Position: Site Reliability Engineer
Location: Pittsburgh, PA Duration: 6+ Months contract
Job Description
A Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) applies software engineering principles to IT operations and infrastructure to keep large-scale websites| applications| and cloud systems fast| reliable| and scalable.
Core Responsibilities Incident Response & Troubleshooting: Handle production alerts| investigate root causes| resolve outages| and lead post-incident reviews to prevent future failures.
Automation & Toil Reduction: Write code and scripts (using languages like Python| Java| or Ruby) to automate manual operations| routine maintenance| and system deployments.
Monitoring & Observability: Track system health using metrics| logs| and traces to measure latency| traffic| errors| and saturation via the AWS SRE Guide.
Reliability Standards: Define and manage Service-Level Objectives (SLOs)| Service-Level Indicators (SLIs)| Service-Level Agreements (SLAs)| and error budgets to balance speed with stability.
Capacity Planning: Analyze user traffic and usage patterns to forecast future hardware and infrastructure demands.
Bridges Dev & Ops: Work between software developers and traditional operations teams to ensure new features can run safely in production
Education: At least a bachelor s degree (or equivalent experience) in Computer Science, Software/Electronics Engineering, Information Systems, or closely related field is required