Site Reliability Engineer

Optomi; United States; On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Optomi, in partnership with a large national banking institution, is seeking an Application Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to join their team. You will help deliver reliable, scalable, and high-performing production systems within a highly available enterprise environment.

The role emphasizes automation, observability, incident response, and DevOps best practices while collaborating with application teams to improve stability and accelerate software delivery.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of SRE/DevOps experience in enterprise production.
• On-call experience and high availability mindset.
• Hands-on with GitLab, Git, and Terraform.
• Strong observability using Dynatrace and Splunk.
• Experience developing and maintaining SLOs and error budgets.
• Automation of operational processes.
• Incident response leadership and blameless postmortems.
• Experience with AWS and API Gateway.

Responsibilities

• Support and enhance reliability, scalability, and performance of production systems.
• Lead incident response efforts and promote blameless postmortems.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to improve platform health.
• Drive reliability initiatives through automation and observability.

Skills

SRE/DevOps

GitLab & Git

Terraform IaC

Observability

Incident response

SLOs & error budgets

Automation

AWS cloud

Logging & monitoring

Tools

GitLab

Git

Terraform

Dynatrace

Splunk

API Gateway

AWS

Job description

Optomi, in partnership with a large national banking institution, is seeking a Application Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to join their team. This is an exciting opportunity to support and enhance the reliability, scalability, and performance of critical production systems within a highly available enterprise environment. The ideal candidate will have experience with cloud infrastructure, observability, automation, incident response, and DevOps best practices, while partnering closely with application teams to improve platform stability and accelerate software delivery.

What The Right Professional Will Enjoy

• Opportunity to support mission-critical production systems for a leading national financial institution.
• Driving reliability initiatives through automation, observability, and Site Reliability Engineering best practices.
• Collaborating with cross-functional application, infrastructure, cloud, and engineering teams to improve system health and operational excellence.
• Leading incident response efforts while promoting blameless postmortems and continuous service improvements.
• Leveraging modern AI-assisted tooling to accelerate incident triage and reduce mean-time-to-detect (MTTD).

Apply Today If Your Background Includes

• 5+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, Systems Engineering, or a related discipline supporting enterprise production environments.
• Experience supporting production applications, participating in on-call rotations, and maintaining high system availability and reliability.
• Hands-on experience with DevOps technologies such as GitLab, Git, and Infrastructure as Code tools including Terraform.
• Strong troubleshooting skills with experience building and enhancing observability using monitoring and logging platforms such as Dynatrace and Splunk.
• Experience developing and maintaining Service Level Objectives (SLOs), error budget tracking, production readiness standards, and operational health scoring.
• Proven ability to automate manual operational processes and identify opportunities to improve platform efficiency.
• Experience leading incident response efforts, conducting blameless postmortems, and partnering with development teams to improve logging, runbooks, and technical debt.
• Experience working with public cloud platforms, preferably AWS, including API Gateway technologies.
• Experience developing APIs, microservices, or frontend applications is a plus.
• Strong understanding of operational excellence, observability best practices, and continuous improvement within enterprise environments.