Service Reliability Engineer Jobs Near Me

Summary:
This role combines deep expertise in cloud technologies with a strong focus on reliability, scalability, and automation, ensuring that digital services are robust, efficient, and aligned with business objectives. The engineer will work cross-functionally with development, operations, and security teams to implement best practices and drive innovation in cloud infrastructure

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Cloud Adoption Strategy: Collaborate with stakeholders to develop and execute strategies for adopting GCP services, including migration planning, architecture design, and implementation.

• Reliability Engineering: Apply SRE principles to GCP environments, focusing on service reliability, availability, and scalability. Develop monitoring, alerting, and automation solutions to prevent outages and reduce manual intervention.

• Cloud Infrastructure Management: Build, maintain, and optimize cloud infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as Terraform or Deployment Manager.

• Automation & CI/CD: Design and implement automated deployment pipelines and operational workflows to enable continuous integration and delivery of cloud-based applications.

• Incident Management: Lead incident response for cloud-related issues, conduct root cause analysis, and implement corrective actions to improve system reliability.

• Performance Optimization: Monitor system performance and proactively identify areas for improvement in cost, efficiency, and reliability.

• Security & Compliance: Ensure cloud environments adhere to security best practices and compliance requirements. Collaborate with security teams to implement controls and monitor risk.

• Documentation & Knowledge Sharing: Create and maintain technical documentation. Mentor and train team members on GCP adoption and SRE practices.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, or a related field
• 3+ years of experience in cloud engineering, site reliability engineering, or DevOps, with hands-on expertise in GCP.
  • Hands-on with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools (e.g., Terraform, Deployment Manager).
  • Hands-on with monitoring, logging, and alerting tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana).
  • Hands-on with designing and implementing CI/CD pipelines and automation workflows.
  • Hands-on with troubleshooting and problem-solving skills, especially in distributed systems and cloud environments.
  • Hands-on with SRE principles, including error budgets, SLIs/SLOs, and incident management.
  • Hands-on with cloud security, best practices and regulatory compliance requirements.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively in cross-functional teams

• Ability to work independently and multitask within a collaborative work environment

• Willingness and aptitude for continuous improvement

• Do the right thing attitude while being a strong team player

• Strong communication and collaboration skills, focus on customer service

• GCP Professional certifications

• Experience migrating workloads from on-premises or other cloud platforms to GCP.

• Familiarity with Kubernetes, Docker, and container orchestration in GCP.

• Experience with agile methodologies and project management tools