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# Sr. SRE Engineer

- **Company:** Sun Inc.
- **Location:** Jersey City, NJ, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Contract
- **Skills:** Application Performance Management, Bash Shell, Continuous Integration, DevOps, Monitoring of Systems, Python (Programming Language), Performance Tuning, Reliability Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering Practices, Prometheus, Scripting, Cloud Platform System, System Availability, Grafana, Software Troubleshooting, Reliability of Systems, Performance Monitor, Splunk
- **Published:** November 13, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.dice.com/job-detail/8f2b3eed-e3b8-409c-b9de-8fcd5f583b18

## About the Role

* Solid experience in Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) / Production Engineering / Production Support.
 * Hands-on experience with Splunk for log monitoring, troubleshooting, and analysis.
 * Experience with Prometheus and Grafana for metrics monitoring, dashboarding, and alerting.
 * Good understanding of Linux/Unix environments and production troubleshooting.
 * Experience with scripting/automation using Python, Shell/Bash, or similar technologies.
 * Understanding of application performance, infrastructure monitoring, and distributed production environments.
 * Knowledge of CI/CD, DevOps practices, and cloud environments is desirable.
 * Strong troubleshooting, analytical, and incident-management skills.

## Description

Job Summary: We are looking for an experienced Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) with strong exposure to production engineering and monitoring/observability tools such as Splunk, Prometheus, and Grafana. The candidate will be responsible for ensuring the reliability, availability, performance, and operational stability of production applications and infrastructure., * Monitor and maintain production systems to ensure high availability and reliability.

 * Build and manage monitoring, alerting, and observability solutions using Splunk, Prometheus, and Grafana.
 * Perform production troubleshooting, incident analysis, and root cause analysis (RCA).
 * Identify recurring production issues and implement automation or permanent fixes.
 * Define and monitor key application and infrastructure metrics, alerts, dashboards, and health checks.
 * Work closely with development, infrastructure, DevOps, and operations teams during production incidents.
 * Support incident management and participate in production/on-call support as required.
 * Improve system reliability through automation, proactive monitoring, capacity planning, and performance optimization.
 * Contribute to SRE practices around SLIs, SLOs, alerting, incident response, and post-incident reviews.