Senior Cloud Reliability Engineer

About the Opportunity Our client is seeking an innovative, hands-on senior reliability engineer who thrives at the intersection of cloud reliability, technical problem solving, and application team partnership. In this role, you will work closely with cross-functional teams to strengthen the availability, recoverability, and operational maturity of our client's cloud platform in a regulated financial services environment.

Debug and resolve complex issues across AWS services, Terraform configurations, and GitLab CI/CD pipelines in direct partnership with application teams Design and implement multi-region AWS architectures aligned to application-specific RTO/RPO targets Troubleshoot GitLab pipeline failures — job dependencies, OIDC auth issues, runner configuration, artifact handling, and deployment stage failures Lead application teams through reliability assessments, production readiness reviews, and resilience improvement plans Establish reusable reliability patterns, standards, and scorecards that improve consistency across application teams Execute fault injection scenarios using AWS Fault Injection Service (FIS) across compute, database, network, and dependency layers Monitor application and infrastructure behavior during FIS experiments — capturing metrics, surfacing gaps, and driving remediation with owning teams

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent practical experience

10+ years of experience in the technology industry, including 5+ years of hands-on cloud engineering expertise

5+ years of hands-on experience in cloud engineering or site reliability engineering on AWS

Expert knowledge of AWS architecture and reliability-related services including Lambda, ECS, RDS/Aurora, DynamoDB, S3, SQS, EventBridge, CloudWatch, and Route 53

Strong diagnostic skills across AWS infrastructure, Terraform-based infrastructure as code, and CI/CD delivery workflows

Hands-on experience with AWS Fault Injection Service (FIS) or equivalent chaos engineering tooling to validate system behavior under failure conditions

Familiarity with AWS Resilience Hub for resiliency scoring, recommendations, and policy enforcement

Experience with production readiness reviews, reliability scorecards, and resilience improvement planning

Expert-level knowledge of AWS IAM policy development, least-privilege role design, and Service Control Policies (SCPs)

Proficiency writing, testing, and debugging Python applications and automation scripts

Ability to influence reliability standards, mentor engineers, and drive enterprise-wide adoption of resilient cloud patterns

Strong grasp of software development lifecycle (SDLC) and agile delivery concepts

Comfortable delivering independently while also serving as a technical leader for cross-functional engineering teams

AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Associate Applications will be accepted through October 30th, 2026.

All employees receive the same benefits, policies, and terms of employment.

Eight Eleven Group is an equal opportunity employer that does not discriminate on the basis of actual or perceived race, color, creed, religion, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, age, sex or gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, lactation, and related medical conditions), gender identity or gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, military service and veteran status, physical or mental disability, protected medical condition as defined by applicable state or local law, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws and ordinances.

Brooksource offers competitive medical, dental, vision, Health Savings Account, Dependent Care FSA, and supplemental coverage with plans that can fit each employee's needs. We offer a 401k plan that includes a company match and is fully vested after you become eligible, paid time off, sick time, and paid company holidays. We also offer an Employee Assistance Program (EAP) that provides services like virtual counseling, financial services, legal services, life coaching, etc.

Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.