverless, RDS)
Manage external-facing networking, content delivery, and load balancing (SLB/ALB, Global Traffic Manager, AliCloud CDN) to ensure minimal latency for users worldwide.
Maintain zero-downtime deployment pipelines so new features ship safely and continuously without disrupting customer workflows. Spinnaker experience a plus.
Build customer-centric dashboards and alerting frameworks using Prometheus, Grafana, and AliCloud Log Service (SLS) to catch and resolve user-facing issues before they generate support tickets.
Drive incident response and management for production systems, conducting deep root-cause analysis across software, systems, automation, and process.
Qualifications
Proven experience developing production-grade software in Python (scripting/automation proficiency in Python, and scripting in Bash, Go and Rust exposure a plus).
Hands-on experience deploying and operating user-facing applications on Alibaba Cloud, with strong container orchestration experience using ACK (or equivalent Kubernetes experience).
Solid experience using Terraform for infrastructure-as-code and version-controlled production environments. Pulumi experience a plus.
Experience/knowledge with the Prometheus ecosystem.
Experience and confidence around incident response and incident management.
Would be a plus
Cross-border optimisation experience, specifically using AliCloud Cloud Enterprise Network (CEN) or Express Connect to link China-mainland and global markets.
Experience securing tenant data using AliCloud RAM, KMS, and ensuring compliance (ISO 27001, SOC2, or local data privacy laws).
Alibaba Cloud Certified Professional (ACP) or Expert (ACE) certification.
We offer
Opportunity to work on bleeding-edge projects
Work with a highly motivated and dedicated team
Competitive salary
Flexible schedule
Benefits package - medical insurance, sports
Corporate social events
Professional development opportunities
About us
Grid Dynamics (NASDAQ: GDYN) is a leading provider of technology consulting, platform and product engineering, AI, and advanced analytics services. Fusing technical vision with business acumen, we solve the most pressing technical challenges and enable positive business outcomes for enterprise companies undergoing business transformation. A key differentiator for Grid Dynamics is our 8 years of experience and leadership in enterprise AI, supported by profound expertise and ongoing investment in data, analytics, cloud & DevOps, application modernization and customer experience. Founded in 2006, Grid Dynamics is headquartered in Silicon Valley with offices across the Americas, Europe, and India.Apply to the position
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