Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) | Onsite

Photon · United States · $52,000 (stated in the posting)

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Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) 

Role Overview 

We are looking for an experienced Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) responsible for improving the reliability, resiliency, observability, and operational stability of large-scale application and platform environments. The role will focus on proactive monitoring, incident response, troubleshooting, and continuous improvement of production reliability. 

Key Responsibilities 

  • Drive reliability, availability, and resiliency across application and platform environments. 
  • Implement and improve monitoring, alerting, dashboards, and observability using Datadog and Grafana. 
  • Monitor production environments and proactively identify reliability and performance issues. 
  • Lead and participate in incident response, troubleshooting, and production issue resolution. 
  • Perform root-cause analysis for incidents and recurring production issues. 
  • Identify opportunities to reduce operational issues through automation and engineering improvements. 
  • Work closely with application, infrastructure, and platform teams to improve system reliability. 
  • Support operational readiness and production stability for application releases and platform changes. 
  • Analyze application and infrastructure behavior to identify performance, capacity, and reliability risks. 
  • Improve troubleshooting and debugging practices across production environments. 
  • Support continuous improvement of operational processes based on incidents and production observations. 
  • Follow secure engineering and operational practices. 
  • Use Jira and GitHub as part of the engineering and delivery lifecycle. 

Required Experience & Skills 

  • 8+ years of relevant experience in Site Reliability Engineering, production engineering, DevOps, cloud operations, or related engineering roles. 
  • Strong experience with production reliability, resiliency, and operational support. 
  • Hands-on experience with Datadog and Grafana for monitoring and observability. 
  • Strong experience with incident response, troubleshooting, and root-cause analysis. 
  • Strong debugging and problem-solving skills across complex application and infrastructure environments. 
  • Experience working with cloud-based platforms; GCP experience is preferred. 
  • Familiarity with infrastructure automation and Infrastructure-as-Code concepts. 
  • Familiarity with Jira and GitHub. 
  • Familiarity with unit testing and API testing. 
  • Understanding of secure coding and operational security practices. 
  • Ability to work closely with development, infrastructure, and platform engineering teams. 

 

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