Senior Site Reliability Engineer - Cloud & Automation Lead

Jobtailor; Arizona; On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Jobtailor in the United States is seeking a senior Site Reliability Engineer with 15+ years of experience to lead reliability across services, drive incidents response, and set standards in observability, automation, and cloud architectures.

You will collaborate with Software Engineering teams to improve SLIs/SLOs, implement CI/CD and IaC, and reduce toil through reusable patterns while ensuring production readiness.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of professional experience in software engineering, SRE, or related fields.
• Bachelor's degree in CS or a related technical field.

Responsibilities

• Apply software engineering, automation, and DevOps to improve how services are built, tested, deployed, observed, operated, and recovered.
• Use data, evidence, experimentation, and engineering analysis to identify reliability risks and guide decisions.
• Define, implement, or improve SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, and service-health measures.
• Improve observability through metrics, logging, tracing, monitoring, alerting, dashboards, and instrumentation.
• Drive CI/CD, IaC, automation, testing, incident response, capacity management, resilience, and operational readiness.
• Identify recurring or systemic production issues and translate experience into code, architecture, tooling, and practices.
• Partner with software teams to improve reliability, resiliency, scalability, performance, observability, recoverability, and on-call operations.
• Participate in or lead incident response and blameless post-incident learning.
• Provide enterprise-level technical leadership for critical production incidents and impact engineering practices.
• Reduce operational toil through reusable patterns and automation.
• Establish enterprise direction and multiply engineering capability.

Skills

15+ years exp

AWS

CI/CD

SLIs/SLOs

Incident management

Observability

Automation

Distributed systems

Cloud architectures

Scripting

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering

Tools

CI/CD Tools

Monitoring Tools

Logging Tools

Dashboards

Containers

Orchestration

Job description

Jobtailor in the United States is seeking a senior Site Reliability Engineer with 15+ years of experience to lead reliability across services, drive incidents response, and set standards in observability, automation, and cloud architectures.

You will collaborate with Software Engineering teams to improve SLIs/SLOs, implement CI/CD and IaC, and reduce toil through reusable patterns while ensuring production readiness.