Site Reliability Engineer – Oil & Gas at IT MATE

About the role

What will you do at IT MATE?

Client: oil and gas company (upstream operator, Houston HQ) · Location: remote, LATAM, Houston business hours · Level: senior · Engagement: full-time contractor, on-call rotation

You will own the reliability of the platforms behind field operations: production monitoring, data ingestion and the applications engineers use around the clock.

What you will do

* Set SLOs for operations-critical systems and report on them to IT and operations leadership
* Run hybrid infrastructure: Azure (AKS) plus on-premise and edge sites with limited connectivity
* Build monitoring and alerting that covers both cloud services and field data flows
* Lead incident response and postmortems, coordinating with OT and network teams
* Automate infrastructure with Terraform and Ansible and deployments with GitHub Actions or Azure DevOps
* Plan capacity and disaster recovery for 24/7 operations
What you bring
* 5+ years in SRE, DevOps or infrastructure engineering
* Strong Kubernetes, Linux and infrastructure as code
* Experience with Azure or AWS in hybrid setups
* Scripting in Python, Go or PowerShell
* Track record running on-call for systems where downtime has operational cost
* Advanced English
Nice to have
* Exposure to OT/IT integration, SCADA networks or IEC 62443
* Energy, utilities or industrial background
* Experience with edge computing or low-bandwidth sites

Which skills does this role require?

Site Reliability EngineeringCapacity PlanningSite Reliability EngineerOil & GasAKSSLOUpstream OperatorHybrid Infrastructure

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