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Cadre5

Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Knoxville, TN · On-site

$50.75 - $67.50/hr

  • Medical

  • Dental

  • Vision

  • Retirement

  • PTO

Senior Site Reliability Engineer Founded in 1999 in the beautiful Smoky Mountains of East Tennessee, Cadre5 provides innovative technical solutions to customers locally and nationally. Our Cadre5 Lab ...

Oracle

Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Nashville, TN · On-site

$55 - $73.25/hr

  • Medical

  • Dental

  • Vision

  • Life

  • Retirement

  • PTO

We are looking for an experienced Senior Site Reliability Engineer to join our team and drive the reliability and functionality of our critical infrastructure and applications. In this role, you will ...

ITR

Site Reliability Engineer

Oak Ridge, TN · On-site

$54.50 - $72.50/hr

Senior Site Reliability Engineer, HPC Infrastructure and Platforms Overview: Seeking highly qualified individuals to play a key role in improving the security, performance, and reliability of the HPC ...

Oracle

Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Nashville, TN · On-site

$55 - $73.25/hr

  • Medical

  • Dental

  • Vision

  • Life

  • Retirement

  • PTO

Three or more years of experience in site reliability engineering, systems administration, infrastructure operations, DevOps, cloud operations, production support, or a related technical field.

Oracle

Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Nashville, TN

  • Medical

  • Dental

  • Vision

  • Life

  • Retirement

  • PTO

We are looking for an experienced Senior Site Reliability Engineer to join our team and drive the reliability and functionality of our critical infrastructure and applications. In this role, you will ...

Oracle

Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Nashville, TN · On-site

$55 - $73.25/hr

  • Medical

  • Dental

  • Vision

  • Life

  • Retirement

  • PTO

Production support, incident response, or SRE operational experience. * Knowledge of monitoring, alerting, centralized logging, observability, and reliability practices. Qualifications Disclaimer:

Oracle

Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Nashville, TN

  • Medical

  • Dental

  • Vision

  • Life

  • Retirement

  • PTO

We are looking for an experienced Senior Site Reliability Engineer to join our team and drive the reliability and functionality of our critical infrastructure and applications. In this role, you will ...

Oracle

Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Nashville, TN · On-site

$55 - $73.25/hr

  • Medical

  • Dental

  • Vision

  • Life

  • Retirement

  • PTO

Production support, incident response, or SRE operational experience. * Knowledge of monitoring, alerting, centralized logging, observability, and reliability practices. Qualifications Disclaimer:

Oracle

Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Nashville, TN

  • Medical

  • Dental

  • Vision

  • Life

  • Retirement

  • PTO

Production support, incident response, or SRE operational experience. * Knowledge of monitoring, alerting, centralized logging, observability, and reliability practices.

Oracle

Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Nashville, TN

  • Medical

  • Dental

  • Vision

  • Life

  • Retirement

  • PTO

Production support, incident response, or SRE operational experience. * Knowledge of monitoring, alerting, centralized logging, observability, and reliability practices.

Oracle

Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Nashville, TN

  • Medical

  • Dental

  • Vision

  • Life

  • Retirement

  • PTO

Production support, incident response, or SRE operational experience. * Knowledge of monitoring, alerting, centralized logging, observability, and reliability practices.

Oracle

Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Nashville, TN

  • Medical

  • Dental

  • Vision

  • Life

  • Retirement

  • PTO

Production support, incident response, or SRE operational experience. * Knowledge of monitoring, alerting, centralized logging, observability, and reliability practices.

Oracle

Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Nashville, TN

  • Medical

  • Dental

  • Vision

  • Life

  • Retirement

  • PTO

Three or more years of experience in site reliability engineering, systems administration, infrastructure operations, DevOps, cloud operations, production support, or a related technical field.

Oracle

Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Nashville, TN

  • Medical

  • Dental

  • Vision

  • Life

  • Retirement

  • PTO

Three or more years of experience in site reliability engineering, systems administration, infrastructure operations, DevOps, cloud operations, production support, or a related technical field.

AutoZone

Systems Engineer - SRE Enablement

Memphis, TN

$55.25 - $73.50/hr

  • Medical

  • Dental

  • Vision

  • Life

  • Retirement

  • PTO

AutoZone's Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team is seeking a Systems Engineer with a focus on SRE Enablement. This position is responsible for promoting reliability and operational excellence ...

AutoZone

Systems Engineer - SRE Enablement

Memphis, TN · On-site

$55.50 - $73.75/hr

  • Medical

  • Dental

  • Vision

  • Life

  • Retirement

  • PTO

AutoZone's Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team is seeking a Systems Engineer with a focus on SRE Enablement. This position is responsible for promoting reliability and operational excellence ...

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As of Aug 14, 2026, the average hourly pay for senior site reliability engineer in Tennessee is $58.46, according to ZipRecruiter salary data. Most workers in this role earn between $48.22 and $70.05 per hour, depending on experience, location, and employer.

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To thrive as a Senior Site Reliability Engineer, you need deep experience in systems administration, software engineering, automation, and cloud infrastructure, typically supported by a related degree and several years in SRE or DevOps roles. Proficiency with tools like Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, monitoring platforms (e.g., Prometheus, Datadog), and certifications in AWS, GCP, or Azure are common requirements. Strong problem-solving skills, effective communication, and a proactive mindset help you collaborate across teams and respond quickly to incidents. These skills ensure high system reliability, scalability, and rapid recovery from failures, which are critical to business continuity.

What is a senior site reliability engineer?

Senior Site Reliability Engineers (SREs) are experienced IT professionals who ensure the reliability, scalability, and performance of complex software systems. They bridge the gap between software development and operations by automating processes, monitoring system health, responding to incidents, and implementing best practices for system stability. Senior SREs often lead teams, design resilient infrastructure, and mentor junior engineers to improve overall reliability and efficiency in technology environments.

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Senior Site Reliability Engineers often navigate the challenge of maintaining high system uptime and stability while supporting fast-paced software development cycles. This involves implementing robust automation and monitoring, collaborating closely with development teams to ensure new features don't compromise reliability, and proactively addressing potential bottlenecks. Effective communication and prioritization are key, as SREs must advocate for best practices in reliability without slowing down innovation. Continuous learning and adaptation are vital to keep up with evolving technology stacks and complex distributed systems.

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Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Cadre5

Knoxville, TN • On-site

$50.75 - $67.50/hr

Full-time

Medical, Dental, Vision, Retirement, PTO

Posted 28 days ago

Job description

Senior Site Reliability Engineer
Founded in 1999 in the beautiful Smoky Mountains of East Tennessee, Cadre5 provides innovative technical solutions to customers locally and nationally. Our Cadre5 Lab Partners division has partnered with the National Center for Computational Sciences (NCCS) at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) to recruit a Senior Site Reliability Engineer for the American Science Cloud (AmSC) initiative.
AmSC is a first-of-its-kind, federally funded cloud infrastructure and API platform designed to accelerate AI model development, data sharing, and large-scale computational science across the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). ORNL is a premier research institution delivering breakthroughs in energy, national security, and advanced computing.
Located near Knoxville, TN, the lab provides world-class resources to solve some of the nation’s most complex scientific challenges. This is a rare opportunity to be part of a groundbreaking project that will help shape the future of U.S. scientific computing. If you’re passionate about cloud engineering, DevOps, and enabling large-scale science, we’d love to hear from you!
**Please note: The first step in the interview process requires candidates to join a Microsoft Teams meeting with the video turned on.**
This is a full-time position that can telecommute. Occasional travel to the Oak Ridge facility may be required.
Why Cadre5?
  • Working with highly talented team members
  • 3 weeks’ vacation
  • Excellent medical insurance, including employer-paid benefits
Job Responsibilities:
  • Lead ongoing improvements in reliability and scalability for our Kubernetes and Linux based applications and services.
  • Contribute as senior technical resource to define and implement best practices and standards for the center.
  • Provide primary operational support and engineering for production applications.
  • Define and implement define KPIs, processes and drive continuous improvement.
  • Influence the architecture and implementation of solutions.
  • Tune operating systems and applications to increase performance and reliability of services.
  • Mentor junior staff and enable them for success.
  • Diagnose system operational problems quickly and effectively.
  • Participate in on-call rotation providing 24-hour, 7-day support and off-hours maintenance windows.
  • Coordinate with vendors to resolve hardware and software problems.
  • Deliver ORNL’s mission by aligning behaviors, priorities, and interactions with our core values of Impact, Integrity, Teamwork, Safety, and Service. Promote diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility by fostering a respectful workplace – in how we treat one another, work together, and measure success.
Basic Qualifications:
  • Bachelor’s Degree in computer science or closely related field and a minimum of 8 years of experience as an SRE/Systems Engineer. An equivalent combination of education and experience may be considered.
  • The ability to obtain and maintain a Department of Energy "Q" clearance may be required. This requires US Citizenship.
Preferred Qualifications:
  • Excellent interpersonal/communication skills, and the ability to work as part of a team.
  • Strong working knowledge of Unix system fundamentals and common network protocols.
  • Experience managing Linux/UNIX operating systems in a heterogeneous environment.
  • Solid understanding of networked computing environment concepts.
  • Ability to develop and maintain programs and scripts that aid in the operation and automation using various shell (primarily bash) and high-level languages (Python or Go).
  • Ability to proactively identify performance issues, problems, and areas for improvement.
  • Ability to identify requirements and to define, plan, and implement requisite solutions.
  • Ability to plan, organize, prioritize tasks, and complete assigned projects with minimal supervision.
  • Experience with continuous integration and continuous deployment software methodologies and how they apply to SRE/systems engineering.
  • An understanding of code review and familiarity with tools like GitHub and GitLab
  • Experience using tools such as Nagios, Grafana and Prometheus to monitor systems, metrics, and create dashboards.
  • Experience designing and implement highly available systems/services utilizing virtual machines and Kubernetes resources.
  • Experience participating in an opensource community with patches accepted upstream.
  • Experience deploying and maintaining automated configuration management software such as Puppet or Ansible
  • Experience implementing systems-level security technologies like SELinux and following security best practices.
Benefits
Cadre5 offers excellent pay and benefits, to include full medical, dental, and vision coverage coupled with 401K match, 15 days PTO, and 10 holidays.
Cadre5 is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants, including individuals with disabilities and protected veterans, are encouraged to apply. Cadre5 is an E-Verify Employer.
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About Cadre5

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Industry

Software development

Company size

11 - 50 Employees

Headquarters location

Knoxville, TN, US

Year founded

1999

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