Senior SRE & Observability Architect (Remote/Hybrid)

The Judge Group

Chicago (IL)

Hybrid

USD 140,000 - 210,000

Full time

14 days+

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Job summary

The Judge Group seeks a Senior Site Reliability Engineer / Observability Specialist to lead the client's reliability architecture and observability strategy in a hybrid US-based role. This position blends hands-on implementation with coaching across Azure and AWS, building New Relic instrumentation and Terraform modules while driving incident management disciplines and SLO/SLI governance.

If you thrive in engineering-first consulting and want to shape production reliability at scale, this role

Qualifications

7+ years in SRE/DevOps with enterprise cloud scale and production reliability.
Observability mastery with New Relic (NRQL, Synthetics, APM) and defining actionable SLOs/SLIs.
Strong IaC & automation with Terraform and PowerShell in Windows and Linux environments.
Cloud & CI/CD expertise in Azure DevOps or Octopus Deploy pipelines.
Experience designing on-call rotations, runbooks, and incident response operations.

Responsibilities

Build and optimize New Relic instrumentation (NRQL, APM, Logs) across multi-cloud to streamline metrics collection.
Author and maintain Terraform modules to manage monitoring configurations and alert pipelines.
Establish incident response foundations with Incident.IO, Slack/OpsGenie integrations, and automated escalation.
Define and govern actionable SLOs/SLIs and optimize log ingestion costs to reduce alert fatigue.
Partner with platform and product teams through hands-on coaching and post-incident reviews.