Senior Site Reliability Engineer NEX
Job in
Houston, Harris County, Texas, 77246, USA
Listed on 2026-09-03
Listing for:
NexTier Completion Solutions Inc.
Full Time
position Listed on 2026-09-03
Job specializations:
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IT/Tech
SRE/Site Reliability, Cloud Computing: Infrastructure & Operations
Job Description & How to Apply Below
Reliability Engineering
- * Design, implement, and operate scalable, resilient, and highly available systems on Google Cloud Platform.
- * Improve service availability, latency, performance, scalability, and operational resilience.
- * Define, implement, and track service-level indicators, service-level objectives, and error budgets.
- * Perform capacity planning, performance analysis, and workload forecasting.
- * Design and validate disaster recovery, backup, failover, and service-restoration capabilities.
- * Implement and maintain secure cloud networking, IAM, workload identities, service accounts, and access-control practices.
- * Partner with cybersecurity and identity teams to ensure infrastructure and services follow organizational security standards.
- * Monitor cloud consumption and optimize resource utilization, performance, and cost efficiency.
- * Identify operational risks and recommend improvements to cloud architecture and service design.
- * Build and maintain cloud infrastructure using Terraform or comparable infrastructure-as-code tools.
- * Automate repetitive operational activities and systematically identify, measure, and reduce manual toil.
- * Build reusable infrastructure modules, deployment patterns, and operational tooling.
- * Improve CI/CD pipelines to enable secure, repeatable, and reliable software delivery.
- * Develop actionable alerts that identify meaningful service degradation while reducing alert fatigue and unnecessary operational noise.
- * Create and maintain dashboards, runbooks, operational procedures, and troubleshooting documentation.
- * Participate in a sustainable on-call rotation supporting production systems.
- * Respond to production incidents, coordinate service restoration, and lead incident response when appropriate.
- * Facilitate blameless postmortems and identify corrective and preventive actions.
- * Use incident and operational data to improve system design, automation, monitoring, and response processes.
- * Partner with software engineering, data engineering, security, and product teams to improve application reliability and production operations.
- * Promote shared responsibility for production reliability between application development and platform teams.
- * Establish and document reliability standards, operational practices, and reusable engineering patterns.
- * Provide technical guidance and coaching on SRE, cloud, Kubernetes, observability, and incident-management practices.
- * Three or more years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, platform engineering, Dev Ops, cloud engineering, production software engineering, or a similar role.
- * Experience operating highly available systems in a 24/7 production environment.
- * Hands-on experience operating workloads on Google Cloud Platform or another major public cloud platform.
- * Strong experience managing compute, networking and data GCP services workloads
- * Strong experience with containerization and orchestration technologies, including Docker and Kubernetes.
- * Experience building and managing infrastructure with Terraform or a comparable infrastructure-as-code tool.
- * Proficiency in Python, Go, Java, or another comparable programming language.
- * Experience implementing or operating CI/CD pipelines using Git Hub Actions,Azure Dev Ops, Bitbucket Pipelines, or comparable tools.
- * Experience implementing observability using metrics, logs, traces, dashboards, and alerts.
- * Experience participating in on-call rotations, responding to incidents, and contributing to postmortems.
- * Understanding of SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, and other SRE principles.
- * Ability to troubleshoot complex issues across application, infrastructure, network, data, and cloud-service layers.
- * Ability to communicate effectively with engineering teams, business stakeholders, and operational personnel.
- * Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- * 3+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, platform engineering, cloud engineering, or Dev Ops.
- * 3+ years of experience operating production workloads in GCP.
- * Ability to understand and communicate in English at a level sufficient to issue, receive, and respond to safety-related and operations-related instructions.
- * Google Cloud and/or Kubernetes certifications.
- * Experience supporting data-intensive, streaming, analytics, or event-driven platforms.
- * Experience establishing production-readiness, incident-management, or reliability-review processes.
- * Experience working in the energy, oil and gas, industrial, IoT, field operations, or other operationally critical industries.
- * Experience supporting technology environments that integrate cloud platforms with remote sites, field equipment, industrial systems, or edge computing.
Position Requirements
10+ Years
work experience
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