Remote Contract: Interactive SRE & Incident Analysis

Patronus AI; United States; Remote; USD 170,000 - 243,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully remote

Internationally oriented

Paid trial

Flexible hours

Job summary

Patronus AI is seeking an experienced site reliability/production engineer for a fully remote engagement. You will handle production-like reliability tasks in sandboxed environments, explain decisions, and document outcomes after each scenario.

The role requires live sessions overlap with US/Europe hours; approximately 10 hours per week for initial 1–3 months, at $150/hour with a paid trial. This contractor position is remote and international.

Qualifications

• Experience in site reliability, production engineering, or platform operations.
• Hands-on experience with orchestration, monitoring, infrastructure as code, or deployment pipelines.
• Good incident judgment and risk-aware decision making.
• Strong verbal communication and concise post-incident writing.

Responsibilities

• Triage alerts and investigate system behavior using metrics, logs, and traces.
• Diagnose root causes and apply mitigations, rollbacks, or fixes.
• Collaborate with infrastructure and delivery tooling teams.
• Explain decisions during live sessions and flag unsafe approaches.
• Document investigations and resolutions after each scenario.

Skills

Site reliability

Operations tooling

Incident judgment

Live-session communication

Tools

Kubernetes

Prometheus

Grafana

Helm

Terraform

CI/CD tooling

Job description

Patronus AI is seeking an experienced site reliability/production engineer for a fully remote engagement. You will handle production-like reliability tasks in sandboxed environments, explain decisions, and document outcomes after each scenario.

The role requires live sessions overlap with US/Europe hours; approximately 10 hours per week for initial 1–3 months, at $150/hour with a paid trial. This contractor position is remote and international.