Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Outstanding long-term contract opportunity! A well-known Financial Services Company is looking for a Site Reliability Engineer in Charlotte NC (Hybrid).

Work with the brightest minds at one of the largest financial institutions in the world. This is a long-term contract opportunity that includes a competitive benefit package! Our client has been around for over 150 years and is continuously innovating in today's digital age. If you want to work for a company that is not only a household name, but also truly cares about satisfying customers' financial needs and helping people succeed financially, apply today.

Contract Duration: starting at 6+ Months up to 24 months
Required Skills & Experience
The role is for a Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE), to drive reliability, automation, observability, and performance for mission critical applications and platforms. This role blends software engineering with operational expertise to deliver stable, scalable, and resilient services, while reducing toil and shifting operations left.
Required Skills.

• 2+ years leading, operating and performing SRE team
• 2+ years using Autosys and Oracle
• 2+ years supporting applications on Kubernetes / OpenShift and Google Cloud Platform
• Linux + Oracle
• Python scripting/automation
• Cloud exposure (Google Cloud Platform mentioned)
• Strong understanding of observability tools AppDynamics, ThousandEyes, and Instana, Splunk (Grafana/Dynatrace acceptable)
• proven experience building SRE capabilities, such as:
  • Observability/monitoring strategy
  • Automation to reduce incidents/toil
  • Preventing issues before outages occur
• Leadership + stakeholder influence is critical
  • Partner with product owners/app managers
  • Drive operational change, not just resolve tickets
• Core focus: Monitoring & observability maturity

What You Will Be Doing

• Work with stakeholders to define Service Level Objectives (SLO)s, Service Level Indicators (SLI)s, and error budget.
• Build and enhance observability, telemetry, and monitoring tools.
• Identify and implement automation opportunities and reduce toil.
• Lead and complete production readiness activities (NFRs, Permit to Operate).
• Provide application support.