Senior Site Reliability Engineer
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Job Location:
Austin, TX - USA
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
2 hours ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
Senior Site Reliability Engineer
Austin TX Hybrid Only Locals
One Year Contract
In person Interviews
Position will be 3 days remote with 2 days (Mondays and Thursdays) required to be onsite at the location listed above. Program will only accept LOCAL ONLY candidates for this position.
8 or more years of experience relies on experience and judgment to plan and accomplish goals independently performs a variety of complicated tasks a wide degree of creativity and latitude is expected.
Understands business objectives and problems identifies alternative solutions performs studies and cost/benefit analysis of alternatives. Analyzes user requirements procedures and problems to automate processing or to improve existing computer system: Confers with personnel of organizational units involved to analyze current operational procedures identify problems and learn specific input and output requirements such as forms of data input how data is to be; summarized and formats for reports. Writes detailed description of user needs program functions and steps required to develop or modify computer program. Reviews computer system capabilities specifications and scheduling limitations to determine if requested program or program change is possible within existing system.
Site Reliability Engineer will be responsible for ensuring the reliability availability performance and scalability of production systems by applying software engineering practices to infrastructure and operations. Partners with development teams to build resilient observable and automated platforms that meet defined service level objectives (SLOs).
II. CANDIDATE SKILLS AND QUALIFICATIONS
| Minimum Requirements: | ||
| Years | Required/Preferred | Experience |
| 8 | Required | experience in systems engineering DevOps or site reliability engineering roles |
| 8 | Required | Strong experience with Linux/Unix systems and system internals |
| 8 | Required | Proficiency in one or more programming/scripting languages (Python Go Java Bash) |
| 8 | Required | Experience designing and operating highly available distributed systems |
| 8 | Required | Strong knowledge of cloud platforms (AWS or GCP) and cloud-native services |
| 8 | Required | Experience with containerization and orchestration (Docker Kubernetes) |
| 8 | Required | Strong understanding of monitoring alerting and logging concepts |
| 8 | Required | Experience defining and managing SLIs SLOs and error budgets |
| 8 | Required | Familiarity with incident management root cause analysis (RCA) and postmortems |
| 8 | Required | Experience integrating security and compliance into operational workflows |
| 4 | Preferred | Familiarity with observability tools (Prometheus Grafana Application Insights Datadog Splunk) |
| 4 | Preferred | Experience operating 24x7 production environments with on-call rotations |
| 4 | Preferred | Experience with chaos engineering and resiliency testing |
| 4 | Preferred | Experience with feature flags canary deployments and progressive delivery |
| 4 | Preferred | Strong documentation skills for runbooks dashboards and operational standards |
