Senior SRE: Automation‑Driven Cloud Reliability Leader

Zelis Healthcare, LLC

Morris Township (NJ)

On-site

USD 150,000 - 190,000

Full time

6 days ago

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Job summary

Zelis is seeking a highly skilled Senior/Lead Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to join our SRE team. The role emphasizes automation, reliability, and scalable solutions, combining software engineering with production operations and cloud experience.

Ideal candidates bring deep PowerShell and .NET/C# expertise, strong AWS knowledge, and hands-on observability with New Relic and Splunk. You will drive reliability, dashboards, and proactive incident prevention across complex systems.

Qualifications

Strong automation and software engineering background.
Experience with PowerShell, .NET/C# in production.
Hands-on with AWS and observability tooling (New Relic, Splunk).

Responsibilities

Champion SRE principles and best practices across the tech org.
Establish and improve SLIs/SLOs and reliability measurements.
Identify systemic reliability risks and develop engineering solutions.
Reduce manual toil through automation and self-healing capabilities.
Collaborate with application, infrastructure, cloud, and security teams to improve readiness.
Drive continuous improvement with measurable reliability and performance outcomes.
Design, develop, and maintain advanced PowerShell scripts, automation frameworks, and tooling.
Troubleshoot and optimize .NET/C# enterprise applications.
Analyze application behavior and performance to identify issues.
Partner with engineering teams to improve reliability, logging, and ops supportability.
Develop reusable automation to reduce manual intervention.
Integrate automation into CI/CD pipelines.
Serve as SME in New Relic and Splunk and drive adoption of observability practices.
Design and improve APM, monitoring, logging, and alerting.
Develop dashboards and service health indicators for actionable insights.
Analyze telemetry, logs, metrics, and traces to identify bottlenecks.
Improve proactive detection and reduce alert fatigue.
Support enterprise observability standardization.
Optimize telemetry to balance visibility and cost.
Support production workloads in AWS and partner with cloud teams.
Identify opportunities to optimize resources and costs.
Promote IaC, automated deployments, and repeatable infra management.
Provide technical leadership during incidents and perform root cause analysis.