Senior SRE: Observability & Reliability Leader (Remote)

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

Job summary

Centene Corp. in Missouri seeks an experienced Site Reliability Engineer to lead projects that improve platform performance, reliability, and security using SRE practices.

You will develop complex services to automate monitoring, lead deployment processes, and guide incident response, contributing to scalable, observable systems. The role requires collaboration with development teams, on-call leadership, and ongoing SDLC optimization to prevent disruptions.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in quantitative or business field and 4–6 years of related experience.
• Experience with Linux/Unix and Windows operating systems.
• Familiarity with observability tools and CI/CD pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Troubleshoots complex system problems and deploys new versions.
• Builds and maintains observability/monitoring for applications.
• Guides SDLC enhancements to boost reliability.
• Leads on-call rotation and incident response.
• Documents runbooks and post-incident reviews.
• Coordinates with development teams to resolve issues.

Skills

Observability tooling

Linux/Unix/Windows

Monitoring tools

CI/CD pipelines

Public cloud services

SQL databases

Git repositories

ITSM tools

Education

Bachelor's degree in quantitative or business field

Tools

Splunk/Dynatrace/Elastic/New Relic/Prometheus/Grafana

Ansible/Jenkins/OpenShift

AWS/Azure

MongoDB/MySQL/Oracle/PL SQL/SQL

GitLab/Bitbucket/Subversion

ServiceNow/Atlassian/BMC

Job description

Centene Corp. in Missouri seeks an experienced Site Reliability Engineer to lead projects that improve platform performance, reliability, and security using SRE practices.

You will develop complex services to automate monitoring, lead deployment processes, and guide incident response, contributing to scalable, observable systems. The role requires collaboration with development teams, on-call leadership, and ongoing SDLC optimization to prevent disruptions.