Senior SRE: Observability & Reliability Leader

Centene Corp.; Texas; On-site; USD 87,000 - 161,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401K

Stock purchase plan

Tuition reimbursement

Paid time off

Flexible work schedules

Job summary

Centene is seeking an experienced Senior SRE to lead complex efforts in platform reliability, performance, and security. You will guide deployment of new versions, drive observability initiatives, and mentor engineers across incident response and post-incident analysis.

The role emphasizes collaborating with development teams, optimizing SDLC processes, and ensuring scalable, fault-tolerant systems. Strong scripting and cloud experience are expected.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a quantitative or business field with 4–6 years of related experience.
• Experience with Linux/Unix and observability/monitoring tools.
• Familiarity with CI/CD tools and cloud platforms (AWS/Azure).
• Strong incident management and root-cause analysis skills.

Responsibilities

• Troubleshoots and resolves complex problems with systems and services and deploys new versions.
• Leads projects to build/maintain observability, monitors KPIs, maintains alerting, and improves visibility.
• Decides on system validation, service monitoring, and standing up new tools/services.
• Identifies reliability improvements through on-call rotation and process optimization.
• Keeps runbooks and documentation up to date for new incidents.
• Leads post-incident reviews and documents findings for future decisions.
• Reviews SDLC proposals to boost service reliability and decides which to move forward.

Skills

Linux/Unix

Observability tools

CI/CD tools

Public cloud (AWS/Azure)

SQL/DBMS

Git repositories

SRE fundamentals

Incident management

Education

Bachelor's degree in quantitative or business field

Tools

Splunk

Dynatrace

Elastic

New Relic

Prometheus

Grafana

Ansible

Jenkins

CloudBees

OpenShift

AWS

Azure

GitLab

Bitbucket

Subversion

ServiceNow

Atlassian

BMC

Job description

Centene is seeking an experienced Senior SRE to lead complex efforts in platform reliability, performance, and security. You will guide deployment of new versions, drive observability initiatives, and mentor engineers across incident response and post-incident analysis.

The role emphasizes collaborating with development teams, optimizing SDLC processes, and ensuring scalable, fault-tolerant systems. Strong scripting and cloud experience are expected.