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Apply now: Senior Site Reliability Engineer (Senior SRE), location is REMOTE. The start date is ASAP for this contract to hire position.

Job Title: Senior Site Reliability Engineer (Senior SRE)
Location-Type: 100% REMOTE
Start Date Is: ASAP
Duration: Contract to Hire
Compensation Range: $70-90/hr on W2 
Benefits: Eligible for Health, Dental, Vision, 401K
Must be authorized to work in the U.S. This position is not eligible for sponsorship .

Job Description:
The Senior Site Reliability Engineer is responsible for improving reliability, scalability, and operational excellence across distributed systems through automation, observability, and engineering best practices.

Day-to-Day Responsibilities:

• Lead reliability and recovery planning for critical systems and services
• Define and maintain SLIs, SLOs, and error budget practices
• Drive incident response efforts and lead complex outage investigations
• Conduct root cause analysis and implement corrective actions
• Design and build automation to reduce operational toil
• Improve CI/CD pipelines, deployment workflows, and rollback strategies
• Develop and maintain observability tooling for metrics, logs, and tracing
• Partner with release and change management teams on release readiness
• Mentor engineers and promote operational excellence across teams
• Influence system architecture to improve reliability and scalability

Requirements:

• Must-Haves:
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field
  • Need to be currently in a role as a Site Reliability Engineer 
  • 6–10 years of experience in SRE, DevOps, platform engineering, or software engineering
  • Strong experience with AWS and distributed systems
  • Professional experience performing root cause analysis and incident management
  • Experience documenting SRE systems and operational processes
  • Strong programming skills across multiple languages
  • Experience with observability tools, monitoring, logging, and tracing
  • Experience with CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation
  • Familiarity with containerization and orchestration technologies
  • Strong troubleshooting, analytical, and problem-solving skills
  • Ability to work effectively in regulated or enterprise environments
• Nice-to-Haves:
  • Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools such as CloudFormation
  • Experience with Spring, Spring Boot, React, or Angular
  • Experience with Tomcat, Netty, Node.js, or Next.js
  • Experience with relational and non-relational databases
  • Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments
  • Experience with ITSM tools such as ServiceNow
  • Familiarity with ITIL-based release and change management processes
  • Knowledge of security compliance frameworks such as ISO 27001 or SOC 2

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