Senior Data Reliability Engineer - AWS & Observability

Empower Retirement, LLC; Overland Park (KS); On-site; USD 106,000 - 149,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Life insurance

401(k) with match

Tuition reimbursement

Paid time off

Volunteer time off

Job summary

Empower Retirement, LLC in Overland Park, KS is seeking a highly skilled Site Reliability Engineer to own and improve the reliability of production data platforms and pipelines. You will monitor, troubleshoot, automate, and apply SRE practices to reduce toil and improve resilience.

We value strong Python, SQL, Terraform, and observability experience with Datadog and Splunk, plus a track record of incident management and cost-efficient cloud operations.

Qualifications

• Experience implementing and operating SRE practices in production environments.
• Proven ability to design, monitor, and improve data pipelines and platforms.
• Strong automation and tooling skills for reliability and incident response.

Responsibilities

• Own and improve the reliability, availability, performance, and operational health of production data platforms and pipelines.
• Monitor and support pipeline execution, dependencies, failures, delays, recovery, and downstream impact.
• Troubleshoot complex production issues across AWS, data platforms, pipelines, and supporting services.
• Design and improve observability using Datadog and Splunk, including dashboards, alerting, logging, and service-health indicators.
• Lead or participate in production incident response, root cause analysis, and corrective actions.

Skills

SRE practices

Cloud reliability

Python

SQL

Incident management

Root cause analysis

On-call experience

Cost optimization

Tools

Datadog

Splunk

Terraform

Python

SQL

Job description

Empower Retirement, LLC in Overland Park, KS is seeking a highly skilled Site Reliability Engineer to own and improve the reliability of production data platforms and pipelines. You will monitor, troubleshoot, automate, and apply SRE practices to reduce toil and improve resilience.

We value strong Python, SQL, Terraform, and observability experience with Datadog and Splunk, plus a track record of incident management and cost-efficient cloud operations.