Senior SRE: Lead Reliability & Observability (Remote)

Centene Corp.; United States; Hybrid; USD 87,000 - 161,000; Full time

Job summary

Centene Corp. is seeking a seasoned Site Reliability Engineer to lead projects focused on optimizing platform reliability, performance, and security using SRE practices.

You will drive observability initiatives, manage incidents, and guide teams through CI/CD deployment and validation cycles. The role requires a Bachelor’s degree in a quantitative or business field and 4–6 years of related experience, with hands-on experience in Linux, cloud platforms, monitoring tools, and databases.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a quantitative or business field and 4–6 years of related experience.
• Or equivalent experience reflecting the level of this position.

Responsibilities

• Troubleshoots and resolves complex problems with systems and services and initiates regular deployment of new versions.
• Leads complex projects focused on building observability/monitoring for the application and monitoring KPIs.
• Helps decide on system validation, testing, and standing up new services/tools.
• Identifies strategies to increase reliability and performance through on-call rotation and process optimization.
• Leads engineers in stress, security, and performance testing.
• Resolves issues from support escalations.
• Keeps runbooks up to date and documents post-incident reviews.

Skills

Observability tools

CI/CD tools

Linux

Public cloud

Databases

Monitoring

Programming

Git repositories

Incident response

Education

Bachelor's degree in quantitative or business field

Tools

Splunk

Dynatrace

Elastic

New Relic

Prometheus

Grafana

Ansible

Jenkins

Cloud platforms (AWS/Azure)

Job description

Centene Corp. is seeking a seasoned Site Reliability Engineer to lead projects focused on optimizing platform reliability, performance, and security using SRE practices.

You will drive observability initiatives, manage incidents, and guide teams through CI/CD deployment and validation cycles. The role requires a Bachelor’s degree in a quantitative or business field and 4–6 years of related experience, with hands-on experience in Linux, cloud platforms, monitoring tools, and databases.