Job Description

Responsibilities

• Own remaining cost-optimization initiatives following major infrastructure cost-reduction efforts.
• Monitor and respond to SLI/SLO alerts and investigate production anomalies.
• Tune alert thresholds and alert windows, including suppressing low-traffic overnight alerts.
• Operate and maintain Kubernetes and EKS infrastructure in production.
• Support infrastructure-as-code work using Terraform.
• Contribute to disaster recovery planning and implementation.
• Partner with product engineering teams to help them use AWS Bedrock and AWS Marketplace cost-effectively for AI workloads.
• Progress from completing defined tickets to independently scoping and closing work.

Requirements

• Hands-on day-to-day Kubernetes operations experience, with EKS experience preferred.
• Working knowledge of AWS, including IAM setup; AWS certifications are a plus.
• Experience with Terraform or other infrastructure-as-code tooling.
• Experience operating production systems rather than architecting them from scratch.
• Exposure to or familiarity with Python.
• Familiarity with SRE fundamentals such as error budgets and SLIs/SLOs, or willingness to learn them.
• Exposure to FinOps or cloud cost-management concepts.
• Ability to learn new tools and processes independently.
• Openness to mentorship and a collaborative, dialogue-driven learning style.

Benefits

• Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life, and disability benefits.
• 401(k) plan, nine observed holidays, and flexible paid time off.
• Subsidized ClassPass membership and coverage for life coaching and therapy sessions.
• Free Thrive Market membership with an exclusive employee discount.
• Employees must be based in the United States.
• The role requires travel to the Los Angeles headquarters twice yearly for company summits, once in summer and once in winter.
• Employees may work in the Thrive Market office in Playa Vista.

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