Site Reliability Engineer III

USA MOT Motion Industries, Inc.; Alton (IL); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Motion Industries, Inc. seeks a Site Reliability Engineer III to enhance reliability and automate large-scale distributed systems. You will build tooling to reduce manual effort and prevent service-impacting incidents, while ensuring platforms remain available and scalable.

The role blends software and systems engineering with monitoring, cloud services (GCP/Azure), and CI/CD practices. Typically requires a bachelor's degree and five+ years of related experience; US work eligibility without visa

Qualifications

• Typically requires a bachelor's degree and five or more years of related experience.
• Strong knowledge of Kubernetes, containers, and elastic scalability.
• Experience with cloud platforms and microservice architectures.
• Proficient in monitoring and incident response tools.

Responsibilities

• Analyze metrics from monitoring platforms to improve performance and fault tolerance.
• Collaborate with development teams to improve services through testing and release procedures.
• Participate in system design, platform management, and capacity planning.
• Balance feature development speed with reliability against SLAs.
• Support incident response and restore services quickly.
• Implement continuous process improvement cycles for performance and tooling.

Skills

Kubernetes

Containers

Cloud platforms

SRE principles

CI/CD

Monitoring

Incident response

Performance tuning

Linux/Windows

Networking troubleshooting

Automation scripting

APIs / microservices

Terraform

Azure DevOps

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Dynatrace

Prometheus

Grafana

Terraform

Azure DevOps

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)

Job description

Site Reliability Engineer III SUMMARY: Under limited supervision, the Site Reliability Engineer III is responsible for improving system reliability and resilience. This role focuses on building automation to reduce manual effort and prevent service-impacting incidents. The SRE combines software and systems engineering to build and support large-scale, distributed, fault-tolerant systems. This role ensures that critical platforms are available, reliable, and able to support a fast rate of improvement. This role relies on monitoring platforms and is continually taking a holistic view of system health and performance. The SRE will enhance and support cloud-based transformations and is focused on pushing capabilities forward, staying ahead of customer needs, and innovating for continuous improvement. The SRE provides operational support and engineering for multiple large-scale distributed software applications. You must be eligible to work in the US without Visa Sponsorship.

JOB DUTIES

• Gathers and analyzes metrics from monitoring platforms to assist in performance tuning and fault tolerance.
• Partners with development teams to improve services through testing and release procedures.
• Participates in system design, platform management and capacity planning.
• Balances feature development speed and reliability with service-level objectives.
• Works closely with the incident response team and restoring service to normal operation.
• Understands debugging and applying troubleshooting skills.
• Investigates, blocks and rate-limits unwanted traffic.
• Utilizes monitoring systems and dashboards for proactive changes and alerting.
• Establishes continuous process improvement cycles where the process, performance, and supporting technologies are reviewed and enhanced where applicable.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE

Typically requires a bachelor's degree and five (5) or more years of related experience or an equivalent combination.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, ABILITIES

• Understanding of Kubernetes, containers, clusters, and elastic scalability.
• Expertise in SRE principles.
• Mindset of continually finding ways to drive scalability, stability, and performance.
• Cloud Services experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
• Experience with API, service-based or microservice-based architecture.
• Proficiency in infrastructure, network, database, operating systems, or security troubleshooting and remediation.
• Architecture-level knowledge of Windows and Linux and Infrastructure systems.
• Experience with production deployment, monitoring, and operational support for enterprise-class applications (Dynatrace a plus).
• Experience working with Continuous Integration/ Continuous Deployment tools.
• Experience in performance diagnostics, capacity planning, performance architecture design, performance tuning, and performance monitoring.
• A strong mix of software engineering and operational support skills.
• Knowledge of web technologies – HTTP, proxy, java, etc.
• Experience with Azure DevOps (ADO), Dynatrace, Prometheus, Terraform and Grafana.

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITY: No Supervisory Responsibility BUDGET RESPONSIBILITY: No

COMPANY INFORMATION

Motion offers an excellent benefits package which includes options for healthcare coverage, 401(k), tuition reimbursement, vacation, sick, and holiday pay.

DISCLAIMER

This job description illustrates the general nature and level of work performed by employees within this job classification. It is not intended to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities and skills required. Management retains the right to add or modify duties at any time.

GPC conducts its business without regard to sex, race, creed, color, religion, marital status, national origin, citizenship status, age, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, disability, military status, status as a veteran, or any other protected characteristic. GPC's policy is to recruit, hire, train, promote, assign, transfer and terminate employees based on their own ability, achievement, experience and conduct and other legitimate business reasons.

Since 1928, GPC has set the standards for performance and value for our customers and our stakeholders. Today, we’re proud to say we’re the largest global auto parts network and a leading industrial parts distributor, one that offers rewarding careers that combine small company feel with a global scale. Our strengths are in the relationships we build and the value we deliver by merging local expertise with a global force.