Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Job summary

This hands-on Senior Site Reliability Engineer improves the reliability, observability, performance, and operational efficiency of IT services supporting a mission-critical electricity system. The role administers and automates Splunk and other monitoring platforms, builds Terraform-based infrastructure, and develops automation with Python, PowerShell, or Bash. It also engineers high availability and disaster recovery, supports incident response and resilience testing, and uses AI-assisted development tools to reduce operational toil.

Benefits

Qualifications

• At least 5 years of experience in SRE, DevOps, systems engineering, platform engineering, or IT operations.
• Experience with enterprise monitoring and observability platforms; hands-on Splunk experience is strongly preferred.
• Willingness and aptitude to develop expertise in Splunk administration, engineering, and automation if direct experience is absent.
• Experience designing, deploying, or managing infrastructure with Terraform and Infrastructure as Code practices.
• Strong production scripting and automation experience with Python, PowerShell, Bash, or similar technologies.
• Experience delivering automation that measurably reduces manual effort in an enterprise environment.
• Ability to review, troubleshoot, and refine code produced by engineering teams or AI-assisted development platforms.
• Knowledge of distributed systems, networking, enterprise infrastructure, and cloud platforms.
• Familiarity with SRE principles, including service-level objectives, error budgets, observability, and toil reduction.
• Ability to analyze and troubleshoot complex technical systems.
• Preferred: experience in mission-critical, highly available, or regulated environments.
• Preferred: experience with AI-assisted development tools, ITIL processes, performance testing, capacity planning, resilience testing, or disaster recovery validation.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain observability, monitoring, logging, alerting, and telemetry platforms.
• Administer and automate the Splunk platform, including data onboarding, indexing, dashboards, access controls, and platform health.
• Automate Splunk onboarding, configuration, monitoring, and operational workflows.
• Develop KPIs and dashboards for business and IT service health.
• Implement high availability, disaster recovery, and automated failover patterns.
• Plan and execute resilience and failover testing with infrastructure and application teams.
• Conduct performance testing, capacity modeling, forecasting, and right-sizing.
• Support major incident response and service restoration.
• Identify and eliminate manual operational toil through scalable automation.
• Develop automation solutions, integrations, and operational tools using scripting languages.
• Deploy and manage infrastructure with Terraform and Infrastructure as Code practices.
• Review, validate, troubleshoot, and refine AI-generated code.
• Address observability gaps, improve production readiness, and prevent repeat incidents.

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