Site Reliability Engineer Technical Lead

Bright Vision Technologies • Overland Park, KS

7d • $100,000 - $150,000 • Onsite

About The Position

The Site Reliability Engineer Technical Lead is a hands-on, expert-level role focused on the operational excellence of critical production systems. The position emphasizes creating innovative solutions to improve mission-critical services rather than managing project timelines and resources. The technical lead drives automation, optimizes performance, and leads incident response from a technical standpoint. The role includes applying SRE principles to enterprise systems, building and maintaining internal tools, and using system metrics to support performance tuning and capacity planning.

Requirements

• At least 8 years of experience in IT, with significant experience in a senior-level SRE or similar role.
• Comprehensive knowledge and hands-on experience applying SRE principles to enterprise-level systems for reliability and scalability.
• Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, or Azure; microservices; and containers such as Kubernetes.
• Ability to write and implement code, such as Python, and use automation tools to eliminate manual toil and create scalable, self-healing systems.
• Expertise implementing monitoring, alerting, logging, and tracing systems, such as Dynatrace, Splunk, or ELK Stack.
• Ability to analyze system metrics to proactively identify issues and make data-backed decisions for performance tuning and capacity planning.

Nice To Haves

• Exceptional leadership, communication, and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to influence and collaborate effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders, including senior leadership.

Responsibilities

• Ensure the operational excellence of critical production systems.
• Create innovative solutions to improve mission-critical services.
• Drive automation to eliminate manual toil and support scalable, self-healing systems.
• Optimize system performance and use data to guide technical decisions and capacity planning.
• Lead incident response from a technical standpoint.
• Build and maintain internal tools that enhance infrastructure and operations.
• Implement monitoring, alerting, logging, and tracing systems.
• Collaborate with technical and non-technical stakeholders, including senior leadership.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed