SRE Lead: Reliability & Testing Champion

Versant Media; Englewood Cliffs (NJ); On-site; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Versant Media in Englewood Cliffs, NJ is seeking a hands-on System Reliability Engineering Lead to elevate the reliability, performance, and scalability of our software, production, and platform systems. This player-coach role partners with Software, Platform, and Infrastructure teams to implement reliability best practices and end-to-end testing.

You will build testing frameworks, improve observability, and drive proactive risk reduction across services while mentoring engineers in reliability

Qualifications

• 5+ years in SRE/DevOps/Infrastructure roles.
• Hands-on experience with production systems troubleshooting.
• Experience with integration and E2E testing frameworks.
• Familiarity with observability, monitoring, and tracing tools.
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure) and distributed systems.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and automation.

Responsibilities

• Improve system reliability, availability, and performance across services.
• Define and implement SLIs, SLOs, and reliability standards.
• Identify and remediate reliability gaps in design and ops.
• Contribute code, tooling, and automation for resilience.
• Design and implement end-to-end testing workflows.
• Build and maintain integration testing frameworks for cross-service deps.
• Execute load and performance testing for peak conditions.
• Integrate automated testing into CI/CD pipelines.
• Establish practical testing standards and adoption.
• Support performance benchmarking and capacity planning.
• Analyze performance and bottlenecks across layers.
• Optimize throughput and latency with infra/platform teams.
• Implement and improve monitoring, logging, alerting.
• Ensure systems are observable, debuggable, instrumented.
• Participate in incident response and RCA.
• Contribute to post-incident reviews.
• Collaborate with multiple teams to embed reliability practices.
• Provide guidance and hands-on support for testing and observability.
• Standardize tools, frameworks, and processes.
• Mentor engineers on reliability fundamentals and testing.

Skills

Site Reliability Engineering

DevOps

Systems Engineering

Infrastructure engineering

Production systems troubleshooting

Observability tools

Cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure)

CI/CD pipelines & automation

Kubernetes

Docker

Terraform

CloudFormation

Incident management

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

Terraform

CloudFormation

Jenkins / CI tools

Job description

Versant Media in Englewood Cliffs, NJ is seeking a hands-on System Reliability Engineering Lead to elevate the reliability, performance, and scalability of our software, production, and platform systems. This player-coach role partners with Software, Platform, and Infrastructure teams to implement reliability best practices and end-to-end testing.

You will build testing frameworks, improve observability, and drive proactive risk reduction across services while mentoring engineers in reliability