Site Reliability Engineer

Inherent Technologies; Schaumburg (IL); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Inherent Technologies is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer for a 1-year hybrid role based in Schaumburg, IL or Secaucus, NJ. The engineer will monitor and improve production reliability, design observability, and drive incident response with cross-functional teams.

The ideal candidate has 5+ years in SRE/DevOps, strong Linux administration, and hands-on cloud and container experience (AWS/Azure/GCP, Docker, Kubernetes). CI/CD and IaC skills are essential for success.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of IT experience with 5+ years in Site Reliability Engineering, Production Support, DevOps, or Cloud Operations.
• Strong Linux/Unix administration and scripting (Python, Shell, or PowerShell).
• Hands-on experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP) and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes).

Responsibilities

• Monitor, maintain, and improve the reliability, availability, and performance of production systems.
• Design and implement monitoring, alerting, logging, and observability solutions.
• Establish and track SLIs/SLOs and error budgets.
• Automate operational tasks and IaC to reduce toil.
• Lead incident response, RCA, and post-incident reviews.
• Collaborate with development, infrastructure, and platform teams to improve reliability and resilience.
• Perform capacity planning, performance tuning, and scalability assessments.
• Support CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation initiatives.
• Implement high-availability, disaster recovery, and failover strategies.

Skills

Linux

Python

CI/CD

IaC

Docker

Kubernetes

Monitoring

Networking

Security

SQL

Tools

Prometheus

Grafana

ELK

Splunk

Datadog

Dynatrace

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

GitLab CI

Azure DevOps

Terraform

Ansible

CloudFormation

Job description

Position: Site Reliability Engineer

Location: Schaumburg, IL or Secaucus, NJ***hybrid***

Duration: 1 Year

Position: Site Reliability Engineer

Location: Schaumburg, IL or Secaucus, NJ***hybrid***

Duration: 1 Year

Mandatory Skills:

• Python/R and ML libraries (scikit-learn, TensorFlow, PyTorch)
• Data analysis and visualization (Pandas, NumX, Power BI/Tableau)
• SQL and database management

Key Responsibilities

• Monitor, maintain, and improve the reliability, availability, and performance of production systems.
• Design and implement monitoring, alerting, logging, and observability solutions.
• Establish and track Service Level Indicators (SLIs), Service Level Objectives (SLOs), and Error Budgets.
• Automate operational tasks and repetitive processes using scripting and Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
• Lead incident response activities, troubleshooting, root cause analysis (RCA), and post-incident reviews.
• Collaborate with development, infrastructure, and platform teams to improve system reliability and resilience.
• Perform capacity planning, performance tuning, and scalability assessments.
• Support CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation initiatives.
• Implement high-availability, disaster recovery, and failover strategies.

Required Skills

• Strong experience with Linux/Unix administration.
• Proficiency in scripting languages such as Python, Shell, or PowerShell.
• Hands‑on experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
• Experience with containerization technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes.
• Knowledge of monitoring and observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Splunk, Dynatrace, or Datadog.
• Understanding of CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or Azure DevOps.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform, Ansible, or CloudFormation.
• Strong troubleshooting, debugging, and problem‑solving skills.
• Understanding of networking, security, and distributed systems concepts.

Experience

• 5 10+ years of overall IT experience.
• 5+ years of hands‑on experience in Site Reliability Engineering, Production Support, DevOps, or Cloud Operations roles.