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Russell Tobin · 1 month ago

Systems Reliability Engineer || Contract role || Remote

United States

Full-time, Contract

Remote

Senior Level

$55.99/hr - $69.36/hr

5+ years exp

Russell Tobin is a company seeking a Systems Reliability Engineer for a contract role. The role involves contributing to SRE strategy, mentoring teams, and implementing best practices for system reliability and automation.

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Responsibilities

Contribute to the SRE strategy and establish best practices for release management, automation, and system reliability

Mentor and guide SRE, Engineering, and Product teams in adopting core SRE principles such as service ownership, reducing toil, and continuous improvement

Lead initiatives across SLIs/SLOs, observability, incident management, and postmortem practices, ensuring insights and learnings are captured and acted upon

Champion SRE practices by implementing repeatable templates for logging, monitoring, and alerting frameworks

Drive observability and monitoring excellence using tools such as Grafana, AppDynamics (AppD), and Sumo Logic, ensuring proactive detection and resolution of issues

Partner with engineering to design reliable, fault-tolerant systems and reduce operational toil through automation

Implement and leverage the Ansible Automation Platform to help teams automate infrastructure provisioning, configuration management, and event-driven workflows

Enable teams to automate operational events and infrastructure changes, reducing manual intervention and improving system resilience

Exercise sound judgment to ensure operational compliance with security, privacy, audit, disaster recovery, and other company requirements

Qualification

Site Reliability EngineeringAnsible Automation PlatformObservability toolsMulti-cloud environmentsTechnical expertise in scalabilityCustomer service skillsCommunication skillsProblem-solving capabilitiesInterpersonal skillsOrganizational skills

Required

Minimum of 5 years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, IT operations, or related fields

Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or equivalent experience (2 additional years in lieu of degree)

Technical expertise in system reliability, scalability, application design, and performance

Hands-on experience with observability and monitoring tools such as Grafana, AppDynamics, and Sumo Logic

Experience with automation platforms, particularly Ansible, for infrastructure and event-driven automation

Proven ability to mentor and guide engineers in adopting SRE practices and principles

Excellent communication and collaboration skills across diverse teams and vendors

Strong judgment and problem-solving capabilities

Experience working in multi-cloud environments

Strong interpersonal, organizational, communication, and customer service skills

Must be authorized to work in the U.S

Preferred

Experience applying ITIL, SRE and IT process best practices

Experience in tracking major incidents, rollbacks, and hotfixes; leading root cause analysis (RCA) processes; and ensuring resolution and completion of action items

Experience with technical engineering in IT operations