Expert Site Reliability Engineer

Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) - Remote

Overview:
As a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) at Altera, you will be responsible for ensuring the reliability, scalability, and performance of our hosted healthcare platforms. This role blends software and systems engineering to enhance service availability, automate operations, and improve the customer experience. You will act as a technical leader in monitoring, troubleshooting, incident response, and continuous improvement across our cloud and hybrid environments.

• Maintain and improve the reliability, availability, and performance of our production environments.
• Lead the investigation and resolution of complex application, database, and infrastructure issues.
• Participate in incident management, conduct root cause analysis (RCA), and contribute to post‑incident reviews to prevent future occurrences.
• Define and measure Service Level Indicators (SLIs) and Objectives (SLOs) to meet our service commitments.
• Develop proactive monitoring and alerting strategies to identify and resolve issues before they impact customers.
• Automate operational tasks using scripting and Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) to improve efficiency.
• Partner with engineering and cloud teams to refine deployment, monitoring, and support processes.
• Provide technical leadership during major incidents and act as a key escalation point for critical issues.

Experience
: 7+ years of experience supporting enterprise applications, infrastructure, or cloud environments.

• Monitoring & Observability
  :
  Strong experience with APM tools such as Logic Monitor, App Dynamics, Azure Monitor, Sentry One, Dynatrace, Datadog, or New Relic.
• Microsoft Stack
  :
  Deep knowledge of Windows Server administration, IIS, .NET applications, Windows Clustering, MSMQ, Event Logs, and Perf Mon.
• Database Skills
  :
  Strong SQL Server experience, including performance tuning, query optimization, blocking analysis, and Always On Availability Groups.
• Cloud & Networking
  :
  Experience with Azure cloud environments and a solid understanding of networking fundamentals (DNS, TCP/IP, load balancing, firewalls).
• ITSM & ITIL
  :
  Familiarity with Service Now (or other ITSM platforms) and ITIL principles.
• Preferred Skills
  :
  Scripting with Power Shell, Python, or similar languages;
  Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, ARM Templates, Bicep); CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation (Azure Dev Ops, Git Hub Actions);
  Experience with Kubernetes and containerized workloads;
  Experience implementing SLOs, SLIs, and Error Budgets;
  Experience in a healthcare technology or patient care environment.
• Education
  :
  Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or Engineering is preferred; equivalent professional experience will be considered.

This is a remote position open to candidates within the United States. You will participate in an on‑call rotation to support our 24x7 healthcare environment. Occasional after‑hours work is required for activations, upgrades, and major incidents.

Travel is not a requirement for this role.

$95,000–$110,000

Altera is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. We consider applicants without regard to race, color, religion, age, national origin, ancestry, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, veteran status, disability, genetic information, citizenship status, or membership in any other group protected by local law.