Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

Role Name : Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)
Location: Englewood, NJ Local Candidates Only
Client: Versant
Rate: $55- 60/hr on W2 or 120K Per Year
Visa : Any Visa
Experience : 4+ Relevant Experience
Interview: In-Person Interview Required
Work Arrangement: Onsite
On-Call: Must be willing to participate in a 24/7 on-call rotation as needed

Job Description:

We are seeking an experienced Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to support and improve the reliability, performance, and scalability of large-scale digital platforms. The ideal candidate will have strong expertise in observability, CI/CD automation, cloud infrastructure, scripting, and distributed systems, with experience supporting web, mobile, and OTT applications.

Key Responsibilities:

Support and enhance observability (monitoring, logging, alerting) across production systems
Help maintain SLIs/SLOs for key services
Participate in evaluating services for production readiness
Collaborate with development teams to identify reliability risks and improve system architecture
Contribute to automation of operations, including CI/CD pipelines, incident response, and infrastructure provisioning
Participate in incident response and on-call rotations for critical services
Contribute to post-incident analysis and drive reliability improvements
Partner with security, infrastructure, and product teams to support performance, compliance, and operational excellence
Must-Haves
Willingness to work onsite and participate in a 24/7 on-call rotation as needed
5+ years of experience managing and supporting high-traffic digital platforms
Strong experience with CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation
Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS and/or Google Cloud Platform
Solid scripting skills (e.g., Python, Bash, Groovy)
Hands-on experience with observability and monitoring tools like Datadog, New Relic, AppDynamics, or similar
Understanding of web, mobile, and OTT architectures
Experience supporting large scale websites, Mobile and OTT applications, microservices, APIs, and distributed systems
Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Ansible, Terraform, or Chef
Familiarity with performance testing tools like JMeter or k6