Site Reliability Engineer

Oliver Wyman; Metairie (LA); On-site; USD 81,000 - 112,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Performance bonuses

Comprehensive insurance

Flexible work location

Job summary

Oliver Wyman in Metairie, LA seeks a Site Reliability Engineer to advance distributed systems with a focus on observability, DNS management, and scalable cloud infrastructure. The role blends a pay range of $81,000–$112,000 with autonomy to shape Organization work and a collaborative team that grows together.

You'll work on Google Cloud Platform features, optimize queries, integrate third-party services, and drive incident postmortems to prevent outages.

Qualifications

• Comfort steering technology conversations toward a decision.
• A forever-learning bias toward action, balanced by knowing when to wait.
• The discipline to document while it's fresh, not after it's forgotten.
• The kind of attention to detail that catches what spell-check misses.
• A portfolio or work samples that demonstrate your technology expertise.
• Strong working knowledge of Presentation Skills and DNS Management.
• Demonstrated capacity to mentor or support mid-level teammates.

Responsibilities

• Stand up observability so Oliver Wyman sees failures before customers in LA do.
• Apply DNS Management and Presentation Skills to solve mission-driven engineering challenges.
• Ship the human-first Google Cloud Platform features that move Oliver Wyman's technology roadmap forward.
• Tune database queries and schemas for high-throughput Oliver Wyman workloads.
• Trace a calmly-fast-moving technology bug across three Nginx services to the one bad line.
• Integrate third-party services and internal tools into the Oliver Wyman stack.
• Stitch Vault events into the AWS pipeline feeding Oliver Wyman's technology reports.
• Drive the Organization incident postmortem that stops the Metairie outage from recurring.

Skills

DNS management

Presentation skills

Observability

Nginx

Cloud platform features

Mentoring / supporting teammates

Tools

Google Cloud Platform

Job description

Ready to work on real distributed systems? Oliver Wyman is adding a Site Reliability Engineer skilled in Organization to the technology team. This role blends $81,000 - $112,000 pay with the autonomy to shape Organization work and a team that grows together.

Key Responsibilities

• Stand up observability so Oliver Wyman sees failures before customers in LA do
• Apply DNS Management and Presentation Skills to solve mission-driven engineering challenges
• Ship the human-first Google Cloud Platform features that move Oliver Wyman's technology roadmap forward
• Tune database queries and schemas for high-throughput Oliver Wyman workloads
• Trace a calmly-fast-moving technology bug across three Nginx services to the one bad line
• Integrate third-party services and internal tools into the Oliver Wyman stack
• Stitch Vault events into the AWS pipeline feeding Oliver Wyman's technology reports
• Drive the Organization incident postmortem that stops the Metairie outage from recurring

What You'll Bring

• Comfort steering technology conversations toward a decision
• A forever-learning bias toward action, balanced by knowing when to wait
• The discipline to document while it's fresh, not after it's forgotten
• The kind of attention to detail that catches what spell-check misses
• A portfolio or work samples that demonstrate your technology expertise
• Strong working knowledge of Presentation Skills and DNS Management
• Demonstrated capacity to mentor or support mid-level teammates

You can trace a lot of LA's technology momentum back to a gently-demanding little team called Oliver Wyman in Metairie. Learning out loud is encouraged here, so share the Nginx rabbit hole you fell down yesterday.

We offer $81,000 - $112,000, performance bonuses, comprehensive insurance, and the freedom to shape how and where you work.

As of this visit, Oliver Wyman is actively reviewing for the Site Reliability Engineer role.