Sr. SRE Engineer

Position: Sr. SRE Engineer
Location: Seattle, WA (Hybrid and Locals Needed)
Duration: Long term Contract

Job Description:

1. Job Summary/Role Description (General Information)

• As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer, you will play a critical role in supporting application developers and Operations personnel by providing expert guidance on Application and Infrastructure best practices from a reliability perspective.

• Your primary focus will be Observability, toil reduction through automation, and bringing in reliability with an emphasis on solving operations issues.

• Must have at least 5 years of SRE experience in large programs with a focus on toil reduction, implementation of full-stack observability, and reduction of MTTD and MTTR.

• Must have a good understanding of Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) principles and practices.

• Should be a strong team player and enjoy collaborating with different teams, as well as share knowledge and strive for continuous improvement self and team.

2. Core Skills/Technical Requirements

• Experience with scripting in Python, PowerShell, Bash, Shell, Perl (any one of these).

• Strong experience on one or more Observability tools like Splunk, AppDynamics, Dynatrace, Datadog.

• Experience in Observability Dashboard creation, Synthetic Monitoring, and Real User Monitoring (RUM).

• Experience working on tools like Remedy, ServiceNow, Confluence, Jira.

• Experience in ITSM process including Incident, Problem, and Change management.

• Experience in setting up Service Map/Distributed Traces in the Observability tool (good to have).

• Knowledge of operating systems like Linux/Windows, including understanding of networking. (good to have)

• Experience in software architecture, distributed systems, and development languages like Java or .Net. (good to have)

3. Soft Skills/Other Requirements

• Should possess strong analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills.

• Excellent communication skills along with leadership skills.