Site Reliability Engineer - W2 Role

Role:

Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

Location:

Palo Alto, CA (Onsite from Day 1)

Job Type:

Contract (W2)

Skill Matrix:

Name Required Programming Yes SRE Yes Grafana Yes Prometheus Yes AWS Yes Cloud Infrastructure Yes Linux Yes UNIX Yes Top skills required for this role:

Programming:

Proficiency in languages like Python, Java, or Go.

System Administration:

Strong understanding of Linux/Unix systems.

Cloud Infrastructure:

Experience with AWS Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Knowledge of tools like Terraform or Ansible.

Monitoring Tools:

Proficiency with tools such as

Prometheus, Grafana, or Datadog Job Description/ Responsibilities:

Automation and Tooling:

SREs write code to automate operational tasks, such as provisioning, configuration changes, and system updates to reduce manual work and human error.

System Monitoring and Alerting:

Developing and maintaining observability stacks (logs, metrics, tracing) to proactively detect issues before they impact users.

Incident Response and On-Call:

Managing 24/7 on-call rotation to respond to, troubleshoot, and resolve production incidents. Post-Incident Reviews (Postmortems): Conducting blameless, in-depth reviews of incidents to identify root causes and implement preventive measures.

Capacity Planning:

Analyzing system resource utilization to ensure infrastructure can scale to handle future load requirements.

Performance Optimization:

Identifying and fixing bottlenecks in software and infrastructure to improve system efficiency and responsiveness.

Error Budget Management:

Setting and managing Service Level Objectives (SLOs) and Service Level Indicators (SLIs) to determine if a service is reliable enough to allow new feature deployments.

Chaos Engineering:

Testing system resilience by intentionally introducing failures to ensure systems are fault-tolerant

Years of Experience:

8+ Years of Experience