Site Reliability Engineer

Summary

Our client is a well-established top-tier financial institution with a national footprint and a reputation for stability and innovation in the banking sector. Theyre building out their Site Reliability Engineering practice and looking for a Senior SRE to help shape it from the ground up someone who wants real influence over how reliability is done not just another cog in an established machine.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement advanced monitoring frameworks and drive adoption of monitoring best practices across engineering teams.
• Partner with application teams to improve observability and get ahead of incidents before they happen.
• Lead incident response for high-severity events providing technical direction that keeps resolution fast and disruption minimal.
• Evangelize SRE principles and help build out the practices technical standards as it matures.
• Automate manual monitoring and response tasks; champion infrastructure-as-code initiatives and drive toil reduction across the org.
• Own post-incident reviews and drive follow-through on corrective actions.
• Analyze performance trends and capacity utilization to surface improvement opportunities.
• Support 24/7 monitoring operations for mission-critical systems processing significant transaction volume.
• Optimize alerting strategies to cut noise and sharpen mean time to detection.
• Maintain and evolve monitoring dashboards and reporting.
• Evaluate high-complexity changes and establish risk mitigation strategies.
• Build out SLIs/SLOs for critical services in partnership with product teams and introduce error budget concepts to guide reliability/velocity trade-off conversations.
• Foster knowledge sharing and document tribal knowledge across the team.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science Engineering or related field or equivalent experience.
• 5 years of experience in software development or site reliability engineering.
• Experience with high-availability mission-critical systems.
• Proficiency with modern monitoring platforms.
• Strong troubleshooting and crisis-response capabilities.
• Broad development range comfortable from scripting through application development to infrastructure-as-code.
• Familiarity with DORA metrics and DevOps measurement frameworks.
• Solid understanding of network protocols databases and system architecture.
• Understanding of deployment pipeline reliability and release engineering practices.
• Strong communication skills for cross-team coordination.

Required Experience:

IC