# Principal Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

> Symmetrio · United States (Remote) · Full-time · Posted 2026-06-11

**Workplace:** remote

## Description

Symmetrio is recruiting a Principal Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) for our customer, a rapidly growing healthcare technology organization focused on advanced healthcare technology solutions.

This individual will play a critical role in ensuring the reliability, scalability, security, and performance of a mission-critical SaaS platform supporting healthcare providers across the United States. The ideal candidate will possess a unique blend of cloud infrastructure expertise, application troubleshooting experience, production operations leadership, and customer-facing technical problem-solving skills.

The ideal candidate will be equally comfortable investigating application-level issues, troubleshooting AWS networking and infrastructure, leading production incident response efforts, and collaborating with development teams to improve operational excellence.

### Responsibilities

-   Serve as the primary technical owner for production reliability across U.S. customer environments.
-   Investigate and resolve complex issues spanning web applications, APIs, backend services, data pipelines, cloud infrastructure, and customer integrations.
-   Lead production incident response efforts, coordinating cross-functional teams to restore service and minimize customer impact.
-   Perform root cause analysis and drive corrective actions that improve long-term system stability and resilience.
-   Partner with software engineering and platform teams to identify recurring reliability risks and implement sustainable solutions.
-   Design, configure, and validate secure customer connectivity solutions including Site-to-Site VPNs, Transit Gateway integrations, routing configurations, and secure network paths.
-   Support customer onboarding initiatives by troubleshooting connectivity challenges and ensuring consistent implementation processes.
-   Enhance platform observability through improvements in monitoring, logging, alerting, tracing, and operational dashboards.
-   Contribute to CI/CD, infrastructure automation, and deployment processes that improve release safety and operational consistency.
-   Develop operational tooling that supports incident response, troubleshooting, onboarding, and system monitoring activities.
-   Collaborate with engineering leadership to improve cloud architecture, scalability, security, and operational readiness.
-   Partner with customer-facing teams to communicate technical issues, remediation plans, and reliability improvements in a clear and effective manner.
-   Support compliance, security, and risk management initiatives within highly regulated healthcare environments.

## Requirements

-   6+ years of hands-on experience supporting and managing AWS-based production environments.
-   4+ years of experience supporting web applications and backend services (Python/Django experience strongly preferred).
-   Experience with AWS networking technologies including VPCs, Site-to-Site VPNs, Transit Gateways, routing, NAT gateways, and security groups.
-   Strong experience with Terraform and infrastructure-as-code deployment practices.
-   Experience with containerized environments including ECS, Fargate, Kubernetes, or similar technologies.
-   Experience building and supporting CI/CD pipelines and release automation processes.
-   Familiarity with monitoring and observability platforms such as Datadog, CloudWatch, Sentry, Grafana, or similar tools.
-   Experience leading production incidents, outage management, and root cause analysis initiatives.
-   Exposure to Windows Server environments, Active Directory, Kerberos, and enterprise infrastructure concepts is preferred.
-   Healthcare technology, healthcare SaaS, clinical software, or other regulated industry experience is highly preferred.
-   Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related technical field preferred.

## Benefits

-   Health Care Plan (Medical, Dental & Vision)
-   Retirement Plan (401k, IRA)
-   Paid Time Off (Vacation, Sick & Public Holidays)

## Apply

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