Senior Site Reliability Engineer NEX

Reliability Engineering

● Design, implement, and operate scalable, resilient, and highly available

systems on Google Cloud Platform.

● Improve service availability, latency, performance, scalability, and

operational resilience.

● Define, implement, and track service-level indicators, service-level

objectives, and error budgets.

● Perform capacity planning, performance analysis, and workload forecasting.

● Design and validate disaster recovery, backup, failover, and

service-restoration capabilities.

● Implement and maintain secure cloud networking, IAM, workload identities,

service accounts, and access-control practices.

● Partner with cybersecurity and identity teams to ensure infrastructure and

services follow organizational security standards.

● Monitor cloud consumption and optimize resource utilization, performance, and

cost efficiency.

● Identify operational risks and recommend improvements to cloud architecture

and service design.

Automation and Platform Engineering

● Build and maintain cloud infrastructure using Terraform or comparable

infrastructure-as-code tools.

● Automate repetitive operational activities and systematically identify,

measure, and reduce manual toil.

● Build reusable infrastructure modules, deployment patterns, and operational

tooling.

● Improve CI/CD pipelines to enable secure, repeatable, and reliable software

delivery.

Observability and Incident Management

● Develop actionable alerts that identify meaningful service degradation while

reducing alert fatigue and unnecessary operational noise.

● Create and maintain dashboards, runbooks, operational procedures, and

troubleshooting documentation.

● Participate in a sustainable on-call rotation supporting production systems.

● Respond to production incidents, coordinate service restoration, and lead

incident response when appropriate.

● Facilitate blameless postmortems and identify corrective and preventive

actions.

● Use incident and operational data to improve system design, automation,

monitoring, and response processes.

Collaboration and Service Ownership

● Partner with software engineering, data engineering, security, and product

teams to improve application reliability and production operations.

● Promote shared responsibility for production reliability between application

development and platform teams.

● Establish and document reliability standards, operational practices, and

reusable engineering patterns.

● Provide technical guidance and coaching on SRE, cloud, Kubernetes,

observability, and incident-management practices.

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

● Three or more years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, platform

engineering, DevOps, cloud engineering, production software engineering, or a

similar role.

● Experience operating highly available systems in a 24/7 production

environment.

● Hands-on experience operating workloads on Google Cloud Platform or another

major public cloud platform.

● Strong experience managing compute, networking and data GCP services

workloads

● Strong experience with containerization and orchestration technologies,

including Docker and Kubernetes.

● Experience building and managing infrastructure with Terraform or a comparable

infrastructure-as-code tool.

● Proficiency in Python, Go, Java, or another comparable programming language.

● Experience implementing or operating CI/CD pipelines using GitHub

Actions,Azure DevOps, Bitbucket Pipelines, or comparable tools.

● Experience implementing observability using metrics, logs, traces, dashboards,

and alerts.

● Experience participating in on-call rotations, responding to incidents, and

contributing to postmortems.

● Understanding of SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, and other SRE principles.

● Ability to troubleshoot complex issues across application, infrastructure,

network, data, and cloud-service layers.

● Ability to communicate effectively with engineering teams, business

stakeholders, and operational personnel.

Minimum Qualifications

• ● Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or
• a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• ● 3+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, platform engineering,
• cloud engineering, or DevOps.
• ● 3+ years of experience operating production workloads in GCP.
• ● Ability to understand and communicate in English at a level sufficient to
• issue, receive, and respond to safety-related and operations-related
• instructions.

Preferred Qualifications

• ● Google Cloud and/or Kubernetes certifications.
• ● Experience supporting data-intensive, streaming, analytics, or event-driven
• platforms.
• ● Experience establishing production-readiness, incident-management, or
• reliability-review processes.
• ● Experience working in the energy, oil and gas, industrial, IoT, field
• operations, or other operationally critical industries.
• ● Experience supporting technology environments that integrate cloud platforms
• with remote sites, field equipment, industrial systems, or edge computing.
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