Multi-Region Reliability & Availability (Primary Focus)

• Design and operate multi-region architectures (active/active or active/passive)
• Implement and improve automated failover and traffic routing
• Identify and eliminate single points of failure
• Ensure regional isolation and graceful degradation when dependencies fail

High Availability & Disaster Recovery

• Define realistic availability goals and failure scenarios
• Design and test backup and restore processes
• Own disaster recovery plans and validate them through regular testing
• Help the team understand RTO/RPO trade-offs

Observability & Incident Response

• Build and maintain clear, actionable observability (metrics, logs, traces)
• Create alerts that detect real problems without noise
• Participate in on-call and help improve incident response
• Lead or contribute to blameless postmortems and follow-up fixes

Automation & Operations

• Reduce manual operational work through automation
• Improve deployment safety (rollbacks, health checks, canaries where appropriate)
• Manage infrastructure using infrastructure as code
• Design systems that recover automatically whenever possible

Performance & Capacity

• Monitor performance and saturation across regions
• Help with capacity planning and load testing
• Balance reliability, performance, and cost

• Experience operating production systems with real availability requirements
• Hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure and distributed systems
• Strong understanding of: 
  • High availability patterns
  • Failure modes in distributed systems
  • Multi-region trade-offs
• Comfortable being hands-on: debugging, automating, improving systems
• Pragmatic mindset — you know when simple is better than perfect
• Clear communicator who works well in a small, collaborative team

Core Technical Requirements

Cloud & Infrastructure

• Strong expertise in Amazon Web Services (multi-region architecture)
• Experience designing Active-Active / Active-Passive deployments
• Disaster Recovery planning (RTO/RPO)
• Advanced knowledge of VPC networking, IAM, Route 53, Load Balancers, and EKS
• Infrastructure as Code (e.g., Terraform)

Containers & Orchestration

• Advanced experience with Kubernetes (EKS preferred)
• Strong knowledge of Docker
• Experience managing scalable, highly available containerized workloads

API Management

• Hands-on experience with Kong
• API gateway configuration, authentication, rate limiting, and high availability design

Monitoring & Observability (Expert Level)

• Advanced knowledge of Splunk
• Strong expertise in Dynatrace
• Experience defining SLIs/SLOs, alerting strategies, and root cause analysis
• Incident management and production troubleshooting

Nice to Have

• Experience with global PostgreSQL architectures (cross-region replication, failover, performance tuning)
• Experience with Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines
• Working knowledge of C#
• Strong Linux administration and troubleshooting skills

Key Competencies

• Designing and operating highly available, resilient systems
• Automation-first mindset
• Deep production troubleshooting skills
• Strong collaboration and communication abilities

Our People, Our Culture

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