SRE Engineer

SOMERSET STAFFING; Atlanta (GA); On-site; USD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

SOMERSET STAFFING is seeking a production support engineer to manage AWS-based systems and incident response in Atlanta, GA. The role emphasizes reliability, on-call readiness, and rapid incident containment across EC2, VPC, RDS, Lambda, and EKS.

You will use CloudWatch, Dynatrace and other tools to monitor health, perform root-cause analysis, and drive CI/CD improvements across Linux environments. Strong communication with development teams is essential for timely resolutions.

Qualifications

• Strong experience supporting production systems hosted on AWS, including EC2, VPC, ALB/NLB, RDS, Lambda, and EKS.
• Hands-on experience with incident management and 24/7 production support models.
• Proficiency with monitoring and observability tools such as CloudWatch, Dynatrace, and Quantum Metric.
• Experience building and maintaining monitoring dashboards.
• Strong troubleshooting skills across infrastructure, networking, and application layers.
• Working knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and AWS deployment processes.
• Experience working with databases and Unix/Linux environments.

Responsibilities

• Provide Level 1 and Level 2 support for production incidents across AWS-hosted applications and infrastructure.
• Triage incidents by identifying root causes, distinguishing infrastructure issues from application defects, and restoring service within defined SLAs.
• Escalate code-level defects to development teams with clear diagnostics, supporting logs, and impact assessments.
• Participate in on-call rotations, major incident bridges, and post-incident reviews.
• Investigate application defects, configuration issues, and infrastructure anomalies reported through monitoring tools or user incidents.
• Monitor system health across applications, infrastructure, and AWS services.
• Respond proactively to issues related to resource utilization, latency, errors, and availability.
• Maintain and improve monitoring and observability dashboards.

Skills

CloudWatch

Dynatrace

Git

Observability

Reliability Patterns

Chaos Testing

Shell Scripting

Tools

EC2

VPC

ALB/NLB

RDS

Lambda

EKS

Job description

Job description

Qualifications

Strong experience supporting production systems hosted on AWS, including EC2, VPC, ALB/NLB, RDS, Lambda, and EKS.

Hands-on experience with incident management and 24/7 production support models.

Proficiency with monitoring and observability tools such as CloudWatch, Dynatrace, and Quantum Metric.

Experience building and maintaining monitoring dashboards.

Strong troubleshooting skills across infrastructure, networking, and application layers.

Working knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and AWS deployment processes.

Experience working with databases and Unix/Linux environments.

Key Responsibilities

Incident Management and Production Support

Provide Level 1 and Level 2 support for production incidents across AWS-hosted applications and infrastructure.

Triage incidents by identifying root causes, distinguishing infrastructure issues from application defects, and restoring service within defined SLAs.

Escalate code-level defects to development teams with clear diagnostics, supporting logs, and impact assessments.

Participate in on-call rotations, major incident bridges, and post-incident reviews.

Investigate application defects, configuration issues, and infrastructure anomalies reported through monitoring tools or user incidents.

Monitoring and Operational Health

Perform regular health checks across applications, infrastructure, and AWS services.

Monitor system health using CloudWatch, Dynatrace, Quantum Metric, and Thousand Eyes.

Respond proactively to s related to resource utilization, latency, errors, and availability.

Maintain and improve monitoring and observability dashboards.

Skills

Mandatory Skills : CloudWatch, Dynatrace, Git, Observability, Reliability Patterns

Good to Have Skills : Chaos Testing, Shell Scripting

Required Skills :

Basic Qualification :

Additional Skills :

Background Check : No

Drug Screen : No