Senior SRE & Observability Lead — New Relic, Terraform

The Judge Group; Illinois; Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive Salary

Equity

Comprehensive Benefits

Job summary

The Judge Group is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer / Observability Specialist to lead reliability architecture in a hybrid US role. Based in the Greater Chicago Area with 2-3 days on-site in the Loop, you will own observability, IaC, and incident management across Azure and AWS.

You will partner with platform and product teams, set SLOs/SLIs, optimize log costs, and drive CI/CD automation using Terraform, New Relic, and related tools. Extensive cloud experience required.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in SRE/DevOps in high-availability environments.
• Expert-level New Relic skills (NRQL, APM, Logs) and defining actionable SLOs/SLIs.
• Advanced Terraform and PowerShell scripting in Windows and Linux.
• Azure cloud services, Azure DevOps or Octopus Deploy pipelines.
• Experience designing on-call rotations, runbooks, and incident response tooling.

Responsibilities

• Build and optimize observability instrumentation (New Relic) across multi-cloud environments.
• Author and maintain Terraform modules for monitoring configurations and alert pipelines.
• Establish incident architecture with automation to reduce MTTD/MTTR.
• Define actionable SLOs/SLIs and manage error budgets across teams.
• Coach platform teams through PIRs and CI/CD automation.

Skills

SRE/DevOps experience

Observability mastery

IaC & automation

Cloud & CI/CD

Incident management

Tools

New Relic

Terraform

PowerShell

Azure DevOps

Octopus Deploy

Incident.IO

PagerDuty

OpsGenie

Job description

The Judge Group is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer / Observability Specialist to lead reliability architecture in a hybrid US role. Based in the Greater Chicago Area with 2-3 days on-site in the Loop, you will own observability, IaC, and incident management across Azure and AWS.

You will partner with platform and product teams, set SLOs/SLIs, optimize log costs, and drive CI/CD automation using Terraform, New Relic, and related tools. Extensive cloud experience required.