Hybrid SRE: Cloud Reliability & AI-Driven Automation

The Hartford; Hartford (CT); Hybrid; USD 91,000 - 137,000; Full time

Job summary

The Hartford is seeking a Reliability Engineer to lead infrastructure resilience for cloud and SAAS environments, focusing on availability, performance, and security through automation and AI-driven runbooks.

You will partner with Architecture, SRE, and DevOps teams to implement preventative controls and self-healing capabilities, while instrumenting code to generate health metrics and optimizing CI/CD and IaC pipelines. Hybrid work in Hartford, CT and other U.S. offices.

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 technology stack to generate metrics on health, availability, performance and resiliency.
• Assist architecture and software engineering teams to influence technical strategy and cross-functional impact.
• Assist on a team as a technical leader for applications supported across integrations and business domains.
• Develop tooling, alerts, and response mechanisms to identify and address reliability risks with automation.
• Enhance delivery flow by engineering solutions to increase speed while upholding reliability standards.
• Partner to implement preventative controls and drive automation and self-healing capabilities.
• Improve cost efficiency baselines and promote innovative solutions.
• Ensure operational excellence and drive rapid service restoration for high-impact incidents.
• Collaborate with infrastructure teams to design intelligent incident routing and automated recovery processes.
• Proactively prevent high-impact incidents and maintain asset continuity.

Skills

Python

Java

Cloud

SRE

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science/Engineering

Tools

Splunk

Dynatrace

CloudWatch

Terraform

CloudFormation

Job description

The Hartford is seeking a Reliability Engineer to lead infrastructure resilience for cloud and SAAS environments, focusing on availability, performance, and security through automation and AI-driven runbooks.

You will partner with Architecture, SRE, and DevOps teams to implement preventative controls and self-healing capabilities, while instrumenting code to generate health metrics and optimizing CI/CD and IaC pipelines. Hybrid work in Hartford, CT and other U.S. offices.