SRE Lead: Reliability & Testing Champion
Versant Media
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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
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
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