Site Reliability Engineer - Mid-Level

Apex Systems; Southlake, Northern (TX, KY); Hybrid; USD 95,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

401K with company match

ESPP

HSA

EAP

Training programs

Discount program

Job summary

Everforth Apex Systems is seeking a mid-level Site Reliability Engineer to join our hybrid Southlake team. You will apply automation-first approaches to production systems across Linux, Kubernetes, and multi-cloud platforms, focusing on reliability, observability, and incident response.

You bring 3–5 years of SRE or DevOps experience, strong Python skills, and hands-on expertise with monitoring tools such as Splunk, Grafana, or Prometheus.

Qualifications

• 3–5 years of hands-on SRE/DevOps experience with production systems.
• Strong automation and programming skills, particularly in Python.

Responsibilities

• Develop Python-based automation to reduce manual effort.
• Automate infrastructure management across Linux, Kubernetes, and multi-cloud environments.
• Monitor and maintain production systems to meet reliability goals.
• Participate in incident response and post-incident analysis.
• Build dashboards and alerts using Splunk, Grafana, Prometheus.

Skills

Python

Kubernetes

GCP/AWS/Azure

Monitoring

Linux

Networking

OpenTelemetry

AIOps

CI/CD

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS/Engineering

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Job description

Engineering - SRE - Site Reliability Engineer - Mid-Level

Location: Southlake, Texas (Hybrid)

Role Overview

We are seeking a motivated Site Reliability Engineer with 3 to 5 years of experience in automation, cloud infrastructure, and production operations. The ideal candidate has a strong automation-first mindset and enjoys solving complex operational challenges. This role focuses on improving reliability, observability, operational efficiency, and automation across on-premises and cloud platforms.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop Python-based automation solutions to reduce manual operational effort.
• Automate infrastructure management across Linux, Windows, Kubernetes, GCP, and cloud-native environments.
• Integrate tools and platforms through APIs and client libraries.
• Assist in implementing infrastructure automation using Ansible, Terraform, or similar technologies.
• Monitor and maintain production systems to meet reliability and availability objectives.
• Participate in incident response, troubleshooting, and root cause analysis activities.
• Build and maintain dashboards, alerts, and monitoring solutions using Splunk, Grafana, Prometheus, or similar tools.
• Explore AI/ML-driven operational improvements such as anomaly detection and intelligent alerting.

Required Qualifications

• Education: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent experience.
• Experience: 3 to 5 years of hands-on experience in Site Reliability Engineering, Production Engineering, DevOps, Systems Engineering, or Platform Engineering. Must have supported production systems at scale with experience in operations ownership and incident response.

Technical Skills

• Strong programming skills in Python for automation and tooling development.
• Experience supporting Kubernetes and cloud platforms (GCP, AWS, or Azure).
• Familiarity with infrastructure automation, configuration management tools, and monitoring platforms such as Splunk, Grafana, or Prometheus.
• Understanding of Linux systems, networking, and distributed applications.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Terraform, Ansible, or Infrastructure as Code solutions.
• Exposure to OpenTelemetry and modern observability practices.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation.
• Knowledge of AI/ML, AIOps, or intelligent operational tooling.
• Experience supporting highly available production systems in regulated or enterprise environments.

Everforth Apex Benefits Overview

• Everforth Apex offers a range of supplemental benefits, including medical, dental, vision, life, disability, and other insurance plans that offer an optional layer of financial protection.
• We offer an ESPP (employee stock purchase program) and a 401K program which allows you to contribute typically within 30 days of starting, with a company match after 12 months of tenure.
• Everforth Apex also offers a HSA (Health Savings Account on the HDHP plan), a SupportLinc Employee Assistance Program (EAP) with up to 8 free counseling sessions, a corporate discount savings program and other discounts.
• In terms of professional development, Everforth Apex hosts an on-demand training program, provides access to certification prep and a library of technical and leadership courses/books/seminars once you have 6+ months of tenure, and certification discounts and other perks to associations that include CompTIA and IIBA.
• Everforth Apex has a dedicated customer service team for our Consultants that can address questions around benefits and other resources, and certified Career Coach. You can access a full list of our benefits, programs, support teams and resources within our ‘Welcome Packet’ as well, which an Everforth Apex team member can provide.

Everforth Apex Systems is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate or allow discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or related medical conditions), age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, genetic information, registered domestic partner status, marital status, disability, status as a crime victim, protected veteran status, political affiliation, union membership, or any other characteristic protected by law. Everforth Apex will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable law.

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