Site Reliability Engineer

MGM; Tacoma (WA); On-site; USD 96,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

MGM in Tacoma, WA is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to reduce technical debt without a rewrite, balancing load and uptime. You will automate maintenance tasks, guide exec-level tradeoffs, and defend uptime across odd hours, while working with PagerDuty and Kubernetes.

Requirements include a bachelor's degree or equivalent, strong communication, and ability to align diverse stakeholders. Expect a fast-paced environment with flexible scheduling in a tech-forward team.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• A communicator who can disagree without making it personal.
• The diplomacy to align stakeholders who don't agree yet.
• Willingness to commute to Tacoma, WA or work flexibly as needed.
• Confident communicator across email, calls, and in-person meetings.
• Comfort with a MGM pace that rarely sits still.

Responsibilities

• Automate manual project management chores that drain Tacoma engineering hours.
• Explain PagerDuty tradeoffs to technology stakeholders in MGM terms.
• Defend MGM uptime during late-night Tacoma pages.
• Negotiate Attention Management tradeoffs with product teams.
• Decode undocumented Azure DevOps service for the team.

Skills

Strong communication

Stakeholder alignment

Willingness to commute

Diplomacy under pressure

Adaptable to fast pace

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

PagerDuty

Kubernetes

Azure DevOps

Consul

Job description

The Site Reliability Engineer we hire will help MGM pay down years of technical debt without anyone calling it a rewrite, using Load Balancing sparingly and well. What MGM is really offering: $96,000 - $130,000 for 3 years of PagerDuty, plus growth that does not stall at the door.

Key Responsibilities

• Automate the manual Project Management chores that quietly drain Tacoma, WA engineering hours
• Walk technology stakeholders through PagerDuty tradeoffs in language MGM execs grasp
• Defend MGM uptime through the 2 a.m. Tacoma pages nobody volunteers for
• Negotiate Attention Management tradeoffs with product when MGM timelines and reality collide
• Decode the undocumented Azure DevOps service nobody at MGM remembers writing

What You'll Bring

• Bachelor's degree in a related field, or equivalent practical experience
• A communicator who can disagree without making it personal
• The diplomacy to align stakeholders who don't agree yet
• Willingness to commute to Tacoma, WA or work flexibly as needed
• Confident communicator across email, calls, and in-person meetings
• Comfort with a MGM pace that rarely sits still

MGM is Tacoma, WA's answer to a technology industry grown lazy, run by a hands-dirty team that still cares about Kubernetes. We protect Fridays for learning, so spend them chasing Consul or Initiative, your call.

The offer reads $96,000 - $130,000, plus the soft stuff that hard-wins loyalty: coaching, coverage, and a flexible temporary rhythm.

Confirmed active this hour for the Tacoma, WA crew, no waiting list.