Site Reliability Engineer

Doran Jones Inc.; Charlotte (NC); Remote; USD 100,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is looking for a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to join their dynamic DevOps team. This remote role offers a high-impact opportunity to enhance the reliability and performance of critical cloud-based infrastructure for global financial institutions. You will monitor production systems, automate operations, and collaborate with international teams to optimize system architecture. If you are passionate about technology and eager to make a significant impact in a fast-paced environment, this position is perfect for you.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience with Linux system administration, preferably RHEL or Rocky Linux.
• In-depth experience with AWS cloud infrastructure and services.

Responsibilities

• Monitor production systems to ensure high availability, performance, and reliability.
• Automate routine operational tasks and deployments.

Skills

Linux System Administration

Incident Response

Analytical Skills

AWS Cloud Infrastructure

Problem-Solving

Communication Skills

Agile Environment

Tools

AWS EC2

AWS S3

AWS Lambda

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.