• Deploy and maintain critical applications on cloud-native microservices architecture • Implement automation, effective monitoring, and infrastructure-as-code • Deploy and maintain CI/CD pipelines across multiple environments • Support and work alongside a cross-functional engineering team on the latest technologies • Iterate on best practices to increase the quality & velocity of deployments • Have on call responsibilities in rotation with the engineering team • Increase the sophistication of our alerting and escalation mechanisms • Help increase system performance with a focus on high availability and scalability • Propose, scope, design, and implement various infrastructure architectures • Develop and maintain solutions for operational administration, system/data backup, disaster recovery, and security/performance monitoring • Continuously evaluate existing systems with industry standards, and make recommendations for improvement • Perform root cause analysis for production errors • Continue to keep the lights on (day-to-day administration)

• Provide technical and line-management leadership to your development team. • Take responsibility for the successful delivery of projects. • Identify and resolve blockers before they become issues. • Ensure best practices in DevOps, software development and agile methodologies are upheld within the team. • Work directly with clients, translating requirements into technical briefs. • Shape and define architectural decisions ensuring scalability, security, and maintainability. • Provide updates to client and Nearform leadership to ensure clear understanding of project status and drive good decision-making.

This description is a summary of our understanding of the job description. Click on 'Apply' button to find out more. Role Description We are looking for a skilled individual to join our rapidly growing team at Bluelight Consulting. This position is ideal for someone who thrives in a fast-paced, dynamic environment where everyone's opinions and efforts are valued and appreciated. You will have the opportunity to contribute to challenging and meaningful projects, developing high-quality applications that stand out in the market. We value continuous learning, personal growth, and hard work, offering a collaborative environment that promotes professional development. If you are passionate about software development and eager to be part of a growing software consultancy, we invite you to apply and join us on this exciting journey. Qualifications - Cloud Engineering (cloud computing) experience with AWS, GCP, and/or Azure to include load balancing - Infrastructure as a code (Terraform / Pulumi / Cloudformation) - Designed and maintained CI/CD process and tools (CircleCI, GitLab, Jenkins) - In-depth experience with the orchestration tools (Kubernetes) - In-depth experience with the config management tools (Helm, Ansible, Chef Puppet) - Testing, code review, good communication skills Benefits - Competitive salary and bonuses, including performance-based salary increases - Generous paid-time-off policy - Technology / Office stipend - Health Coverage - Flexible working hours - Work remotely - Continuing education, training, conferences - Company-sponsored coursework, exams, and certifications

• Design and evolve reliability architecture for distributed and cloud-hosted systems. • Define and implement SRE best practices, including SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, and capacity planning. • Partner with platform and application teams to design systems for reliability, scalability, and operability. • Identify and mitigate systemic reliability risks across infrastructure and services. • Lead incident response processes including on-call rotations, escalation, and post-incident reviews. • Conduct root cause analysis for complex production incidents and drive long-term improvements. • Improve operational readiness through runbooks, automation, and resilience testing. • Reduce operational toil through tooling, automation, and process improvements. • Design and maintain observability systems for metrics, logging, tracing, and alerting. • Ensure services and data pipelines are observable, debuggable, and performant in production. • Drive performance analysis and tuning across infrastructure and service layers. • Build automation to improve system reliability, deployment safety, and recovery processes. • Partner with DevOps and Cloud Platform teams on CI/CD reliability, rollout strategies, and safe deployment patterns. • Support and improve Kubernetes-based environments and containerized workloads. • Collaborate with security teams to ensure secure and resilient system design. • Participate in disaster recovery planning and testing. • Maintain strong operational practices around access control, secrets management, and change management.