Sr. Site Reliability Engineer

VERSANT (Nasdaq: VSNT) is an industry-changing media and entertainment business and home to trusted brands that shape culture, inform audiences, and build lasting connections. They are seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to drive the reliability, scalability, and usability of internal developer platforms and tooling across a portfolio of industry-leading brands.

Responsibilities:

• Lead the design, implementation, and operation of reliable internal developer platforms and self-service infrastructure provisioning capabilities
• Build, maintain, and optimize CI/CD pipelines, deployment workflows, and automation across GitHub Actions, Jenkins, ArgoCD, and related technologies
• Apply Site Reliability Engineering principles, including SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, and DORA metrics, to improve developer-facing systems and software delivery performance
• Drive adoption of engineering best practices, platform standards, and self-service capabilities across multiple engineering teams
• Develop and maintain golden paths, service templates, scaffolding tools, and standardized engineering workflows that accelerate software delivery and reduce operational complexity
• Improve local development environments, CLI tooling, environment provisioning, preview deployments, and ephemeral environments to enhance developer productivity
• Build observability solutions and dashboards that provide visibility into CI/CD health, deployment success, build performance, developer wait times, and platform reliability
• Partner with engineering teams to identify sources of operational toil and implement automation that improves efficiency, reliability, and developer experience
• Support cloud-native workloads and deployment patterns across containers, serverless technologies, and event-driven architectures
• Troubleshoot and resolve issues impacting developer workflows, including build failures, test instability, deployment issues, and environment drift
• Collaborate with Security and Platform Operations teams to embed secure-by-default controls and compliance guardrails into developer workflows
• Mentor engineers and provide technical guidance on platform architecture, automation strategies, observability, and cloud-native development practices
• Influence platform roadmaps and technical investments through data-driven recommendations and cross-functional collaboration

Requirements:

• 5+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, Platform Engineering, Developer Experience, DevOps, or related engineering disciplines
• Experience building and supporting internal developer platforms, self-service infrastructure, or developer tooling
• Strong hands-on experience with CI/CD technologies, including GitHub Actions, Jenkins, ArgoCD, or similar platforms
• Experience with AWS cloud services and Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, or Pulumi
• Proficiency in scripting and automation using Python, Go, Bash, TypeScript, or similar languages
• Experience working with containerized environments and orchestration technologies including Docker, ECS, and Kubernetes
• Familiarity with observability practices and tools, including Datadog and application performance monitoring solutions
• Experience leading technical initiatives that span multiple teams or product domains
• Strong troubleshooting, analytical, and problem-solving skills
• Ability to create clear technical documentation, guides, and operational runbooks
• Experience supporting modern application frameworks and cloud-native architectures
• Willingness to participate in an on-call rotation supporting production systems and developer platforms
• AWS certifications such as Solutions Architect or DevOps Engineer
• Experience supporting high-scale consumer-facing digital platforms
• Familiarity with cloud cost optimization and FinOps practices
• Experience with developer portals, service catalogs, or internal platform products