Job#: 3034256 Job Description: Senior SRE Developer / Application Developer
Location: Lake Mary, Florida or Pittsburgh, PA
Remote flexibility for duration of the contract- Candidates will be required to sit onsite 4x per week in either Lake Mary, FL or Pittsburgh, PA upon conversion.
Employment Type: Contract-to-Hire
Pay Range: $85-90/hr.
Role Overview
This is a contract-to-hire opportunity for a senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) / Application Developer who brings a software engineering approach to reliability and production operations. The role focuses on applying strong software engineering principles to solve operational problems, with an emphasis on building automation to reduce manual work, ensuring faster recovery from incidents, and implementing permanent fixes. The ideal candidate will help improve system resilience and enable systems to run themselves across a complex application environment.
Key Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain automation to improve system reliability, reduce manual operational work, and standardize support processes.
- Develop backend services, tooling, and reliability solutions primarily using Python and Go.
- Partner with engineering and cross-functional stakeholders to identify reliability gaps and translate operational pain points into scalable engineering solutions.
- Enhance observability by improving monitoring, alerting, logging, and operational readiness practices.
- Create self-healing and automated remediation capabilities that reduce repeat incidents and accelerate recovery.
- Support and evolve SRE practices, including the implementation of service level objectives (SLOs), error budgets, and performance metrics.
- Operate effectively within a large enterprise environment with established governance, change management, and release processes.
Required Qualifications
- A developer-first SRE mindset, with the ability to design and build durable software solutions for operational problems.
- Strong foundation in software engineering fundamentals, including data structures, debugging, code quality, testing, and system design.
- Proficiency in Python and/or Go for backend development, tooling, or platform engineering.
- Demonstrated experience in automation and reliability engineering, focused on eliminating toil, building self-healing solutions, and preventing incident recurrence.
- Solid understanding of containerization and orchestration concepts (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes) and cloud infrastructure.
- Familiarity with using monitoring, logging, and alerting tools to identify issues, prioritize improvements, and validate results.
- Strong communication, collaboration, and stakeholder management skills suitable for a senior individual contributor role.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with Java development in large application ecosystems.
- Knowledge of SRE practices such as service level objectives (SLOs) and error budgets.
- Familiarity with enterprise delivery and operational tools such as GitLab, Jira, and ServiceNow.
- Experience supporting CI/CD, deployment automation, and hybrid infrastructure environments.
- Comfort operating within the compliance and governance processes of a large enterprise.
- Exposure to AI-assisted development tools and the ability to validate outputs in engineering workflows.
Compensation
Pay Rate: $85.00/hr - $90.00/hr
We are an equal opportunity employer and welcome applications from all qualified candidates regardless of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status
Everforth Apex is a world-class IT services company that serves thousands of clients across the globe. When you join Everforth Apex, you become part of a team that values innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning. We offer quality career resources, training, certifications, development opportunities, and a comprehensive benefits package. Our commitment to excellence is reflected in many awards, including ClearlyRated's Best of Staffing in Talent Satisfaction in the United States and Great Place to Work in the United Kingdom and Mexico. Everforth Apex uses a virtual recruiter as part of the application process. Click for more details.
Everforth Apex Benefits Overview: Everforth Apex offers a range of supplemental benefits, including medical, dental, vision, life, disability, and other insurance plans that offer an optional layer of financial protection. We offer an ESPP (employee stock purchase program) and a 401K program which allows you to contribute typically within 30 days of starting, with a company match after 12 months of tenure. Everforth Apex also offers a HSA (Health Savings Account on the HDHP plan), a SupportLinc Employee Assistance Program (EAP) with up to 8 free counseling sessions, a corporate discount savings program and other discounts. In terms of professional development, Everforth Apex hosts an on-demand training program, provides access to certification prep and a library of technical and leadership courses/books/seminars once you have 6+ months of tenure, and certification discounts and other perks to associations that include CompTIA and IIBA. Everforth Apex has a dedicated customer service team for our Consultants that can address questions around benefits and other resources, as well as a certified Career Coach. You can access a full list of our benefits, programs, support teams and resources within our 'Welcome Packet' as well, which an Everforth Apex team member can provide.
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