Site Reliability Engineer

Austin, TX $-$ 2 days ago

Our client is seeking an experienced Site Reliability Engineer to champion reliability, scalability, and operational excellence across large-scale enterprise platforms. This role focuses on applying engineering principles to operations, building automation, and ensuring highly available systems that support critical business applications.

• Promote and apply Site Reliability Engineering principles by driving automation and repeatable solutions to operational challenges.
• Design and develop tools and scripts that automate operational workflows and integrate seamlessly with infrastructure and platforms.
• Identify opportunities to enhance system reliability, performance, and observability for enterprise applications.
• Partner with engineering, Agile, and operations teams to provide technical guidance and support initiatives focused on system stability and availability.
• Respond to alerts, troubleshoot complex production issues, and manage changes to minimize risk and downtime.
• Build frameworks, instrumentation, and monitoring solutions to improve deployment success and application health.
• Support capacity planning efforts and contribute to CI/CD orchestration to improve software delivery efficiency.
• Diagnose and resolve real-time issues in mission-critical application environments and feed insights back into development teams.
• Participate in on-call rotations to support production systems.

• Six to eight years of experience supporting and administering enterprise‑scale systems and applications.
• Extensive background in automation scripting, proactive monitoring, dashboard development, and alerting strategies.
• Strong understanding of the software development lifecycle and experience driving process improvements.
• Hands‑on experience with enterprise system administration, deployment, and monitoring in both Linux and Windows environments.
• Experience configuring, migrating, and supporting cloud‑based applications; exposure to GCP or Pivotal Cloud Foundry is a plus.
• Solid understanding of networking fundamentals, including DNS, DHCP, firewalls, and routing concepts.
• Experience working with distributed systems and high‑availability architectures.
• Development or scripting experience using technologies such as .NET, Power Shell, Java, Python, or Bash.
• Familiarity with relational and No
  
  SQL databases, including SQL‑based systems, Oracle, or Mongo
  
  DB.
• Experience with messaging platforms and streaming technologies such as Kafka, Rabbit
  
  MQ, Solace, or IBM MQ.
• Hands‑on experience with monitoring and observability tools such as Splunk, App Dynamics, or similar platforms.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical discipline.

• Prior experience in the financial services industry.
• Experience working within Agile or iterative delivery frameworks.

• Strong customer‑focused mindset with a proactive approach to ownership and accountability.
• High level of commitment to diagnosing and resolving complex issues in distributed environments.
• Natural problem‑solver with the persistence to investigate deeply and identify root causes.
• Self‑motivated professional capable of working independently while delivering consistent, high‑quality results.

Mid‑Senior level

Full‑time

Information Technology