SRE Lead – API Platform & Observability

Tech Junction Ltd; Plano (TX); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Sage IT in Plano, TX seeks a Lead SRE – API Platform to own reliability of API gateways, observability, and CI/CD, guiding a cross-functional team on-site in Plano. You will drive SRE initiatives, define SLOs, implement automated incident response, and ensure sub-second latency and robust platform resilience.

Ideal candidates bring extensive SRE and distributed systems experience, strong leadership, and a track record in automating monitoring, chaos testing, and cost-efficient cloud operations

Qualifications

• SRE/DevOps or distributed systems architecture experience.
• Proven ability to own API gateway reliability and CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience implementing monitoring, alerting, and self-healing systems.
• Leadership experience managing SRE teams in enterprise environments.
• Strong communication with cross-functional stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Lead SRE initiatives for enterprise API platforms and observability.
• Define and monitor SLOs, SLAs, and error budgets.
• Architect automated incident detection and RCA workflows.
• Design and manage CI/CD pipelines and canary releases.
• Collaborate with software, DevOps, and infra squads.
• Conduct chaos testing and load/failure analyses on API gateways.
• Optimize cloud resources and cost across distributed environments.
• Maintain incident postmortems, runbooks, and architecture blueprints.
• Provide technical leadership to SRE and DevOps engineers.

Skills

SRE experience

API gateway

Observability tools

Kubernetes

Docker

Prometheus

Grafana

Datadog

ELK

Leadership

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Software Engineering, or related technical discipline

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

Terraform

Jira

Confluence

ServiceNow

Job description

Sage IT in Plano, TX seeks a Lead SRE – API Platform to own reliability of API gateways, observability, and CI/CD, guiding a cross-functional team on-site in Plano. You will drive SRE initiatives, define SLOs, implement automated incident response, and ensure sub-second latency and robust platform resilience.

Ideal candidates bring extensive SRE and distributed systems experience, strong leadership, and a track record in automating monitoring, chaos testing, and cost-efficient cloud operations