Site Reliability Engineer

Software Guidance & Assistance, Inc. (SGA) is searching for a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) for a Direct Placement assignment with one of our premier financial services clients in mid-town New York City. Hybrid schedule, 2-3 days onsite/week.

The firm is seeking a hands-on and analytical Site Reliability Engineer to design, build, and maintain reliable, secure, and scalable cloud infrastructure and observability systems. The ideal candidate will have deep experience in AWS, Python, CI/CD automation, and monitoring frameworks, supporting mission-critical applications in a modern cloud ecosystem. This role plays a key part in enhancing system reliability, performance, and resilience across enterprise platforms.

Responsibilities

• Architect, deploy, and maintain AWS and Azure infrastructure focused on reliability, scalability, and cost efficiency.
• Design and manage monitoring, logging, and alerting systems to ensure high availability and rapid incident response.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines (GitLab, Jenkins) for continuous software delivery and automation.
• Implement and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using CDK, Terraform, or CloudFormation.
• Collaborate with development teams to improve deployment processes and production reliability.
• Contribute to application codebase for resiliency, performance tuning, and observability best practices.
• Maintain detailed documentation for architectures, design patterns, and configurations.
• Partner with Dev, QA, and AppSecOps teams to promote automation, consistency, and improved security posture.
• Perform incident triage, root cause analysis, and develop permanent solutions to production issues.
• Continuously improve standards, tools, and processes for platform reliability and efficiency.

Work Allocation (Approximate)

• 60 % - Hands-on development, automation, and operations
• 25 % - Technical design, architecture, and mentoring
• 15 % - Collaboration, requirements gathering, and stakeholder engagement

Required Skills

• 8+ years of hands-on experience in Site Reliability, DevOps, or Platform Engineering roles.
• Strong experience with AWS Cloud Services (ECS, EC2, Lambda, IAM, CloudWatch, etc.).
• Proficiency in Python for automation, scripting, and infrastructure integration.
• Solid understanding of CI/CD pipelines using GitLab or Jenkins.
• Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code (CDK, Terraform, or CloudFormation).
• Expertise in monitoring and observability tools (Datadog, Dynatrace, ELK).
• Working knowledge of microservices, serverless architectures, and containerization (Docker, ECS, Kubernetes).
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-resolution skills.
• Excellent communication and collaboration abilities in cross-functional teams.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field (or equivalent experience).

Preferred Skills

• Experience in financial services, asset management, or capital markets environments.
• Familiarity with Python/Django and data libraries (Pandas, NumPy, SQL).
• Knowledge of security, compliance, and cost optimization best practices.
• Proven ability to identify and implement process and automation improvements.

Initial Success Criteria (First 6 Months)
The successful candidate will demonstrate measurable impact by:

• Implementing or optimizing monitoring and alerting systems to improve visibility and response time.
• Playing a key role in modernizing CI/CD pipelines to enhance automation and release consistency.
• Contributing hands-on code and tooling improvements that increase platform reliability and performance.
• Establishing incident response processes and documentation for key production systems.
• Building strong working relationships across engineering, QA, and AppSecOps teams to promote shared reliability ownership

SGA is a technology and resource solutions provider driven to stand out. We are a women-owned business. Our mission: to solve big IT problems with a more personal, boutique approach. Each year, we match consultants like you to more than 1,000 engagements. When we say let's work better together, we mean it. You'll join a diverse team built on these core values: customer service, employee development, and quality and integrity in everything we do. Be yourself, love what you do and find your passion at work. Please find us at .

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