Location: Remote
Compensation: $160,000 - 180,000 per year, depending on experience and qualifications.
Employment Type: Full-Time
What you can expect as the Senior Site Reliability Engineer at Fortress…
The Senior Site Reliability Engineer is responsible for ensuring the reliability, performance, and scalability of critical systems and services across AWS and on-premises environments. This role focuses on improving deployment processes, strengthening CI/CD pipelines, increasing automation, and enhancing system monitoring and observability. The position also leads key efforts such as transitioning applications to containerized deployments, implementing advanced deployment strategies, and improving shared infrastructure for developers. Candidates in this role will support production environments, manage incident response, and contribute to continuous improvement of Fortress’ operational reliability.
Responsibilities Include
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Transition applications from traditional (non-containerized) Ansible deployments to containerized, orchestrated deployments in AWS and on-premises environments
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Build upon current CI/CD efforts to support different deployment strategies (Blue/Green, Canary, etc.)
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Support Development/QA/UAT efforts by building an environment for anyone in the company to test drive a release anywhere in the development lifecycle
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Improve common infrastructure for developers, such as CI/CD pipelines, log/application monitoring, cluster management, and configuration management
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Migrate application secrets and configuration from Ansible Vault to Hashicorp Vault
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Automate infrastructure provisioning during deployment
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Handle code deployments in all environments (cloud, on-premises)
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Implement tools to monitor and alert with respect to service level metrics and objectives
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Provide technical guidance and educate team members and coworkers on development and operations
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Monitor relevant systems for availability and performance
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Available to support daytime and after business hours release activities
Employee Benefits
- Remote and Hybrid working environment
- Competitive pay structure
- Medical, dental, vision plans with employees covered up to 90% with highly progressive options for dependents and families
- Company paid life, short- and long-term disability insurance
- Employee Assistance Program
- 401(k) match
- Flexible Paid Time Off
- Parental Leave
Employment Perks
- We provide each employee with professional growth opportunities through succession planning, up-skilling, and certifications
- Tuition and certification reimbursement
- Employee Referral Programs
- Company Sponsored Events
Fortress is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. All employees and applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, color, disability, gender, national origin, race, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, protected veteran status, or any other classification protected by federal, state, or local law. Fortress Information Security takes part in the E-Verify process for all new hires.
For positions located in the US, the following conditions apply. If you are made a conditional offer of employment, you will have to undergo a drug test. ADA Disclaimer: In developing this job description care was taken to include all competencies needed to successfully perform in this position. However, for Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) purposes, the essential functions of the job may or may not have been described for purposes of ADA reasonable accommodation. All reasonable accommodation requests will be reviewed and evaluated on a case-by-case basis.