SRE Engineer

SFE; Englewood Cliffs (NJ); On-site; USD 130,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

SFE in New Jersey is seeking an experienced Site Reliability Engineer to design and operate highly available production systems. You will implement automation, monitor health, and ensure service reliability across cloud and on-prem components.

Responsibilities include incident management, RCA, capacity planning, and collaboration with development, QA, cloud, and support teams to improve deployment processes and reliability.

Qualifications

• 6-7 years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, Production Support, DevOps, or Infrastructure Operations.
• Strong understanding of Linux administration and troubleshooting.
• Hands-on experience with AWS cloud services (EC2, RDS, IAM, VPC, CloudWatch, S3).
• Experience with monitoring, alerting, and observability tools.
• Knowledge of incident management, problem management, and RCA processes.
• Experience with automation and scripting using Shell and/or Python.
• Working knowledge of PostgreSQL and MySQL databases.
• Experience with Git version control.
• Understanding of CI/CD concepts and tools such as Jenkins.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain highly available and reliable production systems.
• Automate operational tasks and infrastructure management using Shell, Python, Ansible, or Terraform.
• Manage and support AWS services including EC2, RDS, S3, IAM, VPC, CloudWatch, and related cloud services.
• Perform Linux server administration, troubleshooting, patching, and performance tuning.
• Monitor application and infrastructure health using tools such as Grafana, Prometheus, CloudWatch, Datadog, Splunk.
• Participate in incident management, root cause analysis (RCA), and problem management activities.
• Define and maintain SLIs, SLOs, and SLAs to ensure service reliability.
• Support PostgreSQL and MySQL databases for operational and basic administration tasks.
• Collaborate with development, QA, cloud, and support teams to improve system reliability and deployment processes.
• Drive automation, observability, capacity planning, security, and operational best practices.
• Participate in on-call support and production issue resolution.

Skills

Linux administration

AWS

Observability

Automation

Scripting

PostgreSQL

MySQL

Git

CI/CD concepts

Tools

Jenkins

Terraform

Ansible

Shell

Python

Grafana

Prometheus

CloudWatch

Datadog

Splunk

Job description

Must Have Technical/Functional Skills:

• 6-7 years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, Production Support, DevOps, or Infrastructure Operations.
• Strong understanding of Linux administration and troubleshooting.
• Hands-on experience with AWS cloud services (EC2, RDS, IAM, VPC, CloudWatch, S3).
• Experience with monitoring, alerting, and observability tools.
• Knowledge of incident management, problem management, and RCA processes.
• Experience with automation and scripting using Shell and/or Python.
• Working knowledge of PostgreSQL and MySQL databases.
• Experience with Git version control.
• Understanding of CI/CD concepts and tools such as Jenkins.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Design, implement, and maintain highly available and reliable production systems.
• Automate operational tasks and infrastructure management using Shell, Python, Ansible, or Terraform.
• Manage and support AWS services including EC2, RDS, S3, IAM, VPC, CloudWatch, and related cloud services.
• Perform Linux server administration, troubleshooting, patching, and performance tuning.
• Monitor application and infrastructure health using tools such as Grafana, Prometheus, CloudWatch, Datadog, Splunk.
• Participate in incident management, root cause analysis (RCA), and problem management activities.
• Define and maintain SLIs, SLOs, and SLAs to ensure service reliability.
• Support PostgreSQL and MySQL databases for operational and basic administration tasks.
• Collaborate with development, QA, cloud, and support teams to improve system reliability and deployment processes.
• Drive automation, observability, capacity planning, security, and operational best practices.
• Participate in on-call support and production issue resolution.