Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

PrincePerelson and Associates; Salt Lake City (UT); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work schedule (4 days in-office

Medical, dental, vision

Retirement plan

Generous paid time off

Parental leave

Wellness benefits

Job summary

PrincePerelson & Associates seeks a senior SRE/Platform Engineer to drive reliability across cloud-native apps in AWS and Kubernetes in a hybrid Salt Lake City environment.

You will define SLOs/SLIs, build observability pipelines, and lead incident response while collaborating with software and platform teams to deliver scalable, resilient infrastructure.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, Platform Engineering, DevOps, or similar infra-focused roles.
• Strong experience supporting production workloads in AWS and Kubernetes.
• Demonstrated success implementing SLOs, SLIs, and reliability engineering best practices.
• Experience designing observability solutions that provide actionable insights while minimizing operational noise.
• Strong Infrastructure as Code experience, preferably with Terraform.
• Experience automating operational workflows and building reusable engineering standards.
• Familiarity with distributed systems and modern data platforms (PostgreSQL, MongoDB, DynamoDB or similar).
• Experience with observability platforms such as Prometheus, Grafana, New Relic, CloudWatch, ELK, or similar.

Responsibilities

• Define and evolve SLOs and SLIs to align platform performance with customer and business expectations.
• Build and standardize monitoring, alerting, and observability using IaC (Terraform preferred).
• Develop scalable observability solutions leveraging metrics, logs, traces, and OpenTelemetry.
• Evaluate and implement modern observability platforms and integrations.
• Establish reliability standards for Kubernetes-based applications including scaling and deployment safety.
• Design automation to reduce manual effort and improve incident response.
• Lead high-severity incident response, drive postmortems, and measurable reliability improvements.
• Participate in an on-call rotation and reduce alert noise.
• Partner with software engineers and platform teams to build resilient cloud infrastructure.

Skills

SRE

Platform Eng

DevOps

AWS

Kubernetes

Terraform

Observability

Distributed systems

Incident response

Communication

Tools

Prometheus

Grafana

New Relic

CloudWatch

ELK

OpenTelemetry

Job description

What You'll Do

• Define and evolve Service Level Objectives (SLOs) and Service Level Indicators (SLIs) that align platform performance with customer and business expectations.
• Build and standardize monitoring, alerting, and observability practices across engineering teams using Infrastructure as Code (Terraform preferred).
• Develop scalable observability solutions leveraging metrics, logs, traces, and distributed tracing technologies such as OpenTelemetry.
• Evaluate and implement modern observability platforms and integrations, leading proof-of-concepts and defining adoption strategies.
• Establish reliability standards for Kubernetes-based applications, including scaling strategies, deployment safety, resource optimization, dashboards, and alerting.
• Design automation that reduces manual effort, streamline operations, and improves incident response and recovery.
• Lead high-severity incident response efforts, facilitate postmortems, and drive long-term reliability improvements through measurable action plans.
• Participate in an on-call rotation while continually improving monitoring quality and reducing unnecessary alert noise.
• Partner with software engineers and platform teams to build resilient, scalable cloud infrastructure and operational best practices.

What We're Looking For

• 7+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, Platform Engineering, DevOps, or a similar infrastructure-focused engineering role.
• Strong experience supporting production workloads in AWS and Kubernetes environments.
• Demonstrated success implementing SLOs, SLIs, and reliability engineering best practices.
• Experience designing observability solutions that provide actionable insights while minimizing operational noise.
• Strong Infrastructure as Code experience, preferably with Terraform.
• Experience automating operational workflows and building reusable engineering standards.
• Familiarity with distributed systems and modern data platforms including technologies such as PostgreSQL, MongoDB, DynamoDB, or similar.
• Experience with multiple observability platforms such as Prometheus, Grafana, New Relic, Splunk, CloudWatch, ELK, or comparable technologies.
• Strong troubleshooting and debugging skills across distributed production environments.
• Experience leading incident response and driving continuous operational improvements.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to influence engineering teams through collaboration, technical leadership, and practical solutions.

Why This Opportunity?

• Join a high-performing engineering organization where reliability is a strategic priority.
• Work with modern cloud-native technologies including AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, and OpenTelemetry.
• Influence engineering standards and platform architecture across multiple teams.
• Solve complex technical challenges at scale while helping shape the future of the platform.
• Collaborative hybrid environment with four days in the office and one remote day each week.
• Comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, vision, retirement plan, generous paid time off, parental leave, and additional wellness benefits.

PrincePerelson & Associates is an Equal Opportunity Employer and complies with all provisions of the EEO and ADA laws. We do not discriminate in our employment practices on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, sex (including sexual orientation and sexual identity), age, genetic information, parental status, military status, disability, or any non-merit-based factors or other federal, state, or locally protected class. All applicants applying for U.S. job openings must be authorized to work in the United States.