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Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

Merican IncAtlanta, GA🇺🇸United StatesPosted 7 Jul 2026

Why This Role Stands Out

You'll have the chance to elevate the reliability and scalability of critical applications using cutting-edge cloud technologies within a company known for its innovation. This hybrid role is perfect for a proactive SRE who thrives on automation, complex problem-solving, and collaborating within a dynamic team environment. Take this opportunity to further develop your skills in a supportive setting and make a significant impact.

Quick Overview

Work Type
Hybrid
Level
Mid Senior

Job Description

Job Title: Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

Location: Atlanta, GA (Hybrid)
Local Candidates Only

Work Schedule

Hybrid work model with rotating teams:

  • Team A: Onsite Thursday & Friday; Remote Monday Wednesday
  • Team B: Remote Thursday & Friday; Onsite Monday Wednesday
  • Teams rotate schedules weekly.
Job Summary

We are seeking a skilled Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to support highly available, business-critical applications across on-premises and AWS cloud environments. The ideal candidate will have strong expertise in DevOps, cloud infrastructure, automation, CI/CD, monitoring, and troubleshooting complex production systems. This role offers the opportunity to work with modern cloud technologies and contribute to the reliability, scalability, and performance of enterprise applications.

Key Responsibilities
  • Manage and optimize data streaming and API components in OpenShift (On-Premises) and AWS.
  • Review application APIs and processes to identify performance optimization opportunities.
  • Automate testing, including data quality validation, production deployments, and release processes.
  • Develop integrations between on-premises, AWS, and third-party tools such as ServiceNow, VersionOne, and Sumo Logic.
  • Collaborate with teams to define and implement SLIs and SLOs.
  • Monitor production environments, troubleshoot performance issues, conduct root cause analysis, and document findings.
  • Design, build, and maintain CI/CD pipelines for application artifacts, APIs, and data processing jobs.
  • Configure monitoring, alerting, and observability solutions to enable proactive issue detection.
  • Implement AWS security best practices, including IAM, HSM, encryption, and access controls.
  • Monitor cloud costs, generate usage reports, and recommend cost optimization strategies.
  • Design and implement solutions to address security vulnerabilities and compliance requirements.
  • Analyze infrastructure capacity and performance to support scalable and resilient systems.
  • Develop backup and disaster recovery strategies for critical applications and data.
  • Collaborate with architecture, infrastructure, and application teams to continuously improve system performance, reliability, and security.
Required Skills
  • Strong experience with AWS cloud services and cloud operations.
  • Hands-on experience with OpenShift, CloudFormation, Terraform, Ansible, Shell scripting, and Python.
  • Experience with Linux administration and enterprise infrastructure.
  • Knowledge of virtualization, networking, load balancers, firewalls, storage, backup, and monitoring tools.
  • Experience with CI/CD tools such as GitLab, GitHub, Jenkins, Maven, Gradle, and Nexus.
  • Experience with Software Release Management.
  • Strong troubleshooting and incident management skills for mission-critical systems.
  • Experience with automation, infrastructure orchestration, and configuration management.
Preferred Qualifications
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field (or equivalent experience).
  • 3+ years of DevOps/SysOps engineering experience with a focus on AWS.
  • 2+ years of application development experience involving data streaming and high-availability applications.
  • 1+ year of experience in a Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) environment preferred.
  • Overall 4 6 years of IT experience.

Skills

Shell
AWS
Encryption
Ansible
CloudFormation
Jenkins
Python
Terraform

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