Senior Site Reliability Engineer

At the end of this thrilling journey, you'll become a proud member of Hack The Box, with the ultimate mission to help redefine cybersecurity expertise. Get ready for an exciting adventure into the world of cybersecurity! 🚀🔒💻

As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer at Hack The Box, your paramount mission is to lead the seamless migration to AWS, strategically positioning our infrastructure to scale effectively with the company. Over the next 6 months, you will be instrumental in enhancing our capabilities for expansion, setting the stage for the addition of new systems such as VMs, services, and databases. Additionally, your focus will shift towards establishing key performance indicators, service level objectives, and incident response metrics to drive a culture of reliability and continuous improvement.

You’ll join a team of 4 (SRE Lead, Sr SRE, 2 DevOps), while collaborating closely with engineers, data scientists, and security experts. Finally, you will report directly to the SRE Lead and will have open communications with infrastructure department management and other high-caliber technical people across the organization.

• Infrastructure as Code (Terraform): Automate the provisioning of AWS resources.
• Containerization and Orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes): Ensure seamless deployment and scaling of applications.
• Monitoring and Logging (Prometheus, Grafana, Loki): Expand monitoring capabilities for new systems.
• Automation and Scripting (Go, Python, Bash): Scripting for efficient and automated processes.
• Cloud Platforms (AWS): Execute the migration plan with a focus on AWS.

• Lead AWS Migration for Scalability: Spearhead the migration from the current cloud provider towards AWS, strategically positioning our infrastructure for scalable growth across regions.
• Expand Monitoring Stack: Integrate new systems into the Monitoring Stack, enhancing visibility and alerting capabilities for a globally distributed architecture.
• Architectural Design for Reliability: Contribute to the design and implementation of reliable AWS infrastructure, focusing on fault tolerance and high availability.
• Establish Metrics Framework: Implement and manage Service Level Agreements (SLAs), Service Level Objectives (SLOs), and Service Level Indicators (SLIs) to measure and improve system reliability.
• Incident Response Enhancement: Develop and enhance incident response processes, leveraging metrics to continually improve response times and effectiveness.
• Mentorship: Mentor and guide junior SREs in adapting to the AWS environment and implementing reliability best practices.
• Collaborative Planning: Work closely with cross-functional teams to plan and implement new systems effectively, ensuring alignment with reliability goals.
• Team Expansion: Play a key role in the team's expansion, contributing to the hiring and onboarding of new members.
• Best Practices Advocacy: Champion best practices in AWS architecture and SRE methodologies, fostering a culture of reliability and continuous improvement.

• Hands-on Experience: Minimum 3 years of hands-on experience in site reliability engineering or a related field.
• Automation Skills: Proficient in scripting and automation using languages such as Go, Python or Bash.
• Cloud Expertise: In-depth knowledge of cloud platforms, particularly AWS.

• Containerization: Experience with containerization technologies (Docker) and orchestration (Kubernetes).

• Monitoring Mastery: Strong expertise in implementing and managing monitoring and logging solutions.
• Metrics Framework: Proven experience establishing and managing SLAs, SLOs, and SLIs.
• Problem Solving: Proven ability to troubleshoot complex system issues and implement effective solutions.
• Collaborative Mindset: Excellent collaboration and communication skills, with a strong ability to work cross-functionally and mentor junior team members.

• Private health care
• Paid paternity leave 25 annual leave days
• Free lunch & snacks at the office
• Dedicated budget for training and professional development, participation in conferences
• Full access to the Hack The Box lab offerings; so you can learn how to hack 😉
• State-of-the-art equipment (mac, iPhone, and mobile plan)
• Flexible WFH (Hybrid Model) - Fully Remote is also an option

• Level 1: Like in any game, you start as a Noob. Level one’s objective: submit your application. After applying, you unlock the Script Kiddie rank!

• Level 2: Now you'll meet the Talent Acquisition team. Level’s objective: highlight your past achievements, ambitions, and values.

• Level 3: As a Hacker at level 3, you’ll unlock the “boss level”, which involves meeting the hiring manager. Level’s objective: connect with the hiring manager and share with them your achievements.

• Level 4: Now you’re a Pro Hacker! Level’s objective: complete an assignment that aligns with day-to-day job-related tasks and responsibilities.

• Level 5: Congratulations, you're now an Elite Hacker! Not many reach this level 💪. Level’s objective: have a constructive, final conversation with senior leadership to explore the role and your future at HTB.

• Level 6: You've achieved the Guru rank and officially received an offer from HTB! To complete the last level and the Quest, all you need to do is accept the offer.

• QUEST COMPLETE. Congratulations, you’re officially one of us 🥳🎉🎇Your next quest: complete the onboarding.

At Hack The Box, we are on a quest to find the most exceptional and enthusiastic talent to join our team. Whether or not you consider yourself a gamer, we value what makes you unique and want to know more about you. This job post provides just a glimpse of the incredible gamified experience our business and consumer customers enjoy through our platforms. So, if you're ready to embark on a journey of disruption, growth, and adventure, we can't wait to meet you!

Hack The Box is a leading gamified cybersecurity upskilling, certification, and talent assessment platform enabling individuals, businesses, government institutions, and universities to sharpen their offensive and defensive security expertise.

Launched in 2017, Hack The Box brings together the largest global cybersecurity community of more than 2m platform members and is on a mission to create and connect cyber-ready humans and organizations through highly engaging hacking experiences that cultivate out-of-the-box thinking.

Offering a fully guided and exploratory skills development environment, Hack The Box is the ideal solution for cybersecurity professionals and organizations to continuously enhance their cyber-attack readiness by improving their red, blue, and purple team capabilities.

Rapidly growing its international footprint and reach, Hack The Box is headquartered in the UK, with additional offices in Greece and the US.

🚨 Exciting News:

• We are super proud to share that HTB’s all three entities across the UK, US, and Greece have been Certified as a Great Place to Work (Oct 2023-Oct 2024). 
• Furthermore, the HTB's Greek entity has been listed by the Great Place to Work Insitute as the#4 Best Workplace in Greece and #7 in Europe for 2023, among more than 3,300 companies💪 
• Get more insights about our HTB culture and employee experience by visiting our career site and Glassdoor.