Site Reliability Engineer - Automation & Cloud Reliability

Aquent; Southlake (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Subsidized health, vision, and dental

Paid sick leave

Retirement plan with company match

Job summary

Aquent Talent is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to join our client’s team, focusing on reliability of mission-critical systems across on-prem and cloud environments. You will drive automation, incident response, and scalable operations in a fast-paced setting.

You will design and implement Python-based tools, Kubernetes automation, and cloud-based strategies, contributing to continuous delivery and improved system resilience for millions of users.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 3–5 years in SRE/DevOps with production-scale systems.
• Strong Python automation skills required.
• Experience with Kubernetes and cloud platforms (GCP/AWS/Azure).

Responsibilities

• Develop Python automation to reduce manual operational effort.
• Automate infrastructure across Linux, Windows, Kubernetes, and clouds.
• Integrate tools via APIs and client libraries to streamline workflows.
• Assist in implementing infrastructure automation using standard technologies.
• Support CI/CD automation and deployment reliability initiatives.
• Monitor and maintain production systems to meet reliability goals.
• Engage in incident response, RCA, and troubleshooting to prevent recurrence.
• Develop proactive automation and operational improvements.
• Support disaster recovery, failover testing, and DR readiness.
• Perform performance analysis and health reviews to optimize systems.
• Build dashboards and monitoring with Splunk, Grafana, and Prometheus.
• Improve visibility with metrics, logs, and traces; reduce noise in alerts.
• Explore AI/ML-driven observations and anomaly detection for ops.
• Develop automation that leverages AI for efficiency gains.
• Evaluate emerging AIOps and observability technologies.

Skills

Python automation

Kubernetes

Cloud platforms

CI/CD

Incident response

Root Cause Analysis

Monitoring/observability

Linux

IaC (Terraform/Ansible)

OpenTelemetry

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related

Tools

Splunk

Grafana

Prometheus

Datadog

Terraform

Ansible

OpenTelemetry

Job description

Aquent Talent is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to join our client’s team, focusing on reliability of mission-critical systems across on-prem and cloud environments. You will drive automation, incident response, and scalable operations in a fast-paced setting.

You will design and implement Python-based tools, Kubernetes automation, and cloud-based strategies, contributing to continuous delivery and improved system resilience for millions of users.