Site Reliability Engineer

Doran Jones; Charlotte (NC); Remote; USD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to enhance the reliability and performance of critical production systems for global financial institutions. This remote role offers the chance to work with cutting-edge cloud infrastructure and collaborate with international teams in a fast-paced environment. You will be responsible for monitoring systems, automating tasks, and optimizing performance, all while ensuring security best practices are followed. If you are passionate about technology and eager to make a significant impact, this opportunity is perfect for you.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in Linux system administration with a focus on reliability.
• Strong hands-on experience with AWS and cloud infrastructure services.
• Ability to troubleshoot complex system issues and optimize performance.

Responsibilities

• Monitor production systems for high availability and performance.
• Automate operational tasks and infrastructure maintenance.
• Collaborate with teams to improve system architecture and deployment.

Skills

Linux System Administration

Incident Response

Analytical Skills

AWS Cloud Infrastructure

Monitoring Tools

Communication Skills

Agile Environment

Troubleshooting

Education

AWS SysOps Associate Certification

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

CloudWatch

Datadog

Job description

Doran Jones is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to join a high-performing DevOps team that supports critical infrastructure for a global financial technology company. This team leads securities finance applications for a client base comprising investment banks, agent lenders, and hedge funds.

Due to our rapidly growing customer base, we are seeking a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to join our client’s DevOps team. This role is a high-impact opportunity to work on critical production systems used by global financial institutions. You’ll contribute to the reliability, scalability, and performance of our cloud-based infrastructure, collaborating with international teams in a dynamic, fast-paced environment.

This is a remote role working EST business hours, with participation in an on-call rotation, including some weekends.

Responsibilities

• Monitor production systems to ensure high availability, performance, and reliability.
• Respond to and resolve incidents promptly.
• Automate routine operational tasks, deployments, and infrastructure maintenance.
• Identify performance bottlenecks and work with engineering teams to optimize application and infrastructure performance.
• Participate in capacity planning and system scaling strategies.
• Ensure systems are secure by design and work closely with internal teams to address vulnerabilities and enforce best practices.
• Collaborate with DevOps and Engineering teams to improve system architecture and deployment pipelines.
• Document processes, runbooks, and best practices for knowledge sharing and operational continuity.

Required Experience

• Strong hands-on experience with Linux system administration, preferably RHEL or Rocky Linux.
• Experience working in production environments with a focus on reliability and incident response.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills; ability to troubleshoot complex system issues.
• In-depth experience with AWS cloud infrastructure and services, including, but not limited to, EC2, ECS, S3, RDS, Lambda, CloudWatch, Athena, and Systems Manager.
• Familiarity with monitoring and alerting tools (e.g., CloudWatch, Datadog, or similar).
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to interact effectively with both technical teams and clients.
• Ability to work independently and manage tasks in a fast-paced Agile environment.

Preferred Experience

• AWS SysOps Associate certification.
• Familiarity with CI/CD tools and Git-based workflows.
• Experience using Terraform (ability to read and interpret code).
• Experience using Ansible for configuration management.
• Basic scripting skills in Python or other scripting languages.

Doran Jones Inc. (DJI) is the leading financial services Data Engineering and Application Development firm, specializing in Capital Markets, Risk, and Regulatory Compliance. We are US-based, helping our clients fill gaps in capacity and expertise, reduce risk, and accelerate change. Our leaders average over 25 years of experience in Financial Services and Technology. DJI is repeatedly engaged by the largest and most complex clients for our Agile transformation expertise and practical understanding of the critical relationship between data, architecture, and application development.

DJI has a mission to place more people from non-traditional backgrounds into sustainable technology careers. Through partnerships with non-profit technology programs in underserved communities and Veteran organizations, candidates transition from tech training programs into real IT careers at DJI. Our unique recruitment policy allows us to create exceptional teams, bringing a broad spectrum of experience to our company and creating anything but a traditional consulting firm.

DJI is a wholly-owned subsidiary of McLaren Strategic Ventures, a private equity firm, that invests in start-ups and scale-ups. They provide a full range of highly trusted domain consulting, advisory services, and innovative technologies globally. Doran Jones is able to offer a broad range of technology, deeper AI and machine learning tools, data intelligence, alternative resourcing capabilities, and capital access to invest and digitize at scale. Our clients benefit from this unique portfolio allowing them to accelerate the pace of their own digital transformations through innovative products and services designed around industry-wide issues.

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