Site Reliability Engineer

Join Vida, a rapidly growing health technology company, as their first dedicated Site Reliability Engineer. In this role, you will modernize and scale the company's infrastructure, improve build and deploy automation, and enhance monitoring and observability. You will work closely with the Engineering Manager and Lead Engineer, and have the opportunity to shape the future of SRE at Vida.

• Modernize, consolidate, and scale infrastructure to support new enterprise contracts.
• Consolidate Terraform configurations into a clean, well-documented structure and establish conventions.
• Improve monitoring and observability in Datadog and Cloud Monitoring to catch issues before they become incidents.

• 5+ years of experience in SRE, DevOps, or infrastructure engineering, with real ownership of production systems
• Comfortable working across multiple teams and disciplines, and explaining infrastructure decisions to non-specialists
• Deep hands-on Terraform experience, including structuring modules and managing state across environments
• Proficiency in Python for tooling and automation
• Bachelor's degree at a minimum
• Production Kubernetes experience, including autoscaling, resource management, and judgment about what belongs in the cluster versus outside it
• Hands-on experience building monitoring, alerting, and dashboards with tools like Datadog or Cloud Monitoring
• Strong working knowledge of GCP, including GKE, Cloud SQL (MySQL and PostgreSQL), IAM, networking and load balancing, and cost management
• Experience as an early or first SRE hire
• Experience in a HIPAA-regulated or other compliance-driven environment
• Experience refactoring or consolidating a large, organically grown Terraform codebase
• Experience improving observability from a less mature baseline
• CI/CD experience with GitHub Actions
• Experience running Django applications or Airflow in production on Kubernetes
• Experience designing or migrating to multi-cluster Kubernetes architectures