Site Reliability Engineer

NOV Inc.•Houston, TX

About The Position

As a Site Reliability Engineer, you will be responsible for Operational Excellence & Incident Management, Observability & Insights, Performance & Systems Optimization, and CI/CD & Automation. Every day, the oil and gas industry’s best minds put more than 150 years of experience to work to help our customers achieve lasting success. We Power the Industry that Powers the World. Throughout every region in the world and across every area of drilling and production, our family of companies has provided the technical expertise, advanced equipment, and operational support necessary for success—now and in the future. We are a global family of thousands of individuals, working as one team to create a lasting impact for ourselves, our customers, and the communities where we live and work. Through purposeful business innovation, product creation, and service delivery, we are driven to power the industry that powers the world better. This drives us to anticipate our customers’ needs and work with them to deliver the finest products and services on time and on budget. Our family of companies is supported by our global Corporate teams, providing expert knowledge from functions including Human Resources, Information Technology, Compliance, Finance, QHSE, Marketing and Legal centers of expertise. We are structured to provide guidance and service above all to all our business operations.

Requirements

5+ years of experience in SRE, DevOps, or Infrastructure Engineering roles.
Expertise in Kubernetes and container orchestration at scale.
Strong experience with AKKA.NET or similar actor-based frameworks.
Proficiency with scripting and automation (Bash, PowerShell, Python).
Experience with observability tools (Phobos,Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, ELK).
Hands-on experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
Strong PostgreSQL knowledge—performance tuning, query optimization, maintenance.
Proven ability to lead incident management and drive postmortem processes.
A builder’s mindset with high standards for operational excellence and technical ownership.

Nice To Haves

CI/CD: GitHub Actions, Azure Pipelines, GitLab CI
Infrastructure: Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform
Monitoring: Phobos (AKKA.NET), Datadog, Prometheus
Source Control: GitHub, GitLab, Azure DevOps
Programming: C#, Python, Bash, PowerShell

Responsibilities

Maintain and monitor production systems for availability, latency, and performance.
Lead incident response efforts, including communication, resolution, and postmortem documentation.
Design and implement health checks, alerting systems, and automated remediation workflows.
Drive root cause analysis and implement permanent resolutions for recurring issues.
Set up and maintain full observability stacks (logging, metrics, tracing) using tools like Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, OpenTelemetry, or ELK.
Analyze telemetry and logs to identify trends, anomalies, and opportunities for improvement.
Conduct post-incident reviews and use insights to inform future engineering investments.
Tune and optimize distributed systems, including AKKA.NET actors, for performance and resource efficiency.
Work with developers to evolve architecture and improve system throughput, latency, and stability.
Optimize PostgreSQL performance, queries, and maintenance strategies.
Design and maintain modern CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, Azure Pipelines, or GitLab CI.
Automate deployment, testing, and rollback processes to reduce friction and increase deployment frequency.
Standardize infrastructure as code practices across environments.