Site Reliability Engineer

Overview

On Site
Depends on Experience
Accepts corp to corp applications
Contract - W2
Contract - 6 Month(s)

Skills

Agile
Ansible
Apache Kafka
Auditing
Collaboration

Job Details

We are looking for Site Reliability Engineer for our client in Toronto, ON
Job Title: Site Reliability Engineer
Job Location: Toronto, ON
Job Type: Contract
Job Description:

Responsibilities:

  • Track, audit, monitor, and implement technical work streams.
  • Act as portfolio SME, documenting common components, core functionalities, and infrastructure of supported applications.
  • Serve as an escalation point in the on-call rotation, supporting maintenance, scheduled work, and release deployments.
  • Lead incident management and problem management activities, owning RCA action items.
  • Drive continuous improvement in productivity, monitoring, tooling, and technical standards.
  • Manage technology currency (server patching, certificate renewals, compliance) with a focus on automation opportunities.
  • Apply industry-leading technical solutions to meet organizational needs.
  • Collaborate across units, departments, and enterprise-wide teams to deliver better solutions.
Engineering:
  • Develop SRE solutions such as monitoring, alerting, machine learning anomaly detection, self-healing, and reliability testing.
  • Apply design thinking and an agile mindset in collaboration with SREs, Scrum Masters, and Incident Leads.
  • Contribute to and leverage best practices in SRE.
  • Build repeatable automation solutions to simplify manual tasks.
  • Support automation adoption for applications in scope.
Production Support:
  • Perform production support, including off-hours support and rotational on-call responsibilities.
  • Assist in incident and problem management for applications in scope.
  • Continuously evaluate incidents to identify improvements and prevent recurrence.
  • Maintain technology currency with focus on automation.
  • Ensure availability and uptime of applications in scope per service level objectives.
  • Ensure compliance of systems and applications, maintaining segregation of duties.
Technical Consultation:
  • Support initiatives outside of application or squad-level scope.
  • Provide consultation on product builds to other teams within the enterprise.
Innovation and Learning:
  • Stay updated on technology changes and continuously learn through training and self-study.
  • Provide demos of new technology findings to the team.
Must Have:
  • Bachelor s degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering, Physics, or related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • 4 5 years of experience in SRE or related field.
  • Advanced knowledge of SRE practices and technologies.

  • Strong hands-on experience with:

    Python, YAML, Shell scripting.
  • Azure, Linux.
  • Dynatrace, Prometheus, PagerDuty, Moog, Splunk, Elastic, Azure Monitor.
  • Chaos Engineering.
  • MQ, Kafka.
  • Ansible, Azure Automation, Catchpoint.
  • Experience performing production support including off-hours support.
Good to Have:
  • Dynatrace Less than 1 year.
  • Kafka Less than 1 year.
  • Network programming (Perl, Python, Java, etc.) Less than 1 year.
  • Microsoft Azure Less than 1 year.
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