Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Job Summary

Working remotely on a contract basis, the Senior Site Reliability Engineer will manage production operations, drive infrastructure modernization, and optimize observability for a high-volume backend ecosystem.

Key responsibilities

• Act as the first line of defense in incident response, triaging production alerts and applying operational fixes
• Drive foundational upgrades, including Kubernetes version updates and GCP migrations
• Identify architectural bottlenecks and maintain elite runbook documentation to reduce technical debt

Required qualifications

• 5+ years of experience deploying and maintaining distributed, high-volume backend systems in production
• Senior-level proficiency in Java and/or Python backend development
• Hands-on expertise with Kubernetes and Google Cloud Platform
• Strong experience with monitoring and alerting tools like PagerDuty, Grafana, and Prometheus
• Proven ability to quickly triage incidents using logs, dashboards, and runbooks