Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Events

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About Our clientA leading provider of innovative software and services to K-12 schools and educational institutions worldwide. Their mission is to empower schools to transform education through technology. They believe in the power of education to shape the future, and are committed to helping schools prepare students for success and make a positive impact on the world.

Position OverviewOur client's Events platform powers event marketing, ticket sales, ticket management, and on-site ticket distribution and scanning for organizers running live events. It's a high-throughput, event-driven application on AWS, and it needs a Senior SRE to keep it reliable, well-instrumented, and continuously improving in place.

You will operate and strengthen the platform's AWS infrastructure, CI/CD, and observability, working closely with the engineers who build and evolve the application so the system holds up under real event-day load — on-sales, high-traffic scans, and everything in between.

Key Responsibilities

• Operate and maintain the Events platform's AWS infrastructure — compute, data stores, CDN, and the event bus connecting bookings, tickets, users, and scanning

• Build and extend observability — dashboards, tracing, and alerting that catches problems before customers do, especially around live on-sales and event days

• Maintain and improve CI/CD pipelines for the booking, box office, and ticket-scanning applications, working toward deployments that are repeatable, auditable, and low-risk

• Partner with the engineers building and evolving the Events platform, understanding the event-driven architecture well enough to contribute code, diagnose production issues, and suggest infrastructure improvements

• Participate in on-call and incident response for the platform, with particular attention to the operational patterns unique to ticket scanning at scale

• Apply IaC discipline to infrastructure changes, avoiding manual, untracked changes to production

• Use AI-assisted development tools (Claude Code or comparable) as part of your workflow to navigate and document a complex codebase and infrastructure estate

Required Qualifications

• ~6 years of experience as an SRE, DevOps engineer, or backend/infrastructure engineer supporting production systems

• Strong, hands-on AWS experience — comfortable operating services like ECS, Lambda, Aurora/RDS, CloudFront, and IAM in a real production environment

• Solid understanding of event-driven architecture — message/event buses (EventBridge, SQS/SNS, Kafka, or comparable), asynchronous workflows, and the failure modes specific to distributed, event-driven systems

• Proficient as a software engineer, not just an operator — comfortable reading and writing code (Node.js, TypeScript, Python, C#/.NET, or similar) to fix issues, write tooling, and contribute directly to the applications you support

• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation

• Working knowledge of observability practices — monitoring, alerting, and using tracing/logging tools (CloudWatch, X-Ray, Datadog, or similar) to diagnose production issu...