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Infrastructure / Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)
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About the Role
Mercor connects exceptional technical talent with leading organisations working on ambitious technology and AI initiatives. We are looking for experienced Infrastructure / Site Reliability Engineers (SREs) to join a full-time engagement focused on building and operating complex, enterprise-grade infrastructure. We are seeking engineers with strong hands-on experience building, operating, debugging, and scaling sophisticated production systems. The ideal candidate has worked extensively with Kubernetes, AWS, observability platforms such as Datadog, and modern infrastructure tooling. This is a full-time opportunity, and candidates must be able to commit to full-time engagement.
What You'll Do
- Build, operate, and improve highly available and scalable production infrastructure.
- Manage and optimise Kubernetes-based production environments.
- Design and maintain cloud infrastructure, primarily across AWS.
- Improve system reliability, availability, scalability, and operational efficiency.
- Build and maintain observability across infrastructure and applications using Datadog or similar platforms.
- Investigate production incidents, perform root-cause analysis, and implement durable fixes.
- Improve monitoring, alerting, logging, tracing, and overall production visibility.
- Develop automation and internal tooling to reduce manual operational work.
You're a Good Fit If You
- Professional experience in Infrastructure Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), Platform Engineering, DevOps, or Production Engineering.
- Hands-on experience operating complex, enterprise-grade production systems.
- Strong production experience with Kubernetes.
- Strong experience with AWS and cloud-native infrastructure.
- Experience with Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, or comparable observability platforms.
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, Pulumi, or equivalent technologies.
- Strong understanding of distributed systems, networking, containers, Linux, and cloud architecture.
- Experience building or maintaining CI/CD and production deployment infrastructure.
Role Highlights
Pay & Payout
Independent contractor engagement. Apply via the link below - Mercor handles onboarding and pays weekly via Stripe or Wise.
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