Hybrid Reliability Engineer | SRE & AI-Driven DevSecOps

thehartford; Hartford (CT); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

The Hartford is seeking a Reliability Engineer to strengthen infrastructure resilience in cloud and SAAS environments. You will lead initiatives across observability, automation, and DevSecOps, collaborating with IT and engineering teams to ensure systems are stable, scalable, and secure.

The role emphasizes AI-driven tooling, proactive problem prevention, and continuous improvement of delivery and incident response processes within a hybrid work setting.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• 3+ years of experience in Infrastructure Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), or DevOps.
• Hands-on experience with observability tools: Splunk, Dynatrace, CloudWatch.
• Deep knowledge of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) with Terraform, CloudFormation.
• Proven ability to optimize CI/CD pipelines, automate deployments, and enforce DevSecOps best practices.
• Expertise in cloud platforms (AWS) and Kubernetes-based microservices environments.
• Strong proficiency in Python, Java for infrastructure automation and tooling development.
• Experience in AI/ML frameworks for observability, predictive failure detection, and AI-driven troubleshooting desirable.
• Experience with Oracle and SQL Server relational database technologies. Knowledge of open-source database technologies is beneficial.
• Demonstrated experience working within Agile frameworks and methodologies.
• Excellent analytical, problem solving and interpersonal skills.

Responsibilities

• Assist in instrumenting code/application stacks to generate metrics on health, availability, performance and resiliency.
• Support architecture and software engineering teams to influence technical strategy and cross-functional impact.
• Act as a technical leader for applications supported, covering multiple technologies and domains.
• Develop tooling, alerts, and response mechanisms to identify and address reliability risks with automation.
• Improve delivery flow by engineering solutions that increase speed while maintaining standards.
• Promote preventive controls and automation for cost efficiency and self-healing capabilities.
• Drive incident triage, service restoration, and end-to-end ownership across IT operations.
• Collaborate with infra teams to enhance monitoring/alerting and automate recovery processes.
• Research and implement AI-based anomaly detection to predict failures and automate preventive measures.

Skills

SRE

Observability

Terraform

CloudWatch

Kubernetes

Python

Java

DevSecOps

AWS

AI/ML

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in CS/Engineering

Tools

Splunk

Dynatrace

CloudWatch

Terraform

Job description

The Hartford is seeking a Reliability Engineer to strengthen infrastructure resilience in cloud and SAAS environments. You will lead initiatives across observability, automation, and DevSecOps, collaborating with IT and engineering teams to ensure systems are stable, scalable, and secure.

The role emphasizes AI-driven tooling, proactive problem prevention, and continuous improvement of delivery and incident response processes within a hybrid work setting.