Site Reliability Engineer

Talentify; Jersey City (NJ); Hybrid; USD 83,000 - 94,000; Full time

Job summary

Genesis10 is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer for a hybrid role (3 days onsite) with a Global Financial Institution located in Charlotte, NC, Jersey City, NJ or Plano, TX. This is a 12+ month contract opportunity.

The individual in this role is responsible for directly partnering with Application Development and Production Support teams to implement reliability measures. This role will ensure instrumentation, tooling, ticketing, and alerting are in place for key services, with a focus on

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure and observability tooling.
• Strong collaboration across global teams and stakeholders.
• Experience implementing reliability measures and automation.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with Development and Infrastructure teams to implement monitoring capabilities
• Mentor SRE resources on reliability practices and tools
• Develop and maintain reliability scripts and libraries for instrumentation and automation
• Partner to implement code changes using common reliability libraries and tools
• Engage in major incident triage efforts and root-cause analysis
• Identify opportunities to improve reliability and reduce noise in monitoring
• Participate in on-call rotations to support production systems

Skills

Azure expertise

Observability

SRE practices

Collaboration

Python scripting

Troubleshooting

Tools

Terraform

Azure DevOps

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

Prometheus

Grafana

Job description

Genesis10 is currently seeking a Site Reliability Engineer for a hybrid position (3 days onsite) with a Global Financial Institution located in Charlotte, NC, Jersey City, NJ or Plano, TX. This is a 12+ month contract opportunity.

The individual in this role is responsible for directly partnering with Application Development and Production Support teams to implement reliability measures. This role will ensure the appropriate instrumentation, tooling, ticketing, and alerting are in place for key services. This role will also focus heavily on software development activities, with a focus toward delivering automated solutions to eliminate toil and suggest code enhancements to the Application Development teams.

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with Development and Infrastructure teams to understand technical solutions and to implement monitoring capabilities


• Mentor SRE resources on reliability practices and established tools/capabilities


• Develop and maintain a catalog of extensible reliability scripts, tools and libraries that can be leveraged for common instrumentation, automation, and operational needs


• Partner to implement code changes to make use of common reliability libraries and tools


• Engage as a subject matter expert (SME) in major incident triage efforts, failure scenario modeling and work with Problem Manager to diagnose root causes


• Identify vulnerabilities and opportunities for reliability improvement, such as investigating low level error rates and 'noise' in monitoring


• Participate regularly in an on-call rotation with Production Support teammates to learn more about reliability issues affecting their portfolio

Requirements:

• Hands‑on experience with Microsoft Azure infrastructure and platform services


• Experience with Terraform, Terraform Enterprise, or comparable infrastructure-as-code tooling


• Working knowledge of Azure networking, including VNets, subnets, route tables, firewalls, DNS, private endpoints, and load balancing


• Experience with Azure Monitor, Azure Log Analytics, Dynatrace, Splunk, Prometheus, Grafana, or similar observability platforms


• Experience with CI/CD tooling such as Jenkins, Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, or comparable pipeline frameworks


• Scripting or programming experience with Python, PowerShell, Bash, or similar languages


• Understanding of cloud resiliency, high availability, logging, monitoring, and operational support practices


• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, organizational, and communication skills


• Ability to collaborate effectively with globally distributed engineering and operations teams

Desired skills:

• Microsoft Azure certification


• Experience in financial services, regulated technology, or other enterprise‑scale environments


• Experience with AKS, ACR, Kubernetes, container registries, or container‑based deployment models


• Experience with Azure AI Foundry, OpenAI/GenAI platform operations, model‑serving observability, or AI platform readiness


• Familiarity with SRE practices such as SLIs, SLOs, incident response, problem management, post‑incident reviews, and toil reduction


• Exposure to IAM, cloud security, policy‑as‑code, vulnerability remediation, and governance dashboards

Pay range: $60.24 - $68.24 per hour

Only candidates available and ready to work directly as Genesis10 employees will be considered for this position.

Ranked a Top Staffing Firm in the U.S. by Staffing Industry Analysts for six consecutive years, Genesis10 puts thousands of consultants and employees to work across the United States every year in contract, contract‑for‑hire, and permanent placement roles. With more than 300 active clients, Genesis10 provides access to many of the Fortune 100 firms and a variety of mid‑market organizations across the full spectrum of industry verticals.

For contract roles, Genesis10 offers the benefits listed below. If this is a perm-placement opportunity, our recruiter can talk you through the unique benefits offered for that particular client. Benefits of Working with Genesis10:

• Access to hundreds of clients, most who have been working with Genesis10 for 5-20+ years.


• The opportunity to have a career-home in Genesis10; many of our consultants have been working exclusively with Genesis10 for years.


• Access to an experienced, caring recruiting team (more than 7 years of experience, on average.)


• Behavioral Health Platform


• Medical, Dental, Vision


• Health Savings Account


• Voluntary Hospital Indemnity (Critical Illness & Accident)


• Voluntary Term Life Insurance


• 401K


• Sick Pay (for applicable states/municipalities)


• Commuter Benefits (Dallas, NYC, SF, and Illinois)

For multiple years running, Genesis10 has been recognized as a Top Staffing Firm in the U.S., as a Best Company for Work-Life Balance, as a Best Company for Career Growth, for Diversity, and for Leadership, amongst others. To learn more and to view all our available career opportunities, please visit us at our website.

Genesis10 is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Candidates will receive consideration without regard to their race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.