Site Reliability Engineer

About the Opportunity

We are seeking a seasoned and passionate Site Reliability Engineer for a high-impact contract engagement with one of our key clients, a leader in the marketing-tech sector. This is not just a typical SRE role; you will be the foundational expert responsible for spearheading the adoption of SRE culture and practices within the client's engineering organization.

You will act as a consultant, engineer, and evangelist, guiding our client on their journey from a traditional operations model to a modern, proactive, and data-driven reliability framework. If you are passionate about building resilient systems and empowering teams to own their reliability, this is the perfect challenge for you.

What You Will Do (Key Responsibilities)

As the SRE Adoption Lead, you will be responsible for:

• Strategy & Roadmap: Assess the current state of infrastructure, monitoring, and release processes. Develop and champion a strategic roadmap for SRE adoption tailored to the client's needs.
• Establish SRE Fundamentals: Define, measure, and establish Service Level Indicators (SLIs), Service Level Objectives (SLOs), and Service Level Agreements (SLAs) for critical services in collaboration with product and engineering teams.
• Implement Error Budgets: Introduce and operationalize the concept of error budgets to drive a balanced approach between feature development and reliability work.
• Enhance Observability: Architect and implement a robust observability stack (metrics, logging, tracing) to provide deep insights into system health and performance. You will move the team from basic monitoring to proactive observability.
• Automate Everything: Identify and eliminate operational toil through automation. Design and build automated solutions for infrastructure provisioning, configuration management, and incident response.
• Champion Blameless Culture: Lead blameless post-mortems and incident reviews to identify root causes and drive systemic improvements.
• Improve CI/CD & Release Engineering: Partner with development teams to integrate reliability and availability best practices into the CI/CD pipeline, enabling safer and more frequent deployments.
• Mentor & Educate: Act as a subject matter expert and mentor for the client's engineering teams. Conduct workshops and create documentation to build SRE knowledge across the organization.

Who You Are (Required Skills & Experience)

• Experience: 3+ years of hands-on experience in a Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, or Systems Engineering role.
• Cloud Expertise: Deep expertise in at least one major cloud provider (AWS, GCP, or Azure), including networking, compute, and managed services.
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Proven proficiency with IaC tools such as Terraform (preferred), Ansible, or Pulumi.
• Containerization: Strong, hands-on experience with containerization and orchestration technologies, primarily Kubernetes and Docker.
• Observability Stack: Demonstrable experience with modern observability tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack, Jaeger, Datadog, New Relic).
• CI/CD: Solid understanding and practical experience with CI/CD principles and tools (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab CI, ArgoCD).
• Scripting & Automation: Strong scripting skills in a language like Python, Go, or Bash.
• Communication: Excellent communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills. You must have the ability to influence technical and non-technical stakeholders without direct authority.

What Makes You Stand Out (Preferred Qualifications)

• Proven experience leading an SRE transformation or adoption initiative in a previous role.
• Experience in defining SLOs and implementing error budget policies that drove tangible business outcomes.
• Familiarity with chaos engineering principles and tools (e.g., Gremlin, Chaos Toolkit).
• Experience with service mesh technologies (e.g., Istio, Linkerd).
• Relevant certifications (e.g., CKA, AWS/GCP Certified DevOps Engineer).

The Engagement Offers

• A pivotal role with significant autonomy to shape the reliability culture of a growing organization.
• The opportunity to make a measurable and lasting impact on the client's products and services.
• A collaborative environment with direct access to client leadership and engineering teams.
• A competitive contract rate.

How to Apply

If you are an SRE who loves to build not just systems, but also culture and capability, we want to hear from you. Please submit your resume along with a brief cover letter outlining your specific experience with driving SRE adoption.