Remote Application SRE: Reliability, Automation & Cloud

ELLKAY; Elmwood Park (NJ); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work options

Hybrid work environment

Medical, Dental, and Vision benefits

401k w/ matching

Paid time off

Career growth opportunities

Flexible working hours

Hybrid/remote options for certainRoles

Job summary

ELLKAY is seeking an Application Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) with strong DevOps experience to improve the reliability, scalability, and performance of our applications. The role drives reliability standards, observability, and automation across teams to enable faster, safer releases.

The SRE will lead complex incident responses, partner with development teams, and implement best practices to ensure resilient software delivery in a hybrid work environment.

Qualifications

• Minimum 7 years of SRE experience with strong DevOps background.
• Solid understanding of Windows and Linux systems and networking.
• Hands-on cloud experience (AWS, Azure, GCP) and container orchestration.
• Proficiency with CI/CD tools and Infrastructure as Code.
• Strong scripting and observability skills; incident management experience.

Responsibilities

• Own application reliability, availability, performance, and scalability in production and non-production environments.
• Design, build, and maintain CI/CD pipelines for deployments.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning with Infrastructure as Code.
• Monitor health with metrics, logs, and traces; define SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets.
• Lead incident response and RCA, ensuring corrective actions are completed.
• Improve resilience via capacity planning, tuning, and fault tolerance.
• Partner with development teams to meet reliability and scalability objectives.
• Reduce manual toil through automation and self-healing solutions.
• Act as incident commander for Sev1/Sev2 situations when needed.

Skills

SRE/DevOps experience

Windows & Linux

Cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP)

Docker & Kubernetes

CI/CD (Jenkins, GitHub Actions)

Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, in/

Scripting (Python, Bash)

Observability (Prometheus, Grafana)

Incident management & RCA

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

Terraform

CloudFormation

ARM

Prometheus

Grafana

ELK

Datadog

Job description

ELLKAY is seeking an Application Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) with strong DevOps experience to improve the reliability, scalability, and performance of our applications. The role drives reliability standards, observability, and automation across teams to enable faster, safer releases.

The SRE will lead complex incident responses, partner with development teams, and implement best practices to ensure resilient software delivery in a hybrid work environment.