Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Hybrid (10+ yrs)

StradIT; Jersey City (NJ); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

StradIT is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to advance production reliability, observability, and automation across applications in production. The role spans collaborating with development, release management, and operations to drive reliability and standardized practices.

Responsibilities include defining resilience requirements, improving monitoring, and contributing to incident response and disaster recovery planning.

Qualifications

• This role requires at least 10 years of related experience across application support engineering, software engineering, SRE, or production operations.
• Bachelor’s degree preferred or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience supporting business-critical applications in production environments.
• SRE, observability, automation, or ITIL certifications are a plus.

Responsibilities

• Participate in design reviews, sprint zero, and delivery planning to define and validate reliability requirements.
• Collaborate with release management to ensure releases meet SRE standards for observability and reliability.
• Define and improve monitoring, dashboards, telemetry, and alert strategies.
• Assist in major incident response and root cause analysis to close observability gaps.
• Drive automation and AI-assisted remediation to reduce toil and accelerate recovery.
• Serve as the operational readiness authority before production releases.
• Lead capacity and performance analyses to ensure scalable applications.
• Track reliability metrics such as availability, incident volume, and change failure rate.
• Prepare executive reporting on reliability posture and readiness.
• Mentor teams to promote SRE practices and approved AI tools.

Skills

SRE practices

Observability

Automation

Incident response

Disaster recovery

Performance testing

Release readiness

Programming (Python/Java/Go/PowerShell

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Tools

Monitoring platforms

Dashboards

Telemetry

Log analysis

Metrics & traces

Job description

StradIT is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to advance production reliability, observability, and automation across applications in production. The role spans collaborating with development, release management, and operations to drive reliability and standardized practices.

Responsibilities include defining resilience requirements, improving monitoring, and contributing to incident response and disaster recovery planning.