Sr Site Reliability Engineer (New Relic/Octopus Deploy/Terraform)

The Judge Group; Chicago (IL); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive Salary

Equity

Comprehensive Benefits

Job summary

The Judge Group seeks a Senior Site Reliability Engineer / Observability Specialist to lead the client's reliability architecture and observability strategy in a hybrid US-based role. This position blends hands-on implementation with coaching across Azure and AWS, building New Relic instrumentation and Terraform modules while driving incident management disciplines and SLO/SLI governance.

If you thrive in engineering-first consulting and want to shape production reliability at scale, this role

Qualifications

• 7+ years in SRE/DevOps with enterprise cloud scale and production reliability.
• Observability mastery with New Relic (NRQL, Synthetics, APM) and defining actionable SLOs/SLIs.
• Strong IaC & automation with Terraform and PowerShell in Windows and Linux environments.
• Cloud & CI/CD expertise in Azure DevOps or Octopus Deploy pipelines.
• Experience designing on-call rotations, runbooks, and incident response operations.

Responsibilities

• Build and optimize New Relic instrumentation (NRQL, APM, Logs) across multi-cloud to streamline metrics collection.
• Author and maintain Terraform modules to manage monitoring configurations and alert pipelines.
• Establish incident response foundations with Incident.IO, Slack/OpsGenie integrations, and automated escalation.
• Define and govern actionable SLOs/SLIs and optimize log ingestion costs to reduce alert fatigue.
• Partner with platform and product teams through hands-on coaching and post-incident reviews.

Skills

New Relic NRQL

Terraform

PowerShell

Azure DevOps

Octopus Deploy

Incident Management

SLOs / SLIs

Tools

Incident.IO

PagerDuty

OpsGenie

Azure

AWS

Job description

Ready to Lead Observability & Reliability Architecture?

At-a-Glance Snapshot

• Role: Senior Site Reliability Engineer / Observability Specialist
• Location / Work Model: Hybrid / Remote (US)
• Compensation / Perks: Competitive Salary + Equity + Comprehensive Benefits

Why Join Our Client?

• Massive Financial Scale: Build and optimize high-throughput liquidity and corporate financial platforms handling real-time, global payment flows.
• Greenfield Ownership: Establish core incident management and reliability frameworks from scratch—you'll set the playbook, not just follow one.
• Engineering-First Consulting: Enjoy the balance of hands-on technical execution (80%) and high-impact cross-functional team coaching (20%).

What You'll Do

• Engineered Observability: Build and optimize New Relic instrumentation (NRQL, APM, Logs) across Azure and AWS to streamline metrics collection using RED/USE frameworks.
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Author and maintain Terraform modules to manage monitoring configurations, alert pipelines, and cloud resources across multi-cloud environments.
• Incident Architecture: Establish early-stage incident response foundations, deploying Incident.IO, Slack/OpsGenie integrations, and automated escalation workflows to drive down MTTD/MTTR.
• Reliability Strategy: Define and govern actionable SLOs/SLIs and error budgets, optimizing log ingestion costs while eliminating alert fatigue for stream-aligned engineering teams.
• Technical Enablement: Partner directly with platform and product teams through hands-on coaching, post-incident reviews (PIRs), and Azure DevOps CI/CD pipeline automation.

What You Bring

• 7+ Years in SRE/DevOps: Deep experience scaling enterprise cloud infrastructure and production reliability in high-availability environments.
• Observability Mastery: Expert-level hands-on skills with New Relic (NRQL, Synthetics, APM) and defining actionable SLOs/SLIs. *MUST HAVE*
• Strong IaC & Automation: Advanced proficiency in Terraform and PowerShell scripting within enterprise Windows (80%) and Linux (20%) environments. *MUST HAVE*
• Cloud & CI/CD Expertise: Proven track record in Azure (App Services, Virtual Machines, Azure SQL) combined with Azure DevOps or Octopus Deploy pipelines.
• Incident Management Focus: Experience designing on-call rotations, runbooks, and incident response operations via Incident.IO, PagerDuty, or OpsGenie.

Ready to reshape global financial infrastructure and take complete ownership of production reliability?