Sr. SRE Engineer - Local to NJ

Job Title: Sr. SRE Engineer

Location: Jersey City, NJ – 3 Days onsite role

Long Term Project

 Job Summary: We are looking for an experienced Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) with strong exposure to production engineering and monitoring/observability tools such as Splunk, Prometheus, and Grafana. The candidate will be responsible for ensuring the reliability, availability, performance, and operational stability of production applications and infrastructure.

Key Responsibilities:

• Monitor and maintain production systems to ensure high availability and reliability.
• Build and manage monitoring, alerting, and observability solutions using Splunk, Prometheus, and Grafana.
• Perform production troubleshooting, incident analysis, and root cause analysis (RCA).
• Identify recurring production issues and implement automation or permanent fixes.
• Define and monitor key application and infrastructure metrics, alerts, dashboards, and health checks.
• Work closely with development, infrastructure, DevOps, and operations teams during production incidents.
• Support incident management and participate in production/on-call support as required.
• Improve system reliability through automation, proactive monitoring, capacity planning, and performance optimization.
• Contribute to SRE practices around SLIs, SLOs, alerting, incident response, and post-incident reviews.

Required Skills:

• Solid experience in Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) / Production Engineering / Production Support.
• Hands-on experience with Splunk for log monitoring, troubleshooting, and analysis.
• Experience with Prometheus and Grafana for metrics monitoring, dashboarding, and alerting.
• Good understanding of Linux/Unix environments and production troubleshooting.
• Experience with scripting/automation using Python, Shell/Bash, or similar technologies.
• Understanding of application performance, infrastructure monitoring, and distributed production environments.
• Knowledge of CI/CD, DevOps practices, and cloud environments is desirable.
• Strong troubleshooting, analytical, and incident-management skills.