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Site Reliability Engineer II

KFC
2 hours ago
Full-time
On-site
Louisville, Jefferson, Vietnam
Developer

Description

  • 5+ years of experience in site reliability engineering, DevOps, infrastructure, or production operations roles
  • Hands-on credibility across incident response, observability, and automation, with the technical depth to guide Level 6-7 engineers
  • Experience operating in shift-based, on-call, or follow-the-sun coverage models
  • Working knowledge of at least one major cloud provider (AWS preferred) and modern observability tooling (e.g., Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana)
  • Proficiency in at least one scripting or programming language sufficient to review and guide automation work
  • Understanding of SLI/SLO frameworks and reliability engineering fundamentals
  • Strong written and verbal English communication skills for cross-region collaboration with US and India teams

Responsibilities

  • Own the Vietnam shift within GRE’s global follow-the-sun coverage model, including schedule design, coverage planning, and holiday/leave management
  • Ensure clean, structured handoffs to and from US and India teams, with clear ownership transfer on open incidents and in-flight work
  • Maintain shift readiness: runbooks current, alerts actionable, escalation paths clear
  • Serve as escalation point for the Vietnam shift during complex or high-severity incidents

Qualifications

  • Kubernetes, container orchestration, and infrastructure as code experience (e.g., Terraform)
  • Familiarity with AI-assisted operations tooling and automation-first reliability approaches, including auto-healing and auto-remediation patterns
  • Exposure to platform engineering and internal developer platform concepts: self-service tooling, developer portals (e.g., Port, Backstage), GitOps
  • Experience in multi-region or globally distributed team models
  • Relevant certifications (AWS, CKA, or similar)