Sr. Site Reliability Engineer

Job Title: Sr. Site Reliability Engineer
Location: Celebration, FL 34747 (Onsite at least 1x per week, typically Wednesdays; subject to change)
Duration: 12 Months
Schedule: Potential on-call rotation
 
Position Overview

• The Sr. Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) will be responsible for ensuring the stability, reliability, and performance of enterprise systems.
• This role involves leading incident retrospectives, troubleshooting critical issues, driving long-term improvements, and supporting the design and automation of lower environments to enable reliable release and deployment activities.
• The SRE will work closely with infrastructure, application, and security teams to promote a DevOps culture and enhance operational excellence.

 
Key Responsibilities

• Lead incident retrospectives, coordinate troubleshooting efforts, and identify root causes of system failures.
• Develop and implement long-term solutions and interim mitigations to improve availability and reduce recovery time.
• Design, build, and manage lower environments to support release, deployment, and testing activities.
• Automate infrastructure, operations, monitoring, and deployment processes across Windows, Linux, and Kubernetes platforms.
• Create observability solutions leveraging telemetry, monitoring, and logging tools to ensure proactive issue detection and resolution.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure system stability, security, performance, and capacity management.
• Apply SDLC, ITIL, and industry best practices to incident and problem management for continuous improvement.
• Provide expert-level troubleshooting and support for application- and infrastructure-related incidents.
• Promote DevOps principles, foster collaboration among engineers and developers, and drive adoption of automation and reliability practices.
• Stay current with emerging technologies and recommend improvements to architecture, processes, and tools.
• Lead and participate in technical projects to ensure successful delivery of reliable, scalable systems.
• Partner with Security Operations to implement and maintain secure solutions.
• Maintain accurate system documentation and knowledge-sharing practices.

 
Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent work experience.
• Minimum 5 years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, Systems Administration, or related roles.
• Proficiency in systems administration across Windows, Linux, and Kubernetes environments.
• Strong troubleshooting expertise in distributed systems, networking, performance, and security.
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud).
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD tools (GitLab, Ansible, Azure DevOps).
• Proficiency in configuration management and infrastructure-as-code tools (Terraform, Ansible, Chef).
• Applied understanding of observability and monitoring tools.
• Strong scripting and programming skills in languages such as Python, Go, Java, Rust, Perl, Ruby, PowerShell, or C/C++.
• Experience working in Agile environments and applying SDLC and ITIL practices.
• Proven ability to lead technical initiatives and collaborate across teams.

 
Preferred Qualifications

• Experience designing and managing lower environments to support software release and deployment.
• Knowledge of AWX or similar automation tools.
• Experience working in highly regulated or large-scale enterprise environments.
• Demonstrated ability to mentor peers and drive adoption of SRE and DevOps best practices.
• Familiarity with emerging data engineering tools and methodologies.