Senior Staff Site Reliability Engineer

About the role

Hewlett Packard Enterprise is hiring a Senior Staff Site Reliability Engineer in San Juan, Puerto Rico. The role is hybrid, with an average of two days per week spent in an HPE office. As a Staff Software Engineer, you will design, build and optimize cloud infrastructure and deployment systems, directly affecting scalability, security and operational efficiency.

Key responsibilities

• Enhance Infrastructure as Code (IAC) and enforce best practices
• Optimize cloud infrastructure for scalability, security and cost-effectiveness
• Develop internal tools to streamline cloud platform operations
• Improve CI/CD pipelines and deployment workflows using FluxCD and Jenkins
• Address container image vulnerabilities and standardize remediation
• Build Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) aligned with CIS and STIG benchmarks
• Strengthen monitoring, alerting and observability with Prometheus, Grafana and logging tools
• Troubleshoot complex production issues and tune distributed systems such as Apache Kafka and Cassandra
• Collaborate with development, security and operations teams

Required profile

• At least 10 years of hands-on experience in Infra Ops, Dev Ops or Site Reliability Engineering
• Strong experience with cloud platforms such as AWS and GCP
• Proven track record in implementing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines
• Background in security and familiarity with security programs
• Experience with monitoring and logging tools, and with distributed systems like Kafka and Cassandra
• Excellent problem-solving, debugging and ownership skills, and effective communication

Required skills

• Linux, especially Debian-based distributions
• Infrastructure as Code: Terraform, Packer, Ansible
• Programming in Python and/or Go
• Containerization (Docker) and orchestration (AWS EKS, GCP GKE)
• GitOps workflows
• Relational (SQL) and non-relational databases

Preferred: open-source contributions and a background in security engineering. Benefits include health and wellbeing support, professional development programs and an inclusive workplace.