Senior Site Reliability Engineer

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Senior SRE owning Kubernetes patching, Vault integration, and observability for GoDaddy’s Linux fleet. Improving reliability and automating vulnerability remediation for entrepreneurs’ online tools.

Responsibilities:

  • Own the Kubernetes-aware patching path, including cordon/drain/uncordon coordination, etcd quorum gating, per-cluster lock prioritisation, and deadlock prevention
  • Own cluster onboarding end-to-end, reduce lead time from weeks to days, identify friction points, document repeatable steps, and build runbooks
  • Own the Vault integration surface, including AppRole credential management, PKI certificate lifecycle, Vault-backed AWX credential types, and IAM key rotation
  • Build meaningful alerting and own at least one Grafana dashboard area end-to-end, from metrics ingestion through actionable alert rules
  • Contribute to AI and automation initiatives, including the AI-driven vulnerability remediation pipeline and tooling that reduces team toil
  • Mentor junior contributors and participate in code reviews
  • Contribute to architectural decisions alongside Staff leads
  • Participate in the on-call rotation
  • Own incident response independently at the Senior level, including timeline, communication, and blameless postmortem
  • Build and operate the Linux Patching Automation platform, a multi-cluster AWX automation system that keeps GoDaddy's Linux fleet patched and secure

Requirements:

  • 7+ years of hands-on Site Reliability Engineering or infrastructure engineering experience in a production environment
  • Strong Ansible practitioner; able to write idempotent roles and playbooks independently and understand variable precedence, handlers, and molecule-style testing
  • Linux systems administration experience with yum/dnf, systemd, kernel patching, and diagnosing package conflicts
  • Kubernetes operational depth, including pod scheduling, node lifecycle, and etcd quorum awareness
  • Terraform / IaC literacy; able to read, modify, and write modules configured through variable files
  • Python scripting experience sufficient to own and extend utility scripts and the machine learning-based vulnerability pipeline
  • GitHub Actions and CI pipeline experience, including ansible-lint, Semgrep gates, and conventional commit standards
  • Prior on-call rotation and incident response experience; able to own an incident independently
  • Active participation in AI-assisted development
  • SLI / SLO literacy
  • HashiCorp Vault experience, including AppRole, PKI, or dynamic secrets (preferred)
  • AWX / Automation Controller operational experience (preferred)
  • ServiceNow experience with CMDB, Change Orders, or REST API integration
  • Grafana / Loki / Prometheus experience building dashboards and alert rules
  • MySQL replica awareness
  • HAProxy or load-balancer-aware drain logic
  • OpenStack or comparable private cloud / bare-metal exposure
  • Experience identifying and reducing process lead time
  • The posting encourages applications from candidates whose experience or skillset does not align perfectly with every requirement

Benefits:

  • Paid time off
  • Retirement savings, including 401k and pension schemes
  • Bonus/incentive eligibility
  • Equity grants
  • Employee stock purchase plan
  • Competitive health benefits
  • Parental leave
  • Family-friendly benefits
  • Employee Resource Groups
  • Application assistance from the recruiting team