Site Reliability Engineer

THE JUDGE GROUP, INC.
Buffalo, United States of America
2 days ago

Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Working hours
Regular working hours
Languages
English
Compensation
$ 146K

Job location

Remote
Buffalo, United States of America

Tech stack

Java
.NET
Azure
Cloud Computing
Continuous Integration
Software Debugging
DevOps
Python
Reliability Engineering
Software Engineering
Scripting (Bash/Python/Go/Ruby)
HybridCloud
Performance Monitor
Dynatrace

Job description

  • Partner with application teams to instrument services using OpenTelemetry and Dynatrace

  • Improve reliability, availability, and performance of critical production applications

  • Analyze system behavior and implement proactive monitoring and alerting

  • Contribute to release engineering processes and CI/CD pipeline improvements

  • Design and implement automation solutions to reduce manual operations

  • Support hybrid environments (legacy + modern/cloud-based systems)

  • Drive adoption of SRE best practices (SLIs/SLOs, error budgets, observability)

  • Collaborate with engineering, platform, and operations teams to enhance delivery tooling

  • Act as a technical influencer to improve engineering practices across teams

Requirements

  • Strong software engineering background

  • Ability to read, debug, and modify application code (Java, .NET, Python, or similar)

  • Experience with observability and instrumentation tools

  • OpenTelemetry, Dynatrace (or equivalent)

  • Solid understanding of Site Reliability Engineering principles

  • Hands-on experience with:

  • Monitoring & alerting

  • Automation (scripting, tooling)

  • Incident response & root cause analysis

  • Familiarity with DevOps practices and CI/CD pipelines

  • Experience working in enterprise-scale or complex environments

  • Strong communication and collaboration skills

  • Ability to work with diverse application teams and influence change

Preferred Qualifications (Nice to Have)

  • Experience in financial services or regulated environments

  • Exposure to large-scale platform rollouts or "factory model" transformations

  • Experience with release engineering practices

  • Familiarity with hybrid cloud environments (Azure preferred)

  • Knowledge of modern DevOps tools and delivery platforms

  • Experience modernizing legacy applications

Apply for this position