Senior Cloud Observability & SRE Engineer

Ontrac Solutions; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Ontrac Solutions is seeking an experienced Observability / Site Reliability Engineer to design, scale, and maintain enterprise monitoring ecosystems across multi-cloud and hybrid environments. The role focuses on high availability, performance tuning, and deep visibility, bridging development and operations.

The ideal candidate will implement SRE best practices with SLIs/SLOs and error budgets, leveraging GCP tools, Grafana, Prometheus, and Kubernetes/OpenShift platforms to drive reliable,

Qualifications

• Experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) observability and cloud-native monitoring.
• Strong Linux/Unix system administration and scripting skills.
• Proficiency in at least one modern programming language (Python/Go/Java).
• Container orchestration experience with Kubernetes/OpenShift.

Responsibilities

• Architect, optimize, and maintain observability across hybrid cloud environments with a focus on GCP tools.
• Design, deploy, and maintain robust observability stacks using Prometheus, Grafana, and cloud-native integrations.
• Drive IaC initiatives using Terraform and Ansible for automated deployments of infrastructure and observability tooling.
• Integrate CI/CD pipelines in Kubernetes/GKE/OpenShift environments using GitHub, Harness, and related tools.
• Analyze system performance and tune Linux/Unix resources in distributed environments.
• Define and evangelize SRE practices including SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets for platform reliability.

Skills

Cloud Infrastructure

Observability tooling

OS & Scripting

Programming

Containers & Orchestration

Tools

Grafana

Prometheus

GEM

Terraform

Ansible

Kubernetes

OpenShift

GKE

Job description

Ontrac Solutions is seeking an experienced Observability / Site Reliability Engineer to design, scale, and maintain enterprise monitoring ecosystems across multi-cloud and hybrid environments. The role focuses on high availability, performance tuning, and deep visibility, bridging development and operations.

The ideal candidate will implement SRE best practices with SLIs/SLOs and error budgets, leveraging GCP tools, Grafana, Prometheus, and Kubernetes/OpenShift platforms to drive reliable,