Senior Site Reliability Engineer (Senior SRE)

Mondo

Remote · US Contract Senior $70 – $90/hr Today

About the role

About

The Senior Site Reliability Engineer is responsible for improving reliability, scalability, and operational excellence across distributed systems through automation, observability, and engineering best practices.

Responsibilities

Lead reliability and recovery planning for critical systems and services
Define and maintain SLIs, SLOs, and error budget practices
Drive incident response efforts and lead complex outage investigations
Conduct root cause analysis and implement corrective actions
Design and build automation to reduce operational toil
Improve CI/CD pipelines, deployment workflows, and rollback strategies
Develop and maintain observability tooling for metrics, logs, and tracing
Partner with release and change management teams on release readiness
Mentor engineers and promote operational excellence across teams
Influence system architecture to improve reliability and scalability

Requirements

Must-Haves:

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field
6–10 years of experience in SRE, DevOps, platform engineering, or software engineering
Strong experience with AWS and distributed systems
Professional experience performing root cause analysis and incident management
Experience documenting SRE systems and operational processes
Strong programming skills across multiple languages
Experience with observability tools, monitoring, logging, and tracing
Experience with CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation
Familiarity with containerization and orchestration technologies
Strong troubleshooting, analytical, and problem-solving skills
Ability to work effectively in regulated or enterprise environments