Remote SRE: Observability & Automation Lead

Zachary Piper Solutions; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 145,000; Full time

Job summary

Piper Companies is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to join the Ops Stack / Platform Engineering team with a leading enterprise organization. This remote role focuses on observability, system health, patching, vulnerability remediation, and automation across large-scale environments.

You will build monitoring, dashboards, and automation, partner with security and infrastructure teams, and support production reliability in a remote US-based capacity.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, Platform Engineering, DevOps, Cloud Engineering, or Infrastructure Engineering.
• Strong experience with observability, monitoring, logging, alerting, and system-health strategies.
• Hands-on experience with infrastructure patching, vulnerability remediation, or infrastructure lifecycle management.
• Experience supporting Linux and/or Windows environments.
• Strong scripting and automation experience using Python, PowerShell, Bash, or similar technologies.
• Familiarity with infrastructure automation and configuration management technologies such as Ansible, Terraform, Puppet, or Chef.
• Experience with observability platforms such as Splunk, Datadog, Dynatrace, Grafana, Prometheus, Elastic, or comparable technologies preferred.
• Familiarity with containers and Kubernetes is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Build, maintain, and enhance observability and monitoring capabilities across enterprise infrastructure and platform environments.
• Develop dashboards, alerts, metrics, and logging strategies to improve visibility into system health, availability, and performance.
• Monitor platform availability, reliability, capacity, and performance and proactively identify potential issues.
• Own and improve OS and infrastructure patching processes, including scheduling, deployment, validation, and remediation.
• Support vulnerability remediation initiatives and collaborate with security teams to resolve infrastructure findings.
• Automate operational processes involving patching, monitoring, remediation, and routine system maintenance.
• Troubleshoot complex production and infrastructure issues and conduct root cause analysis.
• Partner with Platform Engineering, Infrastructure, Security, and application teams to improve platform reliability.

Skills

Observability

Monitoring

Automation

Python

PowerShell

Bash

Linux

Windows

Ansible

Terraform

Kubernetes

SRE/DevOps mindset

Tools

Ansible

Terraform

Puppet

Chef

Splunk

Datadog

Dynatrace

Grafana

Prometheus

Elastic

Kubernetes

Job description

Piper Companies is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to join the Ops Stack / Platform Engineering team with a leading enterprise organization. This remote role focuses on observability, system health, patching, vulnerability remediation, and automation across large-scale environments.

You will build monitoring, dashboards, and automation, partner with security and infrastructure teams, and support production reliability in a remote US-based capacity.