Senior SRE - Scalable Cloud for Smart Transit

Electronic Transaction Consultants Corporation; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid time off

Health and dental plans

Retirement plans

EFAP

Employee referral program

Job summary

Quarterhill is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to join our growing team. This role focuses on reliability and performance of a cloud-native tolling platform processing transactions and payments around the clock.

You will lead incident response, implement SRE practices, and collaborate with software, infra, and operations teams to ensure highly available systems and scalable infrastructure.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering or DevOps.
• Hands-on cloud experience across AWS/Azure/GCP and orchestration (Kubernetes).
• Strong knowledge of monitoring, logging, and tracing stacks.
• Scripting skills in Python, Bash, or Go.
• Linux and Windows administration basics in production environments.
• Experience with relational databases and distributed systems.

Responsibilities

• System Reliability: Monitor and maintain health, availability, and performance.
• Incident Management: Lead response, RCA, and blameless post-incident reviews.
• Automation: Develop scripts to streamline operations and reduce toil.
• Monitoring & Performance: Set up Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, and alerts.
• Capacity Planning: Plan scaling for growing transaction volumes and distributed databases.
• Collaboration: Work with software, infrastructure, and operations teams.
• System Optimization: Identify bottlenecks across infra and applications.
• Continuous Improvement: Improve processes, docs, and SRE practices.
• Disaster Recovery: Design and test DR plans for critical services.

Skills

Cloud platforms AWS/Azure/GCP

Kubernetes

Monitoring & Observability

Scripting Python/Bash/Go

Linux/Windows administration

Relational databases

Tools

Docker

ELK stack

Grafana

Prometheus

OpenTelemetry

Datadog

Terraform

Ansible

Helm

Argo CD (GitOps)

Job description

Quarterhill is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to join our growing team. This role focuses on reliability and performance of a cloud-native tolling platform processing transactions and payments around the clock.

You will lead incident response, implement SRE practices, and collaborate with software, infra, and operations teams to ensure highly available systems and scalable infrastructure.