Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Optomi; Dallas (TX); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial services provider is seeking an experienced Senior Site Reliability Engineer to join a newly formed Application Reliability team. This hybrid role, located in the Dallas/Fort Worth area, includes responsibilities such as building an SRE practice, collaborating with engineering teams, and implementing observability solutions. Ideal candidates will have 5+ years in SRE or similar roles and strong expertise in AWS and Infrastructure as Code, particularly Terraform and CI/CD pipelines.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, Platform Engineering, or equivalent production roles.
• Hands-on experience with AWS and maintaining large-scale systems.
• Proficient in Infrastructure as Code and CI/CD platforms.

Responsibilities

• Build a greenfield SRE practice for financial applications.
• Collaborate with development and infrastructure teams.
• Design and implement observability and automation solutions.

Skills

Site Reliability Engineering

DevOps

Platform Engineering

AWS (EKS, ECS)

Infrastructure as Code (Terraform)

CI/CD tools (GitHub Actions, Harness)

Python

Kubernetes

Observability solutions (Dynatrace, CloudWatch, Prometheus)

Incident response

Job description

Optomi, in partnership with a leading global financial services organization, is seeking an experienced Senior Site Reliability Engineers (SRE) to join a newly formed Application Reliability team. These are contract to hire positions with a strong preference for candidates in the Dallas/Fort Worth or Plano, TX area (hybrid schedule).

What the Right Professional Will Enjoy:

• Playing a foundational role in building a greenfield SRE practice focused on mission-critical financial applications
• Working in a highly collaborative environment alongside development, product, and infrastructure teams to drive measurable reliability improvements
• Opportunity to design and implement cutting-edge observability, automation, and self-healing capabilities at scale
• Mentoring engineers and influencing modern reliability practices across the enterprise

Apply today if your background includes:

• 5+ years in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, Platform Engineering, or equivalent production engineering roles
• Hands‑on experience designing, building, and maintaining large‑scale, highly available systems in AWS (EKS, ECS, or similar)
• Proven expertise with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) and modern CI/CD platforms (GitHub Actions, Harness, ArgoCD, or equivalent)
• Strong programming and automation skills with Python (or similar) for operational tooling and runbooks
• Deep experience with container orchestration (Kubernetes/EKS highly preferred) and cloud‑native ecosystems
• Track record of implementing observability solutions (Dynatrace, CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, etc.) that drive actionable insights
• Solid understanding of SLOs, error budgets, SLAs, and blameless post‑incident processes
• Demonstrated ability to lead major incident response, root cause analysis, and preventive remediation efforts
• Experience embedding reliability practices into application architecture and development lifecycles

Preferred Qualifications:

• Familiarity with GitOps workflows, secrets management (HashiCorp Vault, AWS Secrets Manager), and advanced monitoring/alerting best practices
• History of building self‑healing and automated remediation systems