Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Madison-Davis; New York (NY); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Madison-Davis, LLC seeks a hands-on Senior Site Reliability Engineer to strengthen infrastructure reliability and build automation solutions. The role blends software engineering with cloud and platform expertise to design scalable solutions, improve monitoring, and guide incident practices across teams.

You will apply AI to practical engineering challenges, troubleshoot complex systems, and provide senior technical leadership while delivering concrete improvements in reliability and performance.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of SRE, infrastructure, or platform engineering experience.
• Strong Python and/or Go development skills.
• Demonstrable experience applying AI to real engineering problems.
• GitOps and Infrastructure as Code experience.
• Production Kubernetes and cloud infrastructure expertise.
• AWS preferred; comparable GCP or Azure acceptable.
• Deep Linux and operating-system troubleshooting.
• Strong networking fundamentals.
• Proven observability and infrastructure-automation experience.
• Ability to independently deliver complex technical solutions and partner with multiple engineering teams.
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.

Responsibilities

• Build automation solutions and internal engineering tools using Python or Go.
• Design and improve observability systems, including monitoring, metrics, logging, tracing, and alerting.
• Engineer reliable cloud infrastructure and Kubernetes-based platforms.
• Implement GitOps and Infrastructure as Code practices.
• Troubleshoot complex Linux, application, networking, and container issues.
• Identify reliability gaps and implement preventive engineering improvements.
• Apply AI to solve operational or infrastructure challenges.
• Participate in architecture reviews, documentation, technical mentoring, and incident-response improvements.

Skills

Python

Go

AI for ops

Observability

Linux troubleshooting

Networking fundamentals

GitOps

Infrastructure as Code

Kubernetes

Cloud (AWS)

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in CS

Tools

Kubernetes

AWS

Terraform

Pulumi

CloudFormation

Ansible

Helm

Job description

A healthcare technology organization is seeking a hands-on Senior Site Reliability Engineer to strengthen infrastructure reliability, build automation solutions, and improve technology operations. This role combines software engineering with cloud and platform expertise. The successful candidate will design scalable technical solutions, improve monitoring and incident practices, troubleshoot complex systems, and apply AI to solve practical engineering challenges. The position requires someone who enjoys personally building solutions while providing senior technical guidance across infrastructure and engineering teams.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Build automation solutions and internal engineering tools using Python or Go.
• Design and improve observability systems, including monitoring, metrics, logging, tracing, and alerting.
• Engineer reliable cloud infrastructure and Kubernetes-based platforms.
• Implement GitOps and Infrastructure as Code practices.
• Troubleshoot complex Linux, application, networking, and container issues.
• Identify reliability gaps and implement preventive engineering improvements.
• Apply AI to solve operational or infrastructure challenges.
• Participate in architecture reviews, documentation, technical mentoring, and incident-response improvements.

Role Requirements

• 5+ years of relevant SRE, infrastructure, or platform engineering experience.
• Strong Python and/or Go development skills.
• Demonstrable experience applying AI to real engineering problems.
• GitOps and Infrastructure as Code experience.
• Production Kubernetes and cloud infrastructure expertise.
• AWS preferred;comparable GCP or Azure experience acceptable.
• Deep Linux and operating-system troubleshooting.
• Strong networking fundamentals.
• Proven observability and infrastructure-automation experience.
• Ability to independently deliver complex technical solutions and partner with multiple engineering teams.
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.

PREFERRED EXPERIENCE

• EKS and Helm.
• Terraform, Pulumi, CloudFormation, or Ansible experience.
• Service meshes and advanced network traffic management.
• Container security and secrets-management familiarity.
• Application-stack troubleshooting experience.