Senior Site Reliability Engineer - AWS & Observability

Dice

Illinois

Hybrid

USD 120,000 - 160,000

Full time

14 days+

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Job summary

Dice is seeking an experienced Site Reliability Engineer in Riverwoods, IL (hybrid - 2 to 3 days onsite). The role emphasizes building resiliency for payment apps, end-to-end observability, and SRE-driven automation.

The contractor will partner with application teams and other SREs to implement SLAs, capacity planning, and DR strategies. The ideal candidate has 12+ years of experience with AWS, Linux, on‑prem deployments, and strong skills in Python/Java, plus Datadog, Grafana, and Kibana.

Qualifications

Professional experience as an SRE.
Experience in performance testing and NFT automation tests.
Experience with AWS Cloud, Linux and on‑prem deployments.
Strong observability and APM skills, preferably Datadog.
Experience with Grafana and Kibana dashboards.
Programming in Python, shell scripting, or Java.

Responsibilities

Partner with Application Dev teams to build resiliency for Payment applications.
Partner with our Application Develop teams to implement service level objectives.
Partner with other SREs to build out end to end observability.
Implement monitoring, alerting and dashboards needed for our apps.
Automate operational processes.
Help develop capacity and performance management tools.
Help define the DR plan for critical apps.
Help develop a chaos testing process.
Participate in an on-call rotation and support production incidents