Site Reliability Expert

Alpheva; United States; Remote; USD 200,000 - 303,000; Full time

Job summary

Alpheva is a remote, contract-based expert network focused on reliability of business-critical services. You will assess reliability strategies, incident response, observability and capacity planning for high-scale systems, and guide automation and infrastructure improvements across distributed platforms.

Responsibilities emphasize production-grade runbooks and cost-conscious decisions, with AI-guided SLO design, alert quality, and deployment safety.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in SRE, platform engineering, production engineering or cloud infrastructure.
• Expertise in SLOs, incident command, Kubernetes, infrastructure as code, and observability.
• Experience owning reliability for business-critical distributed services.

Responsibilities

• Evaluate production reliability strategy and incident response for high-scale systems.
• Review AI recommendations for SLO design, alert quality, deployment safety, incident command and recovery objectives.
• Identify reliability guidance that avoids failure domains, organizational constraints, customer impact or excessive complexity.
• Write corrections and runbook-quality guidance grounded in production experience.

Skills

SRE

Kubernetes

SLO design

Incident command

Observability

IaC

Production engineering

Job description

Evaluate production reliability strategy, incident response, observability, capacity planning, and infrastructure automation for high-scale systems.

Review AI recommendations for SLO design, alert quality, deployment safety, incident command, recovery objectives, and operational ownership.

Identify reliability advice that ignores failure domains, organizational constraints, customer impact, or the cost of added complexity.

Write clear corrections and runbook-quality guidance grounded in experience operating business-critical services.

Remote, project-based contract work. Scope and hours depend on project matching; the listed hourly range applies to matched work.

Requirements

• 7+ years in SRE, platform engineering, production engineering, or cloud infrastructure
• Expertise in SLOs, incident command, Kubernetes, infrastructure as code, and observability
• Experience owning reliability for business-critical distributed services

Pay

$145–$220/hr

Alpheva is a new expert network (launched September 2026); payout methods are not published yet, so confirm your first payment before scaling up.