Sr Site Reliability Engineer

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Renaissance Learning North America is hiring a Sr Site Reliability Engineer. This role focuses on enhancing application and infrastructure availability, reliability, observability, and security for a distributed SaaS platform serving millions of K-12 students worldwide. The engineer will collaborate with cross-functional teams to improve system resilience, support CI/CD pipelines, manage infrastructure-as-code, and contribute to disaster recovery efforts.

Highlights

Improve observability, reliability, resiliency, and auditability of systems to prevent downtime.
Work with Terraform, CloudFormation, and support CI/CD pipelines.
Manage and monitor containerized cloud environments, preferably AWS EKS.
Participate in on-call rotations and handle off-hour incidents and deployments.
5+ years of SRE experience required with programming skills in .NET, Java, Python, or Javascript.
Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools like Terraform, Docker, and Ansible.
Bonus skills: Kubernetes management, GitLab/GitHub pipelines, monitoring and alerting tools (NewRelic, Datadog, Grafana, CloudWatch, PagerDuty).
Compensation range: $109,500–$150,550 USD annually.
Benefits include medical, dental, vision, 401(k) with company match, paid time off, parental leave, and tuition reimbursement.
Supports AI tooling integration into SRE workflows and emphasizes teamwork and coaching.

Sr Site Reliability Engineer Full Description

About Renaissance

When you join RenaissanceÂ®, you join a global leader in pre-Kâ12 education technology! Renaissanceâs solutions help educators analyze, customize, and plan personalized learning paths for students, allowing time for what mattersâcreating energizing learning experiences in the classroom. Our fiercely passionate employees and educational partners have helped drive phenomenal student growth, with Renaissance solutions being used in over one-third of US schools and in more than 100 countries worldwide.

Every day, we are connected to our mission by exemplifying our values: trust each other, win together, strive for the best, own our actions, and grow and evolve.

Job Description

Renaissance is looking for an experienced Sr Site Reliability Engineer to be part of the Engineering Enablement groupâs Site Reliability Team with a focus on Application and Infrastructure Availability, Reliability, Observability & Security.

We are at the crossroads of evolving our current team and looking for someone who has been involved in the SRE implementation journey at other companies. We are looking for someone who influences our SRE philosophy and practices, who is a problem solver, self-motivated, great at communication, values teamwork. You will apply your technical expertise to build and scale our highly available distributed SaaS platform used by millions of K-12 students worldwide.

In this role as a Sr Site Reliability Engineer, you will

Work with engineering, security & governance teams to improve observability, reliability, resiliency, auditability of our systems and minimize/prevent downtime.
Contribute to infrastructure-as-code using Terraform & CloudFormation.
Support CI/CD pipelines which ensures the prompt release of high-quality software.
Collaborate with cross-functional teams to resolve infrastructure issues.
Perform Disaster Recovery exercises on our products.
Explore and integrate AI tooling into the SRE workflows.
Be part of an on-call rotation & support off hour incidents & deployments.
Demonstrates strong skills in giving constructive feedback through coaching even without direct reports.

For this role as a Sr Site Reliability Engineer, you must have:

5+ years of experience focused on SRE.
Experience in managing & monitoring containerized cloud environments in production, preferably AWS EKS.
Experience with IaC, Configuration Management and Orchestration Tools like Terraform/Docker/Ansible.
Hands-on experience in any of the programming or scripting languages like .NET/Java, Python, Javascript etc .,
On Call experience & willingness to be on call during non-work hours and weekends.
Experience working in an agile environment.

Bonus points for:

BS in Information Systems or Computer Science, related field experience, or both.
Managing Kubernetes Clusters, EKS at Scale using Helm.
Setting up Gitlab & Github pipelines & workflows.
Experience setting up Monitoring, Logging, Alerting & Observability in tools such as NewRelic, Datadog, Grafana. CloudWatch, PagerDuty.
Experience w/Teleport, Hashicorp Boundary etc.,
Experience w/RedShift, OpenSearch/ZeroETL.
Experience running Disaster Recovery exercises.
Implementing service level objectives (SLO/SLI/SLAâs) & error budgets.
Experience using ClaudeCode using agentic coding, agentic SDLC, enabling/rolling-out agentic DX.

Additional Information

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines. #LI-Remote

The below compensation range is based on national market data and may vary by experience and location.

Salary Range

$109,500—$150,550 USD

Benefits for eligible US employees include:

World Class Health Benefits: Medical, Prescription, Dental, Vision, Telehealth
Health Savings and Flexible Spending Accounts
401(k) and Roth 401(k) with company match
Paid Vacation and Sick Time Off
12 Paid Holidays
Parental Leave (20 total weeks with 14 weeks paid) & Milk Stork program
Tuition Reimbursement
Life & Disability Insurance
Well-being and Employee Assistance Programs

Benefits listed apply to eligible U.S. employees in accordance with Renaissanceâs benefits eligibility criteria. Contractor and other nonâemployee roles are not eligible for Renaissance employee benefits.

Frequently cited statistics show that some women, underrepresented individuals, protected veterans and individuals with disabilities may only apply to roles if they meet 100% of the qualifications. At Renaissance, we encourage all applications. Roles evolve over time, especially with innovation, and you may be just the person we need for the future!

Equal Opportunity Employer

Renaissance is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate with respect to any term, condition or privilege of employment based on race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, military or veteran status, marital status, or status of an individual in any group or class protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.

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Reasonable Accommodations

Renaissance also provides reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities in accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act and applicable state and local laws. If accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, please contact Talent Acquisition.

Employment Authorization

Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the United States. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment Visa at this time.

For more information about Renaissance, visit: https://www.renaissance.com

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