Senior Site Reliability Engineer – Google Distributed Cloud Edge (Edge SRE)

CoSourcing Partners - Enterprise-AI and IT Services Company; Chicago (IL); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

A technology services company is seeking an Edge Site Reliability Engineer to lead the design and automation of Google Distributed Cloud Edge environments. The ideal candidate will have strong networking fundamentals and hands-on experience with Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, and monitoring tools. You'll define automation principles, collaborate across teams for security and performance, and drive initiatives to improve reliability. This hybrid position is located in Chicago, IL and offers a full-time employment type.

Qualifications

• Strong expertise in networking fundamentals (TCP/IP, BGP, DNS) and carrier-grade environments.
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes administration and CI/CD pipelines.
• Deep experience in monitoring/observability tools such as Prometheus and Grafana.

Responsibilities

• Define and implement automation principles for edge compute provisioning.
• Collaborate with security teams to implement protection and secure policies.
• Lead incident response efforts and root cause analysis.

Skills

Networking fundamentals (TCP/IP, BGP, DNS)

Kubernetes administration

CI/CD pipelines

Infrastructure as Code (Terraform)

GCP (preferred) and/or AWS

Monitoring/observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, New Relic)

Automation and tooling initiatives

Communication and leadership skills

Job description

Recruitment Specialist @ CoSourcing Partners | AI and IT Recruitment

Location: Hybrid – Chicago, IL (preferred)

Employment Type: W2, Contract to Hire, Direct Hire

Overview

Our client is seeking a highly skilled Edge Site Reliability Engineer (Edge SRE) to lead the design, automation, and operations of Google Distributed Cloud Edge (GDCE) environments. This role combines deep expertise in cloud-native platforms, networking, and automation with a strong focus on performance, reliability, and scalability at the edge. The ideal candidate thrives in complex, distributed systems and is experienced at bridging platform engineering with application, network, and security teams.

Key Responsibilities

• Define and implement automation principles for edge compute provisioning and application deployments.
• Design and optimize intelligent caching, traffic steering, and edge routing strategies to reduce latency and maximize performance.
• Collaborate with security teams to implement DDoS protection, bot mitigation, and secure TLS termination policies.
• Develop monitoring, alerting, and observability frameworks (real-time + historical) for latency, traffic, and system health.
• Lead incident response efforts, including root cause analysis and blameless post-mortems.
• Partner with application, network, security, and platform teams to ensure edge systems integrate seamlessly with core infrastructure.
• Drive automation initiatives to reduce operational toil and improve system efficiency.
• Build tools, dashboards, and data pipelines to monitor service performance and identify bottlenecks.
• Establish and champion KPIs that measure reliability, scalability, and overall success of the edge practice.
• Serve as a thought leader in advancing edge operations aligned with business goals.

Skills & Qualifications

• Strong expertise in networking fundamentals (TCP/IP, BGP, DNS) and carrier-grade environments.
• Hands‑on experience with Kubernetes administration, CI/CD pipelines, and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform).
• Proven background in GCP (preferred) and/or AWS cloud infrastructure.
• Deep experience in monitoring/observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, New Relic, etc.).
• Demonstrated success driving automation and tooling initiatives to improve reliability and reduce toil.
• Prior experience guiding or leading Operations/SRE teams in large‑scale, multinational environments.
• Exceptional communication, leadership, and cross‑functional collaboration skills.

Seniority level

• Not Applicable

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Information Technology

Industries

• Information Services