Senior SRE

Job#: 3051451

Job Description:
Senior SRE

Location: Austin, Texas (Hybrid)

Role Overview

We are looking for a skilled engineer with disciplines that incorporate aspects of software systems engineering and operations. This role focuses on developing better ways of managing and operating applications, including AI/ML-driven approaches to observability and reliability. The successful candidate will evangelize an SRE mindset and solve problems through systematization.

Key Responsibilities

• Identify opportunities to build innovative tools and solve operations problems on large enterprise and mission-critical applications.
• Create scripts to automate operational tasks and incorporate solutions into infrastructure.
• Design and implement AI/ML-driven automation pipelines, observability enhancements, and proactive operational response systems.
• Lead the expansion of automation coverage for deployment, monitoring, alerting, and self-healing workflows.
• Collaborate with Engineering, Scrum, and Ops resources to provide technical expertise on initiatives for system availability and reliability.
• Triage alerts and diagnose/resolve critical issues, managing changes with clear communication.
• Develop tools, frameworks, and instrumentation to validate and increase rollout success for applications.
• Champion AIOps platform adoption and ML-assisted observability practices.
• Coordinate capacity planning using data-driven trend analysis and ML-informed forecasting.
• Develop CI/CD orchestration systems to reduce friction for software delivery to production.
• Perform real-time troubleshooting of mission-critical application workflows.
• Participate in on-call support.

Required Qualifications

Education: A bachelor's degree in computer science or a related discipline is required.

Experience: 6-8 years of experience with enterprise-level administration and support, writing automation scripts, building application dashboards for proactive monitoring, and practicing SDLC and process improvements. Experience should include hands-on enterprise systems administration, monitoring, and deployment activities.

Technical Skills:

• Experience with Windows 2019/2022 and Linux hosted via Virtual Machine.
• Experience in Cloud application configuration, deployment, support, and migration; Google Cloud Platform/PCF is a plus.
• Knowledge of IP networking including DNS, DHCP, firewalls, and IP routing.
• Familiarity with large-scale distributed systems and high-availability architecture.
• Linux and Windows system administration, troubleshooting, and tuning.
• Development experience in one or more programming languages: .NET, PowerShell, Java, Python, Bash.
• Knowledge of one or more databases: SQL, Oracle, MongoDB.
• Working knowledge of Actimize.
• Knowledge of one or more Message Brokers: Solace, RabbitMQ, IBM MQ, Kafka.
• Knowledge of Splunk, AppDynamics, or similar observability tools.
• Demonstrated experience applying AI/ML or AIOps approaches in production environments.

Preferred Qualifications

• Financial services industry experience.
• Experience with Agile methodologies.
• Hands-on experience with AIOps platforms or ML-driven observability tooling.
• Experience integrating AI/ML capabilities into CI/CD or operational automation workflows.
• Familiarity with CI/CD tools such as Harness, Jenkins, or GitHub Actions, or GitOps concepts.
• Exposure to container orchestration (Kubernetes, OpenShift) or cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform).

Everforth Apex is a world-class IT services company that serves thousands of clients across the globe. When you join Everforth Apex, you become part of a team that values innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning. We offer quality career resources, training, certifications, development opportunities, and a comprehensive benefits package. Our commitment to excellence is reflected in many awards, including ClearlyRateds Best of Staffing in Talent Satisfaction in the United States and Great Place to Work in the United Kingdom and Mexico.

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