Sr Site Reliability Engineer

Sr. Site Reliability Engineer - Direct Hire

Location:

Omaha, NE or Kansas City, MO. Hybrid schedule with 3 days in the office. Salary: $110,000 to $130,000 with 7.5% bonus eligibility.

• Design and implement advanced monitoring frameworks, contribute to monitoring best practices, and collaborate with teammates to leverage monitoring tools for proactive identification and resolution of issues.
• Partner with application teams to improve observability and incident prevention.
• Implement system reliability optimization strategies with the objectives of enhancing system capabilities, ensuring superior performance for our customers, and fostering a culture of continuous innovation/improvement.
• Actively contribute to the growth and evolution of the Site Reliability Engineering practice, evangelizing technical standards and driving adoption of SRE principles.
• Lead incident response activities, providing technical guidance during high‑severity incidents to ensure rapid resolution and minimal service disruption.
• Identify opportunities to automate manual monitoring and response tasks, and champion infrastructure‑as‑code and automation initiatives where applicable.
• Drive toil reduction initiatives through automation and process improvement.
• Serve as a key participant in post‑incident reviews and drive implementation of corrective actions.
• Analyze system performance trends and capacity utilisation, identifying opportunities for improvement.
• Support 24/7 monitoring operations for critical banking systems and applications.
• Optimize alerting strategies to reduce noise and improve mean time to detection.
• Maintain and enhance monitoring dashboards and reporting capabilities.
• Evaluate complex changes and establish risk mitigation strategies.
• Foster operational knowledge sharing and documentation of tribal knowledge.
• Begin establishing SLIs/SLOs for critical services in partnership with product teams.
• Introduce error budget concepts and reliability metrics and facilitate reliability/velocity trade‑off discussions.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years of experience in software development or site reliability.
• Strong Java software engineering experience.
• SRE or engineering‑focused Dev Ops background.
• Experience with AWS, Kubernetes, and Terraform.
• Observability and monitoring expertise (Dynatrace preferred).
• Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD pipelines, observability & monitoring, telemetry, log analysis, incident management, root cause analysis.
• Production incident response and troubleshooting experience.
• Strong engineering mindset with excellent problem‑solving skills.
• Ability to write production code—not just support infrastructure.
• Experience working on high‑availability, mission‑critical systems.
• Proficient with monitoring platforms.
• Strong troubleshooting and crisis response capabilities.
• Broad software development capabilities from scripting to application development to infrastructure as code.
• Familiarity with DORA metrics and Dev Ops measurement frameworks.
• Understanding of network protocols, databases, and system architecture.
• Understanding of deployment pipeline reliability and release engineering practices.
• Strong communication skills for cross‑team coordination.

• Medical, Dental, Vision Insurance
• 401(k) with matching contributions
• Time Off Programs
• Health Savings Account (HSA)/Dependent Care
• Employee Banking
• Growth Opportunities
• Tuition Assistance
• Short‑Term/Long‑Term Disability Insurance