Senior SRE

Job Title: Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Location-Type: Remote

Start Date: ASAP

Duration: 4-6 Month C2H

Compensation Range: $75-95/hr

Benefits: Eligible for Health, Dental, Vision, and 401K

Visa Sponsorship: Not eligible for visa sponsorship

Job Description:

This role serves as a hands-on technical leader responsible for designing, implementing, and advancing reliability across complex, distributed systems in a highly regulated financial services environment.

Job Summary

Design and implement reliability strategies across distributed, business-critical systems using automation, observability, and architectural guidance.

Lead root cause analysis investigations on incidents and produce clear documentation of findings and remediation steps.

Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation to support reliable, measurable software delivery.

Advance observability practices across production workloads, including metrics, logging, and distributed tracing.

Influence system design upstream by operating with significant autonomy and engaging stakeholders on reliability outcomes.

Contribute to scripting and automation using Java, Python, or comparable languages to reduce toil and improve system reliability.

Support containerized and serverless workloads across a large-scale AWS environment spanning approximately 1,200 hosts.

Minimum Requirements:

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.

6-10 years of experience in SRE, software engineering, platform engineering, or DevOps roles.

Deep hands-on experience with AWS across multiple architecture patterns, including containerized applications, EC2, and serverless.

Strong programming skills with professional experience in Java and/or Python for scripting and automation.

Proven experience with observability tooling covering metrics, logs, and tracing.

Solid experience with CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation, and root cause analysis investigation and documentation.

Demonstrated ability to operate effectively in complex, regulated enterprise environments.

Preferred Qualifications:

Experience with Infrastructure as Code, particularly CloudFormation.

Familiarity with application frameworks such as Spring, Spring Boot, React, or Angular, and application servers such as Tomcat, Netty, Node.js, or Next.js.

Experience with relational and non-relational databases and associated ORM frameworks or drivers.

Familiarity with ITSM tools such as ServiceNow or similar platforms, and ITIL-aligned change and release processes.

Experience working in Agile or Scrum delivery environments.

Knowledge of security compliance frameworks such as ISO 27001 or SOC 2.

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