Site Reliability Engineer – NO H1’s / NO C2C
Location: Englewood, NJ
Duration: 12+ Months Contract
Work Arrangement: Onsite
Job Overview
We are looking for an experienced Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to support and improve the reliability, performance, and observability of high-traffic digital platforms. The ideal candidate will have strong experience with cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, monitoring, automation, and production support across web, mobile, and OTT environments.
Key Responsibilities
- Support and enhance observability, including monitoring, logging, and alerting across production systems.
- Help define and maintain SLIs/SLOs for critical services.
- Evaluate services for production readiness.
- Work closely with development teams to identify reliability risks and improve system architecture.
- Automate operational processes, including CI/CD, incident response, and infrastructure provisioning.
- Participate in incident response and on-call rotations for critical services.
- Conduct post-incident analysis and drive continuous reliability improvements.
- Partner with security, infrastructure, and product teams to support performance, compliance, and operational excellence.
Must-Have Skills
- 5+ years of experience managing and supporting high-traffic digital platforms.
- Strong experience with CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation.
- Hands-on experience with AWS and/or GCP.
- Strong scripting skills using Python, Bash, and/or Groovy.
- Experience with observability and monitoring tools such as:
- Datadog
- New Relic
- AppDynamics
- Similar monitoring platforms
- Understanding of Web, Mobile, and OTT architectures.
- Experience supporting:
- Large-scale websites
- Mobile and OTT applications
- Microservices
- APIs
- Distributed systems
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as Terraform, Ansible, or Chef.
- Familiarity with performance testing tools such as JMeter or k6.
- Hands-on experience with debugging tools such as Charles Proxy or Fiddler.
- Willingness to work onsite and participate in a 24/7 on-call rotation as needed.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with CDNs, such as Akamai.
- Experience with reverse proxies such as NGINX or Varnish.
- Exposure to video streaming platforms.
- Familiarity with application and infrastructure security controls and best practices.
- Certifications in SRE, DevOps, or Performance Engineering are a plus.