Site Reliability Engineer – Automation & Observability

Aquent; Southlake (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

subsidized health

vision

dental plans

paid sick leave

retirement plans with a match

free online training through AquentGym

Job summary

Aquent is assisting a leading financial services innovator in seeking a Senior Reliability Engineer focused on automation and platform excellence. You will enhance production systems, drive automation, and ensure reliable operations across on-prem and cloud environments.

The role emphasizes building scalable automation, improving incident response, and advancing observability using Splunk, Grafana, Prometheus, and related tools. Candidates should have strong Python and SRE experience.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field or equivalent experience.

Responsibilities

• Develop Python-based automation solutions to reduce manual operational effort.
• Automate infrastructure management across Linux, Windows, Kubernetes, cloud platforms, and cloud-native environments.
• Integrate tools via APIs and client libraries to streamline workflows.
• Support CI/CD automation and deployment reliability initiatives.
• Monitor and maintain production systems to meet reliability goals.
• Participate in incident response, troubleshooting, and RCA activities.
• Develop proactive automation and operational improvements to reduce recurring issues.
• Support disaster recovery and failover testing to ensure business continuity.
• Perform in-depth performance analysis and health reviews to optimize systems.
• Build dashboards and monitoring with Splunk, Grafana, Prometheus, or similar.
• Improve visibility with metrics, logs, and traces for proactive detection.
• Investigate alerts to reduce noise and improve detection accuracy.
• Explore AI/ML-driven operational improvements such as anomaly detection and intelligent alerting.
• Assist in AI-enabled automation solutions for efficiency.
• Evaluate emerging observability technologies to keep systems at the forefront.

Skills

Python

Kubernetes

GCP

AWS

Azure

Splunk

Grafana

Prometheus

Datadog

Linux

Incident management

RCA

CI/CD

OpenTelemetry

Terraform

Ansible

AI/ML (AIOps)

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

OpenTelemetry

CI/CD

Datadog

Splunk

Grafana

Prometheus

Job description

Aquent is assisting a leading financial services innovator in seeking a Senior Reliability Engineer focused on automation and platform excellence. You will enhance production systems, drive automation, and ensure reliable operations across on-prem and cloud environments.

The role emphasizes building scalable automation, improving incident response, and advancing observability using Splunk, Grafana, Prometheus, and related tools. Candidates should have strong Python and SRE experience.