Site Reliability Engineer
VelvetGold Technologies Limited Liability Company
Chicago, IL, United States
4 days ago
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Role details
Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Experience level
Expert
Experience required
5 years minimum
Compensation
$130,000.0
Working hours
Regular working hours
Job source
Tech stack
Amazon Web Services
Microsoft Azure
Bash Shell
Continuous Integration
DevOps
Domain Name System (DNS)
Fault Tolerance
Python (Programming Language)
Linux System Administration
Networking Basics
Reliability Engineering
Site Reliability Engineering Practices
+18 more
Ansible
Prometheus
Runbook
TCP/IP
Datadog
Data Logging
Pulumi
Scripting
Transport Layer Security
Load Balancing
Cloud Platform System
Grafana
Kubernetes
Infrastructure Automation Frameworks
Low Latency
Drift Detection
Terraform
Software Version Control
Job description
- Define and instrument SLIs and SLOs for production services in partnership with development teams, and manage error budgets as a formal input to release decisions
- Build and maintain observability systems : metrics, logging, and tracing (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, OpenTelemetry, or current stack equivalents), with alerting aligned to error budgets rather than raw thresholds
- Serve as an on-call engineer for incident response: triage, mitigation, stakeholder communication, and written post-incident review leading to root-cause determination and assigned remediation
- Automate operational runbooks and recurring tasks, with a stated objective of reducing toil quarter over quarter rather than accommodating it
- Improve deployment reliability through CI/CD pipeline health, progressive rollout and rollback capability, and change-failure reduction in partnership with development teams
- Manage infrastructure-as-code (Terraform) across environments with drift detection and review-based change control
- Conduct load, stress, and resilience testing to validate capacity assumptions before production traffic does
- Support capacity planning, including growth modeling, cost-per-request analysis, and documented scaling thresholds
- Maintain backup and recovery procedures, including scheduled restore exercises measured against stated recovery objectives
- Participate in architecture reviews from a reliability perspective: failure modes, dependency risk, and graceful degradation
Requirements
- 5+ years in site reliability, DevOps, or production systems engineering, with direct on-call experience for production services
- Strong Linux systems administration and scripting proficiency (Python, Bash, or Go), with all code maintained under version control
- Production experience with a major cloud platform (AWS, Azure, or GCP), including compute, networking, and managed-service tradeoffs
- Hands-on Kubernetes production experience covering cluster operations, workload reliability, and upgrade planning
- Practical SLO, SLI, or error-budget experience, including a documented instance in which error-budget analysis informed a release or staffing decision
- Demonstrated observability capability: constructing dashboards and alerting from first principles and identifying actionable signals during incident conditions
- Incident management experience, including authored postmortems with remediation carried through completion
- Networking fundamentals: TCP/IP, DNS, TLS, load balancing, and latency diagnostics
- Clear written communication; postmortems, runbooks, and capacity plans are principal deliverables of this position
- Ability to work on-site or hybrid in Chicago, IL, and to carry a share of the on-call rotation, * Resilience or chaos engineering experience (Gremlin, LitmusChaos, or equivalent fault-injection tooling)
- Go or Python development beyond scripting, for internal tooling and agents
- Observability stack administration (Prometheus/Alertmanager, Grafana, OpenTelemetry collectors)
- Infrastructure automation at scale (Terraform modules, Ansible, or Pulumi across multiple environments)
- Experience in a regulated or high-availability domain: fintech, healthcare, trading, or logistics
- Experience establishing SRE practices in an organization transitioning from traditional operations
Benefits & conditions
- Starting salary: $130,000 per year, commensurate with experience and qualifications
- Health, dental, and vision insurance
- Paid time off and company holidays
- 401(k) with company match
- Certification and conference support, * 401(k)
- 401(k) matching
- Dental insurance
- Health insurance
- Life insurance
- Paid time off
- Referral program
- Vision insurance
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