Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) - Hybrid

Job Title: Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) - Hybrid

Duration (Contract): 6 Months

Client Location: Austin, TX

Location Preference: Hybrid

Job Description:
As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) , you will lead reliability, observability, automation, and operational excellence initiatives for enterprise-scale applications and platforms. This role combines software engineering, infrastructure operations, and AI/ML-driven observability to enhance system reliability, reduce operational toil, and drive automation across mission-critical environments.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design and implement automation solutions that improve operational efficiency and platform reliability.

• Lead AI/ML-driven observability, anomaly detection, predictive alerting, and AIOps initiatives.

• Develop scripts, tools, and frameworks to automate infrastructure and operational processes.

• Expand automation coverage across deployment, monitoring, alerting, and self-healing workflows.

• Collaborate with engineering, operations, and product teams to improve system availability and performance.

• Troubleshoot critical production issues and drive root cause analysis and remediation efforts.

• Build and maintain monitoring dashboards, alerting frameworks, and operational intelligence solutions.

• Support CI/CD, GitOps, and deployment automation strategies to accelerate software delivery.

• Conduct capacity planning, performance analysis, and operational readiness assessments.

• Participate in on-call support and ensure reliable operation of mission-critical systems.

Required Skills, Experiences, Education, and Competencies:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field.

• 6-8 years of experience supporting and administering enterprise-scale production environments.

• 6-8 years of experience developing automation scripts, monitoring solutions, dashboards, and alerting frameworks.

• Strong experience with Linux and Windows system administration, troubleshooting, tuning, and deployments.

• Proficiency in one or more programming languages including Python, PowerShell, Java, .NET, or Bash.

• Experience with cloud platforms, application deployments, migrations, and high-availability architectures.

• Knowledge of networking concepts including DNS, DHCP, firewalls, routing, and distributed systems.

• Experience with observability tools such as Splunk, AppDynamics, or similar monitoring platforms.

• Strong understanding of databases and messaging technologies including SQL, Oracle, MongoDB, Kafka, RabbitMQ, Solace, or IBM MQ.

• Proven experience applying AI/ML, AIOps, predictive alerting, or ML-driven observability solutions in production environments.

The hourly range for roles of this nature are $60.00 to $80.00/hr. Rates are heavily dependent on skills, experience, location, and industry.

cyberThink is an Equal Opportunity Employer.