SRE Automation Engineer: Reliability & Observability

Smart IMS Inc; Southlake (TX); On-site; USD 55,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Smart IMS Inc. in Southlake, TX is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) for a 12-month contract to improve reliability, scalability, and efficiency of production systems through automation and observability.

The ideal candidate has strong Python development skills, hands-on production engineering experience, and a proven track record of reducing toil through automation. Onsite role with competitive hourly pay.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
• 3-5 years of hands-on Site Reliability Engineering or Production Engineering experience supporting large-scale production systems.
• Strong Python programming expertise with demonstrated experience building automation tools, frameworks, and operational solutions.
• Proven experience in production operations, incident response, root cause analysis, and reliability engineering.
• Experience automating operational processes and reducing manual toil through engineering solutions.
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes and cloud platforms such as GCP, AWS, or Azure.
• Experience with monitoring and observability tools including Splunk, Grafana, Prometheus, Datadog, or similar platforms.
• Strong understanding of Linux systems, networking concepts, and distributed application architectures.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code and configuration management tools such as Terraform and Ansible.
• Excellent analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills with the ability to perform effectively in mission-critical environments.

Responsibilities

• Develop Python-based automation solutions to eliminate manual operational tasks and improve efficiency.
• Support and maintain large-scale production systems, ensuring high availability and reliability.
• Participate in incident response, troubleshooting, root cause analysis, and problem remediation activities.
• Automate infrastructure management across cloud, Kubernetes, Linux, and Windows environments.
• Implement and support infrastructure automation using tools such as Terraform and Ansible.
• Build and maintain observability solutions including dashboards, alerts, metrics, logs, and monitoring frameworks.
• Drive operational improvements to reduce recurring incidents and improve system stability.
• Perform performance analysis, capacity planning, and system health assessments.
• Support disaster recovery, failover testing, and operational readiness initiatives.
• Evaluate and implement emerging observability, automation, and AIOps capabilities.

Job description

Smart IMS Inc. in Southlake, TX is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) for a 12-month contract to improve reliability, scalability, and efficiency of production systems through automation and observability.

The ideal candidate has strong Python development skills, hands-on production engineering experience, and a proven track record of reducing toil through automation. Onsite role with competitive hourly pay.