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Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Motion Recruitment Partners, LLCIrving, TX🇺🇸United StatesPosted 26 Aug 2026

Why This Role Stands Out

This contract role offers a fantastic opportunity to leverage your expertise in AWS and MongoDB to directly impact production stability and incident resolution within a dynamic technology environment. You'll thrive here if you're a seasoned SRE with a passion for problem-solving and driving continuous improvement in high-availability systems. Apply now to gain valuable experience and contribute to critical infrastructure.

Quick Overview

Seniority
Mid Senior
Work mode
On Site
Location
Irving, TX, United States
Posted
2 days ago
FirebaseMicroservicesMongoDBAWSNew RelicBashGitHub ActionsGitLab CIIoTJenkinsKafkaKubernetesPostmanPythonRabbitMQ

Job Description

Our client is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer for a month 6-month contract in Irving, TX. Will be working on an onsite schedule.

Contract Duration: 6 Months

Required Skills & Experience
  • Bachelors/4 Year Degree
  • 5+ years of relevant work experience
  • Experience with on-call rotations and 24/7 production environments.
  • Work cross-functionally with the various teams in the organization and help establish SLOs and achieve those SLOs.
  • 5+ years of experience in SRE, DevOps, Production Support, or similar operational roles.
  • Strong hands-on experience with AWS services and cloud-native architectures.
  • Proficiency with MongoDB administration and troubleshooting.
  • Experience with New Relic or similar APM/observability platforms.
  • Experience using additional tools like Postman, Intune, and Firebase, Service Now, Cloudwatch.
  • Strong understanding of Linux systems, networking, and distributed systems.
  • Solid scripting skills (Python, Bash, or similar).
  • 5+ years Monitoring and Alarming in all environments and familiar with tools like Mongo Charts, New Relic, Cloudwatch, Service Now.
  • Proven experience managing high-severity incidents and driving RCA processes.
  • Familiarity with CI/CD tools (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, etc.).


Desired Skills & Experience
  • Experience with container orchestration (ECS, EKS, Kubernetes).
  • Knowledge of message queues (Kafka, SQS, RabbitMQ).
  • Exposure to microservices architectures.
  • Certifications such as AWS Solutions Architect, AWS SysOps, or MongoDB DBA.
  • Working experience with IoT devices, and Microsoft Intune.


What You Will Be Doing
Production Support & Incident Management
  • Serve as a primary responder for production incidents, ensuring rapid triage, mitigation, and resolution.
  • Lead root cause analysis (RCA) and drive long term corrective actions.
  • Maintain and improve incident response processes, runbooks, and escalation paths.
  • Collaborate with engineering, QA, and product teams to prevent recurrence of issues.


AWS Infrastructure Operations
  • Support and optimize AWS services such as EC2, ECS/EKS, Lambda, S3, CloudWatch, IAM, RDS, and VPC networking.
  • Monitor system health, performance, and capacity across cloud environments.
  • Implement infrastructure best practices around reliability, scalability, and cost efficiency.
  • Assist with deployments, environment configuration, and CI/CD pipelines.


Database & Storage Support
  • Manage and troubleshoot MongoDB clusters, including performance tuning, replication, backups, and failover.
  • Diagnose query performance issues and collaborate with developers on schema optimization.
  • Ensure data integrity, availability, and recovery readiness.


Monitoring, Observability & Alerting
  • Use New Relic, CloudWatch, and other observability tools to monitor application and infrastructure performance.
  • Build dashboards, alerts, and telemetry that provide actionable insights.
  • Continuously refine monitoring thresholds to reduce noise and improve signal quality.

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