Site Reliability Engineer

NOV•Houston, TX

17h

About The Position

As a Site Reliability Engineer, you will be responsible for operational excellence and incident management, maintaining and monitoring production systems for availability, latency, and performance. You will lead incident response efforts, including communication, resolution, and postmortem documentation. You will also design and implement health checks, alerting systems, and automated remediation workflows, and drive root cause analysis and implement permanent resolutions for recurring issues. Additionally, you will 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, and conduct post-incident reviews and use insights to inform future engineering investments. You will 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, and optimize PostgreSQL performance, queries, and maintenance strategies. Finally, you will 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, and standardize infrastructure as code practices across environments.

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.