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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Slalom Flex (Project Based) - Site Reliability Engineer - **Company:** Slalom, LLC - **Location:** Atlanta, GA, United States - **Salary:** $145,600.0 - $176,800.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Disaster Recovery, Distributed Systems, Fault Tolerance, Performance Tuning, Reliability Engineering, Software Engineering - **Published:** August 23, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.disabledperson.com/jobs/74471640-slalom-flex-project-based-site-reliability-engineer ## About the Role * Deep experience building and scaling enterprise reliability, operational governance, observability, or SRE programs within complex technology organizations. * Proven success defining standards, policies, operating models, and governance frameworks from the ground up. * Strong understanding of reliability engineering concepts, including SLIs, SLOs, incident management, capacity planning, disaster recovery, performance optimization, and operational excellence practices. * Experience designing observability and monitoring strategies that provide actionable insights across distributed systems and modern cloud environments. * Demonstrated ability to operate effectively in highly ambiguous environments, transforming undefined concepts into practical, scalable solutions. * Exceptional stakeholder management and influencing skills, with a track record of aligning business, product, and technology leaders around a shared vision. * Ability to navigate organizational complexity and competing priorities while driving outcomes across multiple teams and functions. * Strategic mindset paired with a hands-on approach, capable of moving seamlessly between executive-level planning and execution details. * Strong communication skills with the ability to articulate technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences. * Passion for enabling engineering velocity while establishing the governance, risk management, security, and operational standards required for enterprise-scale growth. ## Description * Define and establish enterprise reliability standards, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practices, SLIs/SLOs, operational governance models, and engineering guardrails that enable scalable, resilient technology platforms. * Lead the design and implementation of observability, monitoring, alerting, incident management, and operational excellence frameworks that improve visibility, accelerate issue resolution, and drive continuous service improvement. * Partner closely with product, engineering, infrastructure, and business leaders to embed reliability, resilience, and operational readiness into the software development lifecycle. * Drive enterprise resilience initiatives including capacity planning, performance engineering, disaster recovery, business continuity, and fault-tolerance strategies. * Establish reliability metrics, operational processes, governance mechanisms, and accountability models that reduce operational risk and improve system health throughout modernization and transformation efforts. * Navigate complex organizational environments, aligning cross-functional stakeholders and driving consensus on reliability priorities, standards, and operating models. * Translate ambiguous business problems and evolving technology needs into clear strategies, scalable solutions, and measurable outcomes. * Enable product and engineering teams to innovate and move quickly while implementing the operational guardrails necessary for enterprise scale, security, governance, and reliability. * Serve as a trusted advisor to technology leadership, influencing strategic decisions related to platform reliability, operational maturity, and organizational readiness. ## Related Videos - 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