Google Cloud Site Reliability Engineer; GCP SRE

Google Cloud Site Reliability Engineer (GCP SRE)

Our client, a IT Services and Consulting company, is looking for a Google Cloud Site Reliability Engineer (GCP SRE) for their Buffalo Grove, IL/Hybrid location.

• Responsible for incident detection & logging and meeting agreed SLA for incident tickets.
• Responsible for bridge activation & communication (P1–P2).
• Postmortem preparation (within 24–72 hours) & root cause analysis.
• Responsible for critical monitoring activities, problem management & Grafana integration.
• Participate in oncall rotations, handle incidents, and drive timely mitigation and recovery.
• Automating operational work so services can scale without manual toil also operating highly available, low latency & secure systems.
• Defining and measuring reliability through SLIs/SLOs and error budgets.
• Build and maintain observability: metrics, logs, traces, dashboards, and alerts for critical services.
• Tune alerting to reduce noise while ensuring rapid detection of user impacting issues.
• Lead or contribute to post incident reviews and root cause analysis and ensure follow up actions are implemented to prevent recurrence.
• Added advantage if resource is familiar on tools Tidal, Service Now, Xmatters, Abinitio, Tableau, Opsgenie & Zeke.

• 8+ years in site reliability engineering, Dev Ops, or cloud engineering.
• Strong experience supporting production GCP environments.
• Experience with enterprise incident management and cloud operations.
• Knowledge/experience in GCP (Big Query, Cloud storage, Dataproc, GKE, Airflow/Composer, Pub-sub, Cloud function, Cloud SQL etc).
• Knowledge/experience in Github & Visual Studio code.
• Knowledge/experience in MS-Copilot.
• Knowledge/experience in Prometheus, Grafana & Splunk.
• Knowledge in Python/Pyspark/Machine learning is an added advantage.
• Clear written and verbal communication, particularly under pressure (e.g., during incidents).
• Ability to collaborate across multiple teams and influence engineering practices through expertise rather than authority.
• Strong communication, analytical, knowledge on entire incident management life cycle process, Agile model experience, and problem-solving skills.
• EDP-SRE (Google Site Reliability Engineer).
• Site Reliability Engineers combined software engineering with systems and infrastructure operations to build and run large, reliable, scalable services.
• Years of
  
  Experience:
  
  10.00 Years of Experience.

• Health benefits.
• Referral program.
• Excellent growth and advancement opportunities.