Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

NextGen Staffing
Kalamazoo, United States of America
3 days ago

Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Working hours
Regular working hours
Languages
English
Experience level
Senior

Job location

Kalamazoo, United States of America

Tech stack

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Bash
Big Data
Continuous Integration
ETL
DevOps
Monitoring of Systems
Information Technology Operations
Python
Powershell
Software Maintenance
Reliability Engineering
Software Engineering
Software Systems
Scripting (Bash/Python/Go/Ruby)
Cloud Platform System
Kubernetes
Databricks

Job description

The Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) is responsible for improving the reliability, availability, performance, and operability of client' supported software systems. This role combines software engineering and IT operations to automate operational work, monitor system performance, and reduce toil. The SRE establishes and manages monitoring, alerting, incident response, and problem management practices to ensure applications remain available and performant during updates and failures. The role partners with engineering, architecture, and product teams to define reliability standards and production readiness requirements. SRE is a practical implementation of DevOps focused on maintaining software quality in fast-paced development environments.

Requirements

  • Strong grounding in SRE/DevOps practices: incident management, blameless postmortems, SLOs/SLIs, error budgets, production readiness.
  • Experience building/operating monitoring and alerting, and using logs/metrics to diagnose issues.
  • Automation/scripting skills (e.g., Python, PowerShell, Bash) and ability to reduce manual operational work.
  • Strong understanding of cloud-based platforms such as Azure DataBricks + Unity Catalog, AWS S3 and RDS.
  • Strong experience in ETL / ELT work.
  • Understanding of CI/CD concepts, safe deployment patterns, rollback strategies, and change risk controls.

Preferred

  • Experience with cloud environments and infrastructure-as-code.
  • Experience with large datasets (Multi-million row datasets).
  • Experience with container orchestration and modern runtime platforms (where applicable).
  • Experience building dashboards and reliability reporting for executives and delivery teams.

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