Site Reliability Engineer Lead

Patterson-UTI • Houston, TX

6h

About The Position

We are seeking an Site Reliability Engineer Lead to own and evolve the reliability, scalability, and operational excellence of cloud-native data platforms running primarily on Google Cloud Platform (GCP). This role supports data systems that ingest, process, and serve large volumes of operational data from oilfield and energy environments. The ideal candidate is a cloud-first SRE with deep GCP experience, strong Python engineering skills, and a track record of leading reliability initiatives for data-intensive systems.
Lead SRE practices for GCP-based data platforms
Design and own SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, and reliability metrics
Build and maintain cloud-native observability (monitoring, logging, alerting)
Lead incident response for production cloud systems and drive postmortems
Partner with data engineering and platform teams to design reliable architectures
Automate operational workflows using Python
Drive improvements in CI/CD, infrastructure as code, and deployment safety
Mentor engineers and set SRE best practices across the team

Requirements

• 7+ years in SRE, Cloud Platform Engineering, or DevOps
• Strong hands-on experience with Google Cloud Platform, including:
• GCP: GKE, Compute Engine, Cloud Storage, Pub/Sub (or equivalents)
• Cloud Monitoring & Logging
• BigQuery
• Dataflow
• Datastream
• IAM and networking
• Composer/AIrflow
• Kubernetes: deployment, scaling, reliability patterns
• CI/CD: GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or similar
• Observability: GCP Cloud Monitoring, Logging
• Experience supporting cloud-native data systems (batch and streaming)
• Production experience with Python for automation, tooling, or services
• Infrastructure as Code experience (Terraform strongly preferred)
• Experience operating systems in 24/7 production environments
• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Information Technology, Computer Science, or a related field.
• 5+ years experience in Site Reliability Engineering, Cloud Platform Engineering, or DevOps
• 3+ years operating production workloads on Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
• Prior technical leadership experience (lead engineer, tech lead, or ownership of reliability initiatives)
• Ability to understand and speak English at a level of proficiency allowing employee to issue, receive and respond to both safety and operations-related directions in English

Nice To Haves

• Oil and Gas Industry knowledge
• Technology/Digital Industry knowledge

Responsibilities

• Lead SRE practices for GCP-based data platforms
• Design and own SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, and reliability metrics
• Build and maintain cloud-native observability (monitoring, logging, alerting)
• Lead incident response for production cloud systems and drive postmortems
• Partner with data engineering and platform teams to design reliable architectures
• Automate operational workflows using Python
• Drive improvements in CI/CD, infrastructure as code, and deployment safety
• Mentor engineers and set SRE best practices across the team

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees