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Releady · 2 months ago

Senior SRE Engineer (Remote - West Coast, PST Hours)

United States

Full-time

Remote

Senior Level

$55/hr - $75/hr

5+ years exp

Releady is a company supporting a major Washington-based airline, and they are seeking a Senior SRE Engineer to enhance observability and reliability practices. The engineer will consult with internal teams to design and implement observability solutions while defining enterprise SRE standards.

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Responsibilities

Meet with internal teams to gather technical and operational requirements

Design and implement tailored observability solutions across tools like Grafana, Sumo, AppDynamics, and New Relic

Build deeper dashboards for product teams and executive visibility

Define and maintain SLOs, SLIs, and reliability reporting patterns

Identify gaps in monitoring or alerting and lead the solutioning

Partner with embedded SREs across the Client’s hub and spoke model

Influence tool consolidation, standards, and enterprise reliability strategy

This role acts as an internal consultant and technical leader for observability and reliability practices

Build dashboards in Grafana for internal teams and leadership

Maintain observability tools and handle incoming requests

Connect data sources across tools (Grafana, Sumo, AppD, New Relic)

Assist teams with setting up alerting, logging structure, and basic SLOs

Instrument new apps into monitoring tools

Create repeatable patterns and templates for team onboarding

Build playbooks and small automation tasks using Ansible Automation Platform

Qualification

GrafanaSRE principlesCross-team collaborationThousandEyesAppDynamicsNew RelicSumo LogicAzureKubernetesCI/CD pipelinesSoft skills

Required

3+ years of hands-on observability experience (Grafana required plus supporting tools)

2+ years practicing SRE fundamentals (SLOs/SLIs, incident patterns, distributed systems, reliability engineering)

5+ total years in SRE, DevOps, cloud, systems, platform, or monitoring engineering roles

Experience partnering with application teams to gather requirements and deliver solutions

Strong ability to explain complex concepts clearly to non-SRE partners

Advanced Grafana expertise — design complex dashboards, build data transformations, define SLOs/SLIs, and integrate multiple data sources

SRE principles & systems thinking — deep knowledge of service health, SLOs/SLIs, error budgets, incident patterns, distributed systems, and reliability fundamentals

Cross-team collaboration & requirements gathering — engage with teams to understand needs, translate them into observability solutions, and deliver dashboards, alerting, and reliability patterns