Site Reliability Engineer

Talentify; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Talentify is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer in Houston to own reliability, observability, and performance across distributed systems. You will lead incident response, design health checks, and drive postmortems while collaborating with developers to evolve architecture for scale.

The role requires 5+ years in SRE/DevOps, strong Kubernetes and AKKA.NET experience, and hands-on cloud and PostgreSQL skills.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in SRE, DevOps, or Infrastructure Engineering roles.
• Expertise in Kubernetes and container orchestration at scale.
• Strong experience with AKKA.NET or similar actor-based frameworks.
• Proficiency with scripting and automation (Bash, PowerShell, Python).
• Experience with observability tools (Phobos, Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, ELK).
• Hands-on experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
• Strong PostgreSQL knowledge—performance tuning, query optimization, maintenance.

Responsibilities

• Maintain and monitor production systems for availability, latency, and performance.
• Lead incident response efforts, including communication, resolution, and postmortem documentation.
• Design and implement health checks, alerting systems, and automated remediation workflows.
• Drive root cause analysis and implement permanent resolutions for recurring issues.
• Set up and maintain full observability stacks (logging, metrics, tracing).
• Tune and optimize distributed systems for performance and resource efficiency.
• Collaborate with developers to evolve architecture and improve throughput, latency, and stability.
• Design and maintain modern CI/CD pipelines and automate deployment, testing, rollback processes.

Skills

SRE experience

Kubernetes

AKKA.NET

Bash

PowerShell

Python

Datadog

Prometheus

Grafana

OpenTelemetry

ELK

AWS

Azure

GCP

PostgreSQL

Incident management

Ownership

Tools

GitHub Actions

Azure Pipelines

GitLab CI

Terraform

Docker

Job description

As a Site Reliability Engineer, you will be responsible for:

Operational Excellence & Incident Management

• Maintain and monitor production systems for availability, latency, and performance.
• Lead incident response efforts, including communication, resolution, and postmortem documentation.
• Design and implement health checks, alerting systems, and automated remediation workflows.
• Drive root cause analysis and implement permanent resolutions for recurring issues.

Observability & Insights

• Set up and maintain full observability stacks (logging, metrics, tracing) using tools like Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, OpenTelemetry, or ELK.
• Analyze telemetry and logs to identify trends, anomalies, and opportunities for improvement.
• Conduct post-incident reviews and use insights to inform future engineering investments.

Performance & Systems Optimization

• Tune and optimize distributed systems, including AKKA.NET actors, for performance and resource efficiency.
• Work with developers to evolve architecture and improve system throughput, latency, and stability.
• Optimize PostgreSQL performance, queries, and maintenance strategies.

CI/CD & Automation

• Design and maintain modern CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, Azure Pipelines, or GitLab CI.
• Automate deployment, testing, and rollback processes to reduce friction and increase deployment frequency.
• Standardize infrastructure as code practices across environments.

We’d love to talk to you if you have:

• 5+ years of experience in SRE, DevOps, or Infrastructure Engineering roles.
• Expertise in Kubernetes and container orchestration at scale.
• Strong experience with AKKA.NET or similar actor-based frameworks.
• Proficiency with scripting and automation (Bash, PowerShell, Python).
• Experience with observability tools (Phobos,Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, ELK).
• Hands-on experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
• Strong PostgreSQL knowledge—performance tuning, query optimization, maintenance.
• Proven ability to lead incident management and drive postmortem processes.
• A builder’s mindset with high standards for operational excellence and technical ownership.

Preferred Tools & Ecosystem Experience

• CI/CD: GitHub Actions, Azure Pipelines, GitLab CI
• Infrastructure: Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform
• Monitoring: Phobos (AKKA.NET), Datadog, Prometheus
• Source Control: GitHub, GitLab, Azure DevOps
• Programming: C#, Python, Bash, PowerShell