Senior SRE – Application Performance Monitoring (Contract)

Breed Staffing; Los Angeles (CA); Remote; USD 138,000 - 207,000; Part time

Job summary

GPL Technologies is seeking a senior Site Reliability Engineer for a 3–6 month remote contract with a major visual effects studio. You will lead the next phase of observability by extending incident-response workflows from core infrastructure to production applications and services.

The role requires meeting with application teams to document monitoring tools, presenting findings, and guiding PoC plans, with a remote-first setup across the US/Canada.

Qualifications

• 5+ years senior SRE/DevOps experience with focus on monitoring and incident response.
• Experience with SaaS or on‑prem monitoring stacks (Datadog, Dynatrace, ELK, Grafana, Prometheus).
• Proven ability to map monitoring to incident response processes.

Responsibilities

• Meet with application teams to document monitoring, logging and APM usage.
• Present findings and timelines to stakeholders in weekly check-ins.
• Collaborate with infrastructure SRE to integrate app monitoring into incident response.
• Propose PoC options with cost estimates for platforms or multiple tools.
• Support PoC or implementation as scope allows.

Skills

Site Reliability Engineering

DevOps

Application performance monitoring

Centralized logging

Tracing

Alerting to incident response

Tools

Datadog

Dynatrace

Elastic/ELK

Logz.io

Grafana

Prometheus

Job description

About The Opportunity

GPL Technologies is looking for a senior Site Reliability Engineer for a 3–6 month remote contract with a large, well-known visual effects studio, with a possible extension. You'll lead the next phase of the studio's observability program: extending a proven incident-response process from infrastructure to production applications and services.

The infrastructure phase is complete. Your job is to learn how application teams monitor their services today, then recommend how to streamline monitoring and fold application incidents into the existing response workflow.

What you'll do

• Meet with each application team to document which monitoring, logging and APM tools they use and how they use them
• Present discovery findings and timeline updates to stakeholders in weekly check-ins
• Work alongside the studio's infrastructure SRE to plan how application monitoring fits the current incident-response process and culture
• Recommend solutions for a proof-of-concept phase, whether one platform or several, with estimated platform and service costs
• Support the proof-of-concept or implementation phase that follows, as scope allows

What you bring

• Senior-level experience in Site Reliability Engineering and/or DevOps, with a heavy focus on application performance monitoring, centralized logging and tracing
• Hands-on work with SaaS or on-prem platforms such as Datadog, Dynatrace, Elastic/ELK, Logz.io, Grafana or Prometheus
• Experience connecting application alerts to an incident-response process
• Clear, responsive communication with technical and non-technical teams
• Friendly but assertive follow-through: you can get information and move actions forward across many teams in a large organization

Nice to have

• Zabbix and/or PagerDuty experience
• Visual effects, animation or media production background
• Experience running discovery or assessment engagements as a consultant

Engagement details

ItemDetailTypeProject-based 1099 independent contractor, engaged by GPL TechnologiesTerm3–6 months, possible extensionStartNovember 1, 2026Rate$100-$150 per hour depending on experienceSchedule24 hrs/week, Tue–Thu, likely to ramp up (up to 40 hrs/week) in later phasesLocationFully remote; US or Canada, Los Angeles or Vancouver preferred