Site Reliability Engineer II

Cority

110d•Remote

About The Position

As an Intermediate Site Reliability Engineer, you will support the reliability, performance, and scalability of cloud-hosted services and database platforms. You will work with senior team members to implement SRE best practices, improve automation, enhance monitoring, and contribute to incident response processes. You will also apply foundational DBA skills to ensure availability, recoverability, and performance of key data services.

Requirements

4–6 years in SRE, Cloud Operations, DevOps, or related roles.
Foundational experience with SQL Server or PostgreSQL in production environments.
Basic understanding of cloud DB platforms such as Amazon RDS or Azure SQL Database.
Experience with scripting languages such as PowerShell, Bash, or Python.
Familiarity with monitoring tools and alerting solutions.
Understanding of CI/CD concepts and exposure to tools like Gitlab, Jenkins or Octopus Deploy.
Strong troubleshooting and communication skills.
Exposure to Container Orchestration via ECS Fargate or Kubernetes, and containerized Windows and Linux workloads.
Familiarity with Flyway, Liquibase, or other database migration tools.

Nice To Haves

Experience with Redis or other caching layers.
Familiarity with Database Performance tooling, like Solarwinds DPA

Responsibilities

Support cloud operations across Production, Customer Sales and Professional Services environments, focusing on reliability and performance.
Assist in defining and tracking SLIs/SLOs and participate in incident response activities.
Contribute to creation and maintenance of monitoring dashboards and alerts.
Support managed and self-hosted databases including SQL Server, PostgreSQL, and Oracle.
Perform routine DBA tasks including backups, restores, integrity checks, and performance troubleshooting.
Contribute to automation for provisioning, patching, and deployments using IaC and scripting.
Collaborate with engineering teams on schema enhancements and query analysis.
Participate in CI/CD workflows and integrate database changes into pipelines.
Maintain clear documentation including runbooks and operational procedures.