Site Reliability Engineer NEX
Seventy Seven Energy LLC
Houston, United States of America
4 days ago
Role details
Contract type
Permanent contract Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours) Working hours
Regular working hours Languages
English Experience level
IntermediateJob location
Houston, United States of America
Tech stack
Java
Airflow
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Google BigQuery
Cloud Storage
Continuous Integration
DevOps
Distributed Systems
Data Flow Control
Github
Identity and Access Management
Python
Reliability Engineering
Prometheus
Software Engineering
Data Logging
Google Cloud Platform
Cloud Platform System
Cloud Monitoring
System Availability
Grafana
Reliability of Systems
Containerization
Gitlab-ci
Kubernetes
Information Technology
Terraform
Docker
Go
Job description
The NexTier Technology team is looking for a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to help build, scale, and maintain highly reliable systems on Google Cloud Platform (GCP). This role blends software engineering with infrastructure expertise to ensure our services are performant, resilient, and cost-efficient. Candidates will work closely with engineering teams to improve system reliability, automate operations, and embed best practices across the platform.
Detailed Description:
- Design, implement, and manage scalable, reliable infrastructure on GCP
- Maintain and improve system availability, performance, and latency
- Build and manage infrastructure as code using tools like Terraform or similar
- Develop automation to reduce manual operational work
- Monitor systems using observability tools (metrics, logs, tracing) and respond to incidents
- Participate in on-call rotations and lead incident response and postmortems
- Collaborate with development teams to improve service reliability and deployment processes
- Optimize cloud resource usage and cost efficiency
- Implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines for reliable software delivery
- Define and track SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets
Requirements
- 3+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, or similar roles
- Strong experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) services (e.g., Compute Engine, GKE, Cloud Run, Cloud Storage)
- Experience with containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes)
- Proficiency in at least one programming language (e.g., Python, Go, Java)
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform preferred)
- Solid understanding of networking, security, and distributed systems
- Experience with monitoring and logging tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, Cloud Monitoring)
- Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and automation tools
- Hands-on experience with Google Cloud Platform, including:
- GCP: GKE, Compute Engine, Cloud Storage, Pub/Sub (or equivalents)
- Cloud Monitoring & Logging
- BigQuery
- Dataflow
- Datastream
- IAM and networking
- Composer/AIrflow
- Kubernetes: deployment, scaling, reliability patterns
- CI/CD: GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or similar
- Observability: GCP Cloud Monitoring, Logging
- Experience operating systems in 24/7 production environments, * Bachelor's degree in Business, Information Technology, Computer Science, or a related field.
- 3+ years experience in Site Reliability Engineering, Cloud Platform Engineering, or DevOps
- 3+ years operating production workloads on Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
- Ability to understand and speak English at a level of proficiency allowing employee to issue, receive and respond to both safety and operations-related directions in English
Preferred Qualifications:
- Oil and Gas Industry knowledge
- Technology/Digital Industry knowledge