Remote SRE & Platform Engineer - Observability & Automation

ErthDev; United States; Remote; USD 1,700 - 2,400; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid annual leave

Learning and certification support

Conference opportunities

Equipment and internet stipend

Medical insurance assistance

Flexible hours

Job summary

ErthDev is seeking a Part-time Site Reliability Engineer to improve reliability, observability, and the engineering platform behind production systems. You will automate deployment and recovery workflows, strengthen incident response, and collaborate with DevOps, backend, and product teams to ensure production readiness.

The role emphasizes learning-focused incident reviews, runbook documentation, and capacity planning while supporting a flexible, globally distributed environment.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience operating production systems.
• Strong Linux, networking, and cloud fundamentals.
• Experience with observability tooling and troubleshooting.
• Familiarity with containers and deployment automation.
• Able to manage incidents and communicate under pressure.

Responsibilities

• Improve reliability targets and incident response practices.
• Build and maintain platform tools for engineering teams.
• Strengthen observability with metrics, logs, traces, and alerts.
• Automate recurring operational tasks in deployment and recovery workflows.
• Collaborate with DevOps, backend, and product teams for production readiness.
• Lead incident reviews and contribute to capacity and resilience planning.

Skills

Production systems

Linux

Networking

Cloud fundamentals

Observability tooling

Incident management

Automation

Deployment automation

Tools

Kubernetes

Terraform

Prometheus/Grafana

OpenTelemetry

AWS

Job description

ErthDev is seeking a Part-time Site Reliability Engineer to improve reliability, observability, and the engineering platform behind production systems. You will automate deployment and recovery workflows, strengthen incident response, and collaborate with DevOps, backend, and product teams to ensure production readiness.

The role emphasizes learning-focused incident reviews, runbook documentation, and capacity planning while supporting a flexible, globally distributed environment.