Senior Site Reliability Engineer Observability & Automation

Artha Nexgen; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 156,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Contract 7 months

Onsite 4 days/week

Remote 2 days

Job summary

BCforward is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer III to design, build, and support tooling, automation frameworks, and observability capabilities for critical trading and business services. The role emphasizes SRE best practices, operational efficiency, and reliability improvements.

The position starts onsite four days per week for six months, then shifts to three onsite and two remote days. The candidate will contribute to CI/CD and cloud modernization efforts, working with multiple teams to

Qualifications

• Strong Linux administration and troubleshooting.
• Proficiency in Python and Shell scripting or similar automation languages.
• Hands-on experience with observability platforms such as Dynatrace, Splunk, Grafana, and Prometheus.
• Experience implementing monitoring, alerting, and operational dashboards.
• Incident management, production support, and root cause analysis expertise.
• Experience integrating systems via APIs and service interfaces.
• Knowledge of cloud platforms and distributed systems architecture.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation.
• Understanding of database technologies such as MySQL and MongoDB, and familiarity with Node.js.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and debugging skills.
• Experience in a Site Reliability Engineering organization with cross-team collaboration.
• Hands-on experience defining and implementing SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain SRE tooling, automation frameworks, and engineering utilities.
• Implement and optimize observability using platforms such as Dynatrace, Splunk, Grafana, and Prometheus.
• Define and operationalize SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets to improve service reliability.
• Build monitoring, alerting, and operational dashboards to support production excellence.
• Lead and support incident management, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement actions.
• Integrate systems and services through APIs and service interfaces to streamline workflows.
• Contribute to CI/CD pipeline design and deployment automation for reliable releases.
• Partner with application, infrastructure, and production support teams to embed SRE practices.
• Conduct reliability engineering, resiliency assessments, and operational readiness reviews.
• Support cloud migration and modernization programs with reliable architectures.

Skills

Linux administration

Python scripting

Dynatrace

Prometheus

Grafana

CI/CD pipelines

APIs integration

Cloud platforms

MySQL

MongoDB

OpenTelemetry

Tools

Kubernetes

Terraform

Ansible

OpenShift

Job description

BCforward is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer III to design, build, and support tooling, automation frameworks, and observability capabilities for critical trading and business services. The role emphasizes SRE best practices, operational efficiency, and reliability improvements.

The position starts onsite four days per week for six months, then shifts to three onsite and two remote days. The candidate will contribute to CI/CD and cloud modernization efforts, working with multiple teams to