SRE Lead: API Platform Resilience & Observability

Sage IT; Plano (TX); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

On-site in Plano

Leadership role

Enterprise client exposure

Job summary

Sage IT in Plano, Texas is seeking an SRE Lead – API Platform to drive reliability across enterprise API gateways and cloud observability. This on-site role demands leadership of SRE teams, ownership of SLOs/SLAs, automated incident response, and robust CI/CD/chaos engineering practices to ensure sub-second latency and high uptime.

You will mentor engineers, collaborate with software, DevOps, and recruitment leadership, and deliver architecture blueprints, runbooks, and post-mortems to

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, IT, Software Engineering or related.
• Hands-on experience in SRE, DevOps, or distributed systems architecture.
• Strong operational proficiency with API gateways, microservices monitoring, and cloud infra.

Responsibilities

• Lead SRE initiatives for enterprise API platforms and observability frameworks.
• Define and monitor SLOs/SLAs and error budgets.
• Architect automated incident detection, RCA, and self-healing workflows.
• Design robust CI/CD pipelines and canary release strategies.
• Collaborate with software, DevOps, and infra squads to embed reliability into design.
• Conduct chaos engineering, load testing, and failure analyses.
• Optimize cloud resource use and cost efficiency.
• Ensure security baselines and data privacy compliance.
• Maintain incident post-mortems, runbooks, and architecture blueprints.
• Provide technical leadership and mentoring to SRE/DevOps engineers.

Skills

SRE

DevOps

API gateway

Observability

Cloud infrastructure

Incident response

Leadership

Communication

Education

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

Tools

Prometheus

Grafana

Datadog

ELK

Kubernetes

Docker

Job description

Sage IT in Plano, Texas is seeking an SRE Lead – API Platform to drive reliability across enterprise API gateways and cloud observability. This on-site role demands leadership of SRE teams, ownership of SLOs/SLAs, automated incident response, and robust CI/CD/chaos engineering practices to ensure sub-second latency and high uptime.

You will mentor engineers, collaborate with software, DevOps, and recruitment leadership, and deliver architecture blueprints, runbooks, and post-mortems to