About the Role
We are seeking a Senior SRE to join our Platform Engineering team, responsible for the reliability, scalability, and operational excellence of workflow orchestration platforms like Apache Airflow and Broadcom Automic/UC4. This hybrid role involves approximately 50% steady state operations and incident response, and 50% engineering projects to enhance the supported platforms. The ideal candidate is driven by excellence, aiming to continuously improve observability, reduce toil, and simplify support tasks.
Responsibilities
- Serve as a primary escalation point for production support involving Airflow and UC4, assisting with end-user inquiries, incident root cause analysis, and implementing solutions.
- Own and continuously improve SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets for orchestration platforms.
- Monitor platform health, capacity, and performance, proactively identifying and remediating issues.
- Partner with data engineering and application teams to troubleshoot DAG failures, job dependencies, and scheduling issues.
- Manage patching, upgrades, and configuration management for Airflow and UC4 environments.
- Collaborate with security to harden platform configurations and manage software vulnerabilities.
- Contribute to on-call rotations and maintain runbooks and escalation procedures.
- Design and build tooling and automation to reduce toil and improve developer experience.
- Lead or contribute to platform modernization initiatives, such as migrating workloads, improving deployment pipelines, containerizing components, or adopting managed service offerings.
- Develop and maintain infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Helm, Ansible, etc.) for platform components.
- Build observability solutions (e.g., dashboards, alerting, log aggregation) for enhanced workflow visibility.
- Build and enforce standards around platform use to promote best practices at scale.
- Participate in design reviews and contribute to the platform roadmap.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in a technical field or equivalent practical experience.
- 5+ years of experience in SRE, DevOps, or platform engineering roles.
- Deep hands-on experience with Apache Airflow, including distributed executor configurations, DAG authoring best practices, and multi-environment deployments.
- Experience operating enterprise job scheduling platforms (e.g., Automic/UC4, Control-M).
- Strong Linux and Windows systems knowledge.
- Comfort working in cloud environments (AWS preferred).
- Proficiency in Python for automation and tooling; familiarity with shell scripting.
- Experience with container orchestration (Kubernetes, Docker) and CI/CD pipelines.
- Solid understanding of observability principles – metrics, logging, tracing – and tools like ELK, Grafana, and Prometheus.
- Demonstrated ability to drive incidents to resolution and communicate clearly under pressure.
- A bias toward automation and a low tolerance for repetitive manual work.
Skills
- Apache Airflow
- Broadcom Automic/UC4
- Linux
- Windows
- AWS
- Python
- Shell scripting
- Kubernetes
- Docker
- CI/CD pipelines
- ELK
- Grafana
- Prometheus
- Terraform
- Helm
- Ansible
Location
- Hybrid
Work Type
- Hybrid
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Senior
- 5+ years
Education Level
- Bachelor's degree in a technical field or equivalent practical experience
Benefits
- Comprehensive benefits
- Educational initiatives
- Special celebrations of our history, culture, and growth
About the Company
- Dimensional offers a variety of programs to help take care of you, your family, and your career, including comprehensive benefits, educational initiatives, and special celebrations of our history, culture, and growth.
Equal Opportunity
- It is the policy of the Company to provide equal opportunity for all employees and applicants. The Company recruits, hires, trains, promotes, compensates, and administers all personnel actions without regard to actual or perceived race, color, religion, religious practice, creed, sex, sex stereotyping, pregnancy (which includes pregnancy, childbirth, and medical conditions related to pregnancy, childbirth, or breastfeeding), caregiver status, gender, gender identity, gender expression, transgender identity, national origin, age, mental or physical disability, ancestry, medical condition, marital status, familial status, domestic partnership status, military or veteran status or service, unemployment status, citizenship status or alienage, sexual orientation, status as a victim of domestic violence, status as a victim of stalking, status as a victim of sex offenses, genetic information, political activities or recreational activities, arrest or conviction record, salary history, natural hairstyle or any other status protected by applicable law except as otherwise required or permitted by law or regulation applicable to the Company or its affiliates.
