Site Reliability Engineer

Jobtailor

New Jersey

On-site

USD 120,000 - 180,000

Full time

11 days ago

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Job summary

Jobtailor in New Jersey seeks an experienced Site Reliability Engineer to enhance production readiness, reliability design reviews, and release planning. You will own monitoring, alert strategies, and incident response while collaborating with cross-functional teams to drive improvements in high-availability environments.

The role requires strong scripting skills (Python/Java/Go/PowerShell) and experience with distributed systems; ITIL or SRE certifications are a plus.

Qualifications

10+ years of related technical experience across application support engineering, software engineering, site reliability engineering, production support, or application operations.
Bachelor’s degree preferred or equivalent practical experience.
Experience supporting business-critical applications in production environments.
SRE, observability, automation, or ITIL certifications are a plus.

Responsibilities

Participate in design reviews, sprint zero, and delivery planning to define and validate reliability requirements.
Collaborate with Major Release Management to ensure releases meet SRE standards and support-readiness requirements.
Define and improve monitoring, observability, dashboards, telemetry coverage, and alert strategy.
Assist in major incident response and root cause analysis.
Drive automation, intelligent tooling, and AI-assisted remediation.
Serve as the operational readiness authority before production releases.
Lead capacity, performance, workload trend, and resiliency analysis.
Establish and track reliability metrics including availability, incident volume, MTTx, alert quality, automation coverage, and change failure rate.
Participate in application reliability governance and service reviews.
Prepare executive reporting on reliability posture, release readiness, observability maturity, incident trends, risks, and improvement outcomes.
Promote SRE practices through mentoring, standards adoption, best-practice sharing, and approved AI tools

Skills

SRE Skills

Monitoring & Observability

Automation

Programming in Python/Java/Go/PowerShe

High-Availability Environments

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Tools

AI Concepts

Data Platforms

Anomaly Detection

Incident Correlation

Intelligent Automation

Job description

Participate in design reviews, sprint zero, and delivery planning to define and validate reliability requirements
Collaborate with Major Release Management to ensure releases meet SRE standards and support-readiness requirements
Define and improve monitoring, observability, dashboards, telemetry coverage, and alert strategy
Assist in major incident response and root cause analysis
Drive automation, intelligent tooling, and AI-assisted remediation
Serve as the operational readiness authority before production releases
Lead capacity, performance, workload trend, and resiliency analysis
Establish and track reliability metrics including availability, incident volume, MTTx, alert quality, automation coverage, and change failure rate
Participate in application reliability governance and service reviews
Prepare executive reporting on reliability posture, release readiness, observability maturity, incident trends, risks, and improvement outcomes
Promote SRE practices through mentoring, standards adoption, best-practice sharing, and approved AI tools

Requirements

Minimum of 10+ years of related technical experience across application support engineering, software engineering, site reliability engineering, production support, or application operations
Bachelor’s degree preferred or equivalent practical experience
Experience supporting business-critical applications in production environments
SRE, observability, automation, or ITIL certifications are a plus
Proven experience in one or more in-scope roles including Application Support Engineer, SDET, Software Engineer, or SRE
Strong understanding of monitoring and observability platforms, including dashboard design, alert tuning, telemetry coverage, log analysis, metrics, traces, and event correlation
Programming or scripting proficiency in one or more languages such as Python, Java, Go, PowerShell, or similar
Familiarity with distributed applications, middleware, messaging, batch processing, real-time processing, and production application behavior in high-availability environments
Experience in financial services, capital markets, regulated environments, or other high-availability operational settings
Demonstrated participation in disaster recovery, performance testing, resiliency testing, release readiness, incident response, and root cause analysis
Knowledge of AI concepts, data platforms, anomaly detection, incident correlation, and intelligent automation use cases
Strong collaboration skills across application support, application development, release management, risk, security, business, and vendor stakeholders
Ability to translate production support insights into actionable engineering improvements

Core Competencies

Demonstrates expertise in Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practices, including monitoring, observability, and automation, while effectively collaborating with cross-functional teams to enhance production readiness and incident response. Proven ability to analyze performance metrics and drive improvements in high-availability environments.

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