Jobs · Consulting · Illinois

#23183 - Site Reliability Engineer

Qualitest · Chicago, IL · 1 mo ago
HybridConsulting$110k–$120k/yrFull-time

About the role

We are seeking an experienced Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) with a strong background in AWS Cloud, monitoring/observability platforms, and automation. The ideal candidate will partner closely with application development teams to improve application reliability, resiliency, performance, and operational excellence across hybrid cloud environments.

Responsibilities

  • Partner with application development teams to improve application resiliency and reliability.
  • Implement and maintain Service Level Objectives (SLOs), Service Level Indicators (SLIs), and operational best practices.
  • Build end-to-end observability solutions using monitoring, logging, and tracing tools.
  • Design and implement monitoring, alerting, dashboards, and health checks for production applications.
  • Automate operational processes to reduce manual effort and improve system reliability.
  • Develop and enhance capacity planning and performance management capabilities.
  • Support disaster recovery (DR) planning and implementation for critical applications.
  • Develop and support chaos engineering and resilience testing initiatives.
  • Participate in production incident management and on-call support rotation.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to improve system availability, scalability, and operational efficiency.

Requirements

  • 6–12 years of professional experience as a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)
  • Strong hands-on experience with AWS Cloud applications and services (mandatory)
  • Experience supporting hybrid environments (AWS Cloud and on-premises deployments)
  • Strong Linux/Unix administration and shell scripting experience
  • Experience with Systems Observability and Application Performance Monitoring (APM) tools, preferably Datadog (Dynatrace experience is also valuable)
  • Experience building dashboards using Grafana and Kibana
  • Experience in performance testing and the ability to translate functional and non-functional requirements into automated non-functional testing (NFT) solutions
  • Strong understanding of application integration, high availability, resilience, and observability
  • Experience with DevOps practices and CI/CD pipelines
  • Strong programming skills in one or more of the following: Python, Java, Shell Scripting (Unix/Linux)
  • Strong understanding of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)

Qualifications

  • Hands-on experience with ServiceNow (SNOW)
  • Experience with container technologies such as Kubernetes and OpenShift
  • Experience with Jenkins and CI/CD automation
  • Experience with automation tools such as Ansible
  • Strong working knowledge of JIRA
  • Basic understanding of Release Management
  • Understanding of Agile methodologies
  • Experience with AWS Lambda services
  • Knowledge of SQL, MySQL, and database concepts

Skills

  • Cloud: AWS (mandatory), Hybrid Cloud, On-Prem, Linux/Unix, AWS Lambda
  • Mandatory: Monitoring & Observability: Datadog (preferred), Dynatrace, Grafana, Kibana, ELK, APM tools
  • Programming: Python, Java, Shell Scripting, Go (preferred), Ansible
  • DevOps: Jenkins, CI/CD, Kubernetes, OpenShift

Benefits

  • Competitive pay, the salary range for the role is $110,000 - $120,000

Pay

  • $110,000 - $120,000

Schedule

  • Hybrid – 2 to 3 days/week onsite

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