Freelance: Site Reliability Engineer

Site Reliability Engineer II (SRE II)

We are looking for an experienced Site Reliability Engineer II to join a high performing technology organization focused on building scalable, reliable, and highly available platforms. You will work closely with software engineers, platform teams, and product stakeholders to improve system reliability, operational excellence, and engineering productivity.

As an SRE II, you will combine software engineering expertise with infrastructure and operations knowledge to automate manual processes, improve observability, and ensure production systems remain stable and performant as the business grows.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain reliable, scalable, and secure production systems.
• Develop software and automation solutions that reduce operational toil.
• Own services throughout their full lifecycle from development to production operations.
• Monitor platform health, reliability, performance, and capacity.
• Participate in on call rotations and incident response activities.
• Perform root cause analysis and implement long term reliability improvements.
• Improve monitoring, alerting, and observability across critical services.
• Drive Continuous Delivery and deployment best practices.
• Collaborate with engineering teams on architecture and design decisions.
• Create and maintain operational documentation, runbooks, and knowledge sharing materials.
• Identify performance bottlenecks and reduce technical debt.
• Support cloud infrastructure and platform scaling initiatives.

Required Skills

• Experience as a Site Reliability Engineer, Platform Engineer, DevOps Engineer, or Infrastructure Engineer.
• Strong software engineering background with experience in one or more programming languages such as Python, Go, Java, or JavaScript.
• Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems and microservice architectures.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform.
• Experience with container technologies including Docker and Kubernetes.
• Strong understanding of CI/CD pipelines and automation.
• Experience with monitoring and observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, New Relic, Splunk, or OpenTelemetry.
• Experience handling production incidents and performing root cause analysis.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.

Nice to Have

• Experience supporting large scale consumer facing platforms.
• Experience with service ownership and platform engineering.
• Knowledge of reliability engineering principles including SLI, SLO, and SLA management.
• Experience optimizing cloud costs and operational efficiency.

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