Senior Application Development Advisor

Jobtailor

Colorado

Hybrid

USD 130,000 - 170,000

Full time

14 days+

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Job summary

Jobtailor is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to drive reliability, scalability, and automation for mission-critical applications in a dynamic 24x7 environment. You will lead onshore and offshore teams, implement proactive monitoring, and partner with engineering to deliver resilient platforms.

You will analyze KPIs/SLOs, manage cloud services (AWS), and advance self-healing capabilities. Strong collaboration and deep troubleshooting skills are essential for success.

Qualifications

6+ years of experience supporting enterprise applications in development, site reliability engineering, operations, or related technology roles.
3+ years of hands-on Python development experience.
Experience managing highly available, scalable, and resilient applications in production environments.
Experience defining, measuring, and improving KPIs, SLOs, and operational metrics.
Hands-on experience with AWS services including IAM, EC2, S3, CloudWatch, Lambda, Step Functions, SQS, SNS, Glue, Athena, and related technologies.
Experience implementing monitoring, alerting, and operational support solutions.

Responsibilities

Drive the reliability, availability, and scalability of mission-crictical applications in a 24x7 environment.
Lead and support a blended team across onshore and offshore locations.
Implement proactive monitoring, alerting, and observability solutions to identify and resolve issues before impact.
Conduct root cause analysis of failures and implement sustainable corrective actions.
Develop automation to streamline deployments, configuration, and health checks.
Partner with engineering to design, deploy, and support resilient solutions.
Advance self-healing capabilities to reduce manual intervention.
Analyze availability, reliability, and performance metrics to drive improvements.
Participate in major incident management and post-incident reviews.

Skills

Site Reliability Engineering

Python Development

AWS Services

Monitoring & Alerting

Infrastructure as Code

Containerization

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Observability

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IT/Engineering

Tools

AWS

Dynatrace

Splunk

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

Databricks

Snowflake

Job description

Drive the reliability, availability, and scalability of mission-critical applications supporting Voice Self-Service and Automation capabilities.
Lead and support a blended team of employees and consultants operating across onshore and offshore locations in a 24x7 environment.
Implement proactive monitoring, alerting, and observability solutions to identify and resolve issues before they impact customers or business operations.
Conduct root cause analysis of application and system failures, implementing sustainable corrective actions to prevent recurrence.
Develop automation solutions that streamline deployments, configuration management, operational processes, and application health checks.
Partner with engineering teams to design, deploy, and support resilient solutions that maximize system stability and performance.
Advance self-healing capabilities that reduce manual intervention and improve overall service availability.
Analyze availability, reliability, and performance metrics to identify improvement opportunities and drive operational excellence.
Participate in major incident management, service restoration activities, and post-incident reviews impacting the STP organization.
Champion best practices in cloud operations, automation, observability, and platform resiliency.

Requirements

6+ years of experience supporting enterprise applications in development, site reliability engineering, operations, or related technology roles
3+ years of hands-on Python development experience
Experience managing highly available, scalable, and resilient applications in production environments
Experience defining, measuring, and improving key performance indicators (KPIs), service level objectives (SLOs), and operational metrics
Hands-on experience with AWS services, including IAM, EC2, S3, CloudWatch, Lambda, Step Functions, SQS, SNS, Glue, Athena, and related technologies
Experience implementing monitoring, alerting, and operational support solutions
Strong problem-solving, analytical, and troubleshooting skills
Proven ability to collaborate effectively across engineering, operations, and business teams
Experience using enterprise monitoring and logging tools, including Dynatrace and Splunk
Strong verbal and written communication skills.
Experience with containerization and orchestration technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes (preferred)
Experience implementing Infrastructure as Code (IaC), preferably using Terraform (preferred)
Experience with Databricks and Snowflake platforms (preferred)
Experience with CI/CD tools such as GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or similar automation platforms (preferred)
AWS certification (preferred)
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field (preferred)

Core Competencies

Demonstrates expertise in driving the reliability, availability, and scalability of mission-critical applications, with a strong focus on automation, monitoring, and operational excellence. Proficient in collaborating across teams to implement resilient solutions and improve service availability through data-driven analysis.

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