Senior Cloud Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

We are looking for Senior Cloud Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) for our client in Dallas, TX

Job Title: Senior Cloud Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

Job Location: Dallas, TX

Job Type: Contract

Job Overview:

Requirement/Must Have:

• Bachelor s degree in computer science, Information Systems, or equivalent background or equivalent experience.
• 7+ years of extensive experience in software development with focus on reliability and platform engineering.
• 5+ years of advanced Python development skills with proven experience building enterprise-grade, highly available tools, APIs, and utilities.
• 3+ years of hands-on experience developing solutions in AWS environments with deep understanding of core services (EC2, VPC, S3, Lambda, IAM, CloudFormation, EventBridge, Step Functions etc.) and resource cost optimization.
• 3+ years of experience applying SRE principles including observability, toil automation, SLIs/SLOs and reliability engineering.
• Expert-level proficiency with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform, including module development and state management.
• Strong experience with CI/CD pipelines, automated testing frameworks, and DevOps practices.
• Experience with observability tools and practices including Grafana, AWS CloudWatch, AWS Canary.
• Experience defining, implementing, and managing SLOs/SLIs and error budgets; familiarity with conducting RCAs and producing postmortem documentation.
• Working experience in Agile and Scaled Agile environments and familiarity with ITSM processes (incident, change, and problem management), resilience testing and chaos engineering practices.
• Experience with GoLang or additional programming languages is a plus.

Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and maintain reliability solutions and SRE utilities to reduce toil, improve cloud platform reliability, and industrialize SRE practices across the system.
• Build and optimize Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform to manage AWS resources related to SRE solutions, incorporating cost-efficient design principles.
• Develop CI/CD pipelines and automated testing to ensure code quality, reliability, and rapid delivery of the solutions.
• Define SRE standards, best practices, and guidelines for adoption across teams; establish SRE metrics like SLI, SLOs, etc.
• Apply software engineering best practices including version control, code reviews, test-driven development, and documentation to all development.
• Participate in incident management and on-call rotation, providing technical support for SRE tools, troubleshooting production issues, and collaborating with teams to reduce incident recurrence through proactive detection and pattern analysis.
• Stay current with emerging AWS services, SRE methodologies, and cloud-native development technologies, and drive adoption of innovative solutions.
• Collaborate within Agile and Scaled Agile frameworks with cross-functional teams to deliver integrated cloud automation solutions.
• Produce clear, blameless postmortems with actionable items and documented failure scenarios.