Job Title: Senior Site Reliability Engineer
Location-Type: Remote
Start Date: ASAP
Duration: 4-6 Month Contract to Hire
Compensation Range: $75-95/hr on W2 ONLY!
Benefits: Eligible for Health, Dental, Vision, and 401K
Visa Sponsorship: Not eligible for visa sponsorship
Job Description:
This role serves as a hands-on technical leader responsible for designing, implementing, and advancing reliability across complex, distributed systems in a highly regulated financial services environment.
Job Summary
โขDesign and implement reliability strategies across distributed, business-critical systems using automation, observability, and architectural guidance.
โขLead root cause analysis investigations on incidents and produce clear documentation of findings and remediation steps.
โขDevelop and maintain CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation to support reliable, measurable software delivery.
โขAdvance observability practices across production workloads, including metrics, logging, and distributed tracing.
โขInfluence system design upstream by operating with significant autonomy and engaging stakeholders on reliability outcomes.
โขContribute to scripting and automation using Java, Python, or comparable languages to reduce toil and improve system reliability.
โขSupport containerized and serverless workloads across a large-scale AWS environment spanning approximately 1,200 hosts.
Minimum Requirements:
โขBachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
โข6-10 years of experience in SRE, software engineering, platform engineering, or DevOps roles.
- Experience with Dynatrace
โขDeep hands-on experience with AWS across multiple architecture patterns, including containerized applications, EC2, and serverless.
โขStrong programming skills with professional experience in Java and/or Python for scripting and automation.
โขProven experience with observability tooling covering metrics, logs, and tracing.
โขSolid experience with CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation, and root cause analysis investigation and documentation.
โขDemonstrated ability to operate effectively in complex, regulated enterprise environments.
Preferred Qualifications:
โขExperience with Infrastructure as Code, particularly CloudFormation.
โขFamiliarity with application frameworks such as Spring, Spring Boot, React, or Angular, and application servers such as Tomcat, Netty, Node.js, or Next.js.
โขExperience with relational and non-relational databases and associated ORM frameworks or drivers.
โขFamiliarity with ITSM tools such as ServiceNow or similar platforms, and ITIL-aligned change and release processes.
โขExperience working in Agile or Scrum delivery environments.
โขKnowledge of security compliance frameworks such as ISO 27001 or SOC 2.