Senior Site Reliability Engineer LEAD

Nomiso; Scottsdale (AZ); On-site; USD 180,000 - 220,000; Full time

Job summary

Nomiso is seeking a highly experienced Senior Site Reliability Engineer Lead to lead the development and implementation of a comprehensive SRE program for one of our enterprise clients in Scottsdale. This hands-on leadership role focuses on improving application reliability, establishing observability and monitoring standards, reducing production incidents, and building scalable, resilient systems.

The ideal candidate combines deep SRE expertise with strong technical leadership and a track

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in SRE, DevOps, platform engineering or production engineering.
• Proven leadership of enterprise SRE initiatives and reliability practices.
• Strong knowledge of SLIs, SLOs, error budgets and incident management.
• Hands-on with monitoring, observability, tracing and alerting solutions.
• Deep understanding of distributed systems, resiliency and production troubleshooting.
• Experience with automation and engineering best practices.
• Excellent technical leadership, communication and problem-solving.
• Ability to work full-time onsite in Scottsdale, Arizona.

Responsibilities

• Lead design and implementation of SRE practices, standards and frameworks.
• Establish SLIs, SLOs and error-budget policies; partner with teams to hit reliability targets.
• Provide mentorship and best practices to SRE and development teams.
• Design standardized monitoring, logging, tracing and alerting architectures.
• Implement SRE tooling with Splunk, AppDynamics, ELK, Cribl, and OpenTelemetry.
• Drive blameless postmortems and ensure corrective actions are followed.
• Improve incident detection, mitigation and recovery times.
• Define production readiness reviews and runbooks.

Skills

SRE expertise

DevOps

Platform Engineering

Production Engineering

Tools

Splunk

AppDynamics

ELK

Cribl

OpenTelemetry

FireHydrant

Job description

Location: Scottsdale, Arizona - 100% Full-Time Onsite

Start Date: Immediately

About the Role

Nomiso is seeking a highly experienced Senior Site Reliability Engineer Lead to lead the development and implementation of a comprehensive Site Reliability Engineering practice for one of our enterprise clients.

This is a hands-on technical leadership opportunity focused on improving application reliability, establishing observability and monitoring standards, reducing production incidents, and building scalable, resilient systems.

The ideal candidate combines deep SRE expertise with strong technical leadership skills and a proven track record of implementing reliability engineering best practices across complex enterprise environments.

Key Responsibilities

SRE Strategy and Technical Leadership

• Lead the design and implementation of SRE practices, standards, and operational frameworks.
• Establish Service Level Indicators (SLIs), Service Level Objectives (SLOs), and error-budget policies.
• Partner with engineering leadership and application teams to define and improve reliability targets.
• Provide technical guidance, mentorship, and best practices to SRE and development teams.

Observability, Monitoring, and Alerting

• Design and standardize enterprise monitoring, logging, tracing, and alerting practices.
• Work with technologies including Splunk, AppDynamics, ELK, Cribl, and OpenTelemetry.
• Implement actionable, SLO-based alerting to reduce alert fatigue and improve incident detection.
• Lead observability architecture decisions and distributed tracing implementations.

Incident Management and Production Reliability

• Establish incident response standards, escalation procedures, and root cause analysis practices.
• Drive blameless postmortems and ensure corrective actions are implemented.
• Improve incident detection, mitigation, and recovery times.
• Define production readiness reviews, runbooks, and operational standards.

Resiliency and Automation

• Design strategies for improving application resilience, including retries, timeouts, circuit breakers, and graceful degradation.
• Identify and automate repetitive operational tasks to reduce manual intervention.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to improve system performance, stability, and scalability.
• Establish reliability metrics and dashboards to measure ongoing improvements.

Required Qualifications

• Extensive professional experience in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, Platform Engineering, or Production Engineering.
• Proven experience leading enterprise SRE initiatives and implementing reliability engineering practices.
• Strong knowledge of SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, and incident management.
• Hands-on experience with monitoring, observability, distributed tracing, and alerting solutions.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems, application resiliency, and production troubleshooting.
• Experience with operational automation and engineering best practices.
• Excellent technical leadership, communication, and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to work full-time onsite in Scottsdale, Arizona.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Splunk, AppDynamics, ELK, Cribl, FireHydrant, and OpenTelemetry.
• Experience establishing or transforming SRE practices within enterprise organizations.
• Experience with large-scale, high-availability, customer-facing applications.
• Telecommunications industry experience.
• Experience mentoring engineers and collaborating across multiple technical teams.

Why Join Nomiso?

At Nomiso, you'll have the opportunity to work on high-impact enterprise technology initiatives, collaborate with experienced engineering teams, and play a key role in building reliable, scalable technology platforms.

This position offers the opportunity to shape reliability engineering practices and make a measurable impact on enterprise application performance and operational excellence.