Site Reliability Engineer NEX

Job Description

The Nex Tier Technology team is looking for a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to help build, scale, and maintain highly reliable systems on Google Cloud Platform (GCP). This role blends software engineering with infrastructure expertise to ensure our services are performant, resilient, and cost-efficient. Candidates will work closely with engineering teams to improve system reliability, automate operations, and embed best practices across the platform.

• Design, implement, and manage scalable, reliable infrastructure on GCP
• Maintain and improve system availability, performance, and latency
• Build and manage infrastructure as code using tools like Terraform or similar
• Develop automation to reduce manual operational work
• Monitor systems using observability tools (metrics, logs, tracing) and respond to incidents
• Participate in on-call rotations and lead incident response and postmortems
• Collaborate with development teams to improve service reliability and deployment processes
• Optimize cloud resource usage and cost efficiency
• Implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines for reliable software delivery
• Define and track SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets

• 3+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, Dev Ops, or similar roles
• Strong experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) services (e.g., Compute Engine, GKE, Cloud Run, Cloud Storage)
• Experience with containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes)
• Proficiency in at least one programming language (e.g., Python, Go, Java)
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform preferred)
• Solid understanding of networking, security, and distributed systems
• Experience with monitoring and logging tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, Cloud Monitoring)
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and automation tools
• Hands-on experience with Google Cloud Platform, including:
  • GCP: GKE, Compute Engine, Cloud Storage, Pub/Sub (or equivalents)
  • Cloud Monitoring & Logging
  • Big Query
  • Dataflow
  • Datastream
  • IAM and networking
  • Composer/Airflow
  • Kubernetes: deployment, scaling, reliability patterns
  • CI/CD:
    Git Hub Actions, Git Lab CI, or similar
  • Observability: GCP Cloud Monitoring, Logging
  • Experience operating systems in 24/7 production environments

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Information Technology, Computer Science, or a related field.
• 3+ years experience in Site Reliability Engineering, Cloud Platform Engineering, or Dev Ops
• 3+ years operating production workloads on Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
• Ability to understand and speak English at a level of proficiency allowing employee to issue, receive and respond to both safety and operations-related directions in English

• Oil and Gas Industry knowledge
• Technology/Digital Industry knowledge

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