Site Reliability Engineer

Responsibilities

• Manage, upgrade, and autoscale EKS clusters across multiple environments and AWS accounts
• Write Terraform modules and Helm charts to support GitOps workflows using ArgoCD and GitLab CI/CD
• Maintain and troubleshoot Kafka (MSK) clusters, including broker health and CDC pipelines
• Improve observability using Prometheus, Thanos, Grafana, and ELK
• Automate operational tasks with Python and leverage AI/ML techniques for predictive alerting
• Participate in the production on-call rotation and contribute to blameless post-mortems

Requirements

• 3+ years of experience in an SRE, DevOps, or Infrastructure Engineering role
• Strong hands-on experience with AWS services including EKS, EC2, RDS Aurora, MSK, S3, and IAM
• Deep production experience with Kubernetes (upgrades, networking, RBAC) and Helm
• Advanced proficiency with Terraform, including module development and multi-account management
• Experience supporting data platforms such as Airflow, Databricks, EMR, or Kafka/MSK
• Strong Python scripting skills for tooling and automation
• Experience managing observability stacks like Prometheus, Grafana, or ELK

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Karpenter and KEDA
• Experience with GitLab CI/CD pipelines
• Experience with Hashicorp Vault for secrets management

About the Company

Varo is an entirely new kind of bank. All digital, mission-driven, FDIC insured and designed for the way our customers live their lives. A bank for all of us.