Site Reliability Engineer

  • Houston, TX
  • Posted 23 hours ago | Updated 11 hours ago

Overview

On Site
Full Time

Skills

Communication
Documentation
Workflow
Root Cause Analysis
Stacks Blockchain
Investments
Optimization
Testing
Information Technology
Computer Science
Orchestration
Scripting
Grafana
Cloud Computing
Amazon Web Services
Google Cloud Platform
Google Cloud
PostgreSQL
Performance Tuning
Query Optimization
Incident Management
Operational Excellence
Continuous Delivery
Continuous Integration
Kubernetes
Docker
Terraform
Akka
.NET
Version Control
GitHub
GitLab
Microsoft Azure
DevOps
C#
Python
Bash
Windows PowerShell

Job Details

Job Description

As a Site Reliability Engineer, you will be responsible for: Operational Excellence & Incident Management

- Maintain and monitor production systems for availability, latency, and performance.

- Lead incident response efforts, including communication, resolution, and postmortem documentation.

- Design and implement health checks, alerting systems, and automated remediation workflows.

- Drive root cause analysis and implement permanent resolutions for recurring issues.

Observability & Insights

- Set up and maintain full observability stacks (logging, metrics, tracing) using tools like Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, OpenTelemetry, or ELK.

- Analyze telemetry and logs to identify trends, anomalies, and opportunities for improvement.

- Conduct post-incident reviews and use insights to inform future engineering investments.

Performance & Systems Optimization

- Tune and optimize distributed systems, including AKKA.NET actors, for performance and resource efficiency.

- Work with developers to evolve architecture and improve system throughput, latency, and stability.

- Optimize PostgreSQL performance, queries, and maintenance strategies.

CI/CD & Automation

- Design and maintain modern CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, Azure Pipelines, or GitLab CI.

- Automate deployment, testing, and rollback processes to reduce friction and increase deployment frequency.

- Standardize infrastructure as code practices across environments.

Education and Experience

- 5+ years of experience in SRE, DevOps, or Infrastructure Engineering roles.

- Bachelor's degree in information technology, Computer Science, or a related

- Expertise in Kubernetes and container orchestration at scale.

- Strong experience with AKKA.NET or similar actor-based frameworks.

- Proficiency with scripting and automation (Bash, PowerShell, Python).

- Experience with observability tools (Phobos,Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, ELK).

- Hands-on experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform).

- Strong PostgreSQL knowledge-performance tuning, query optimization, maintenance.

- Proven ability to lead incident management and drive postmortem processes.

- A builder's mindset with high standards for operational excellence and technical ownership.

Preferred Tools & Ecosystem Experience

- CI/CD: GitHub Actions, Azure Pipelines, GitLab CI

- Infrastructure: Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform

- Monitoring: Phobos (AKKA.NET), Datadog, Prometheus

- Source Control: GitHub, GitLab, Azure DevOps

- Programming: C#, Python, Bash, PowerShell
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