Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

About Corastone:
Corastone (formerly iownit.us) is a rapidly growing, US-based financial services technology firm disrupting the private investment markets. Our purpose is to unlock the potential & possibilities of the alternative investment marketplace for investors through innovation, technology, and market expertise. We enable broadened access and facilitate greater investor participation by delivering modern, innovative financial operating infrastructure & technology solutions for trading in alternatives based on blockchain technology solutions to market participants.

Position Overview:

We are actively seeking our first hire for the role of Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to join our Infrastructure team. As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer, you will collaborate across teams to consistently enhance and maintain a scalable, reliable production environment for operating the next-generation capital markets platform for alternative investments.

In this role, you will:

• Champion a culture of site reliability: Instill best practices and a robust reliability culture within your team.
• Drive technical excellence across your team, ensuring a high standard of reliability practices.
• Collaborate seamlessly with cross-functional teams to identify and resolve system or product reliability issues.
• Strengthen iownit's tech stack and deployments by fortifying our observability and monitoring pipelines, scaling systems, and advancing our release process.
• Lead the investigation and resolution of incidents with a focus on proactive monitoring and automation, ensuring postmortem actions are implemented to prevent recurrence.
• Guarantee the stability of releases to client environments, upholding a seamless user experience.
• Collaborate with team members and stakeholders to define clear and measurable service level agreements (SLAs) and service level indicators (SLIs), and establish realistic and achievable service level objectives (SLOs).
• Document and share knowledge within the organization through internal forums and communities of practice.
• Showcase expertise in reliability, scalability, performance, security, enterprise system architecture, and toil reduction. Implement these practices within applications or platforms.

You will get an opportunity to work in a team that keeps growing, innovating, and giving you room to be proactive and creative.

You’ll also work alongside a professional infrastructure team, which provides a solid baseline for the SRE role. With a highly automated infrastructure in place, your focus will be on enhancing and building rather than starting from scratch. You won’t be alone in this journey.

About you:

• At least 2 years of experience supporting and maintaining AWS infrastructure (VPC, EC2, ECS, Cloudwatch, Security Hub, IAM, S3, etc).
  
• Proficient with infrastructure-as-code approach using CloudFormation (our main tool) or Terraform (acceptable alternative).
  
• Can configure consolidated logging, alarms, and dashboards (core aspect of the role).
  
• Can easily navigate CloudWatch (one of the main tools) logs through multiple application layers to identify the root cause of an issue.
  
• Strong experience with modern container orchestration systems such as AWS ECS, with Kubernetes knowledge as a plus.
  
• Good understanding of network and security-related configurations in AWS environments; AWS Certified DevOps Engineer is a big plus.
• Used to create and execute playbooks to remediate standard issues.
• Some experience with scripting or programming languages (Bash, Python, Typescript).
• Strong bias for action and ownership, with the ability to take initiative in solving issues.
  

Nice to have:

• Experience with AWS Site-to-Site VPN or other VPN services.
• Experience with large-scale distributed systems is very appreciated.
• Practical experience in the identification and mitigation of DDoS attacks together with cybersecurity teams.
• Can work with databases using SQL and performance monitoring tools.

Last, but not least, we are here to bring value and positive experience to our clients and team. So you will join the team working on the common goal and sharing responsibility for the results!

Working Details:

• Corastone team members may be subject to third-party background checks, depending on their role.
• This U.S.-based position offers a competitive base salary that varies depending on the candidate’s location. Pay ranges may differ for specific regions.
• The role is flexible, allowing for remote or hybrid work arrangements. Our office is located in Houston, and while you're welcome to work from the office whenever you choose, it’s not a requirement.
• Candidates must reside within the United States to be considered.
• As a fully remote team, we are looking for individuals who thrive in a virtual work environment. To ensure security and effectiveness, you must have access to a high-speed, secure internet connection and a private, secure workspace for handling sensitive information. 

Corastone is committed to being an Equal Opportunity Employer. We evaluate all applicants for positions without regard to race, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws.