Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Overview

iHeart

Media is the leading audio company in America, reaching 90% of Americans monthly and growing audiences across radio, podcasts, streaming, and live events. We value collaboration, curiosity, welcoming dissent, learning from mistakes, and respect for everyone. We are committed to a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace.

If you’re excited about this role but don’t feel your experience aligns perfectly with the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. We are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace and are looking for teammates passionate about what we do!

The Senior Site Reliability Engineer will lead a team of SREs/Dev Ops across a wide variety of Cloud Services. This role guides us toward a platform / systems architecture that is highly automated, fully instrumented, self-scaling, self-healing, and loosely coupled. Must be a go-getter with efficient multitasking abilities and strong people management skills.

• Standardize and modernize Amazon EKS platforms & AWS Serverless Suites, adhering to Dev Ops best practices.
• Provide expertise and hands-on implementation of large-scale Kubernetes workloads with high resiliency and multi-region architecture.
• Collaborate with 2 to 5 Site Reliability Engineers.
• Champion accountability; take responsibility through actions and thoughts.
• Design and implement end-to-end CI/CD pipelines with CDK and Code Pipeline, including source control, build tools, and deployment targets like Cloud Formation stacks.
• Prioritize and adapt quickly to a demanding, fast-paced, shift-left environment.
• Maximize automation to improve speed and quality while reducing repetitive operational work.
• Work with application delivery teams to design and build scalable and maintainable solutions for customers.
• Enforce Git Ops workflows where Git is the source of truth for EKS clusters and app state in multi-account, multi-region environments (FluxCD/ArgoCD).
• Develop baselines for governance, cost, and performance to ensure elastic cloud-based applications operate securely with zero downtime.
• Run reliability incident management processes, including root cause analysis, runbooks, and self-healing architectures.
• Instill standardization across Dev Ops processes for a wide range of applications.

• 6+ years of hands-on experience in public cloud, specifically AWS.
• 3+ years of leading SRE/Dev Ops teams across complex AWS ecosystems.
• Deep understanding of high-velocity SDLC, CI/CD, and monitoring for high-scale workloads.
• Expert proficiency in Kubernetes, Terraform, AWS CDK, Lambda, API Gateway, Route
  53, S3, EC2, load balancing, Dynamo
  
  DB, Cloud Watch, IAM, Networking, SQS, Event Bridge, etc.
• Adept at solving and troubleshooting high-volume distributed AWS architectures.
• Experience designing, building, and maintaining AWS infrastructure using AWS CDK (Type Script preferred) with modular patterns (multi-stack, multi-account, multi-region).
• Strong Git Ops understanding; experience with declarative configuration management in Git and tools like Flux or ArgoCD.
• Hands-on experience managing large-scale production EKS clusters across regions and AWS accounts.
• Knowledge of AWS cost optimization techniques (Reserved Instances, Spot Instances, lifecycle management).
• Proven ability to build highly secure AWS infrastructure with a security-first mindset.
• Proven ability to collaborate with development teams and drive decisions/initiatives.
• Strong software development background including microservices architecture and fluency in JavaScript, Type Script, Node.js, or Python.
• One or more of the following AWS
  
  Certifications:
  
  AWS Solutions Architect Associate, AWS Solutions Architect Professional, AWS Dev Ops Associate, AWS Dev Ops Professional, Professional Kubernetes Certifications.

• Respect for others and a belief in reciprocity of respect.
• Expertise across varied technical disciplines and applications.
• Attention to detail and quality orientation.
• Ability to multitask on multiple critical projects.
• Ability to work independently and with others.
• Strong communication skills, especially explaining complex technical information.
• Problem-solvin…