Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Optomi, in partnership with a leading global financial services organization, is seeking an experienced Senior Site Reliability Engineers (SRE) to join a newly formed Application Reliability team. These are contract to hire positions with a strong preference for candidates in the Dallas/Fort Worth or Plano, TX area (hybrid schedule). What the Right Professional Will Enjoy: Playing a foundational role in building a greenfield SRE practice focused on mission-critical financial applications Working in a highly collaborative environment alongside development, product, and infrastructure teams to drive measurable reliability improvements Opportunity to design and implement cutting-edge observability, automation, and self-healing capabilities at scale Mentoring engineers and influencing modern reliability practices across the enterprise Apply today if your background includes: 5+ years in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, Platform Engineering, or equivalent production engineering roles Hands‑on experience designing, building, and maintaining large‑scale, highly available systems in AWS (EKS, ECS, or similar) Proven expertise with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) and modern CI/CD platforms (GitHub Actions, Harness, ArgoCD, or equivalent) Strong programming and automation skills with Python (or similar) for operational tooling and runbooks Deep experience with container orchestration (Kubernetes/EKS highly preferred) and cloud‑native ecosystems Track record of implementing observability solutions (Dynatrace, CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, etc.) that drive actionable insights Solid understanding of SLOs, error budgets, SLAs, and blameless post‑incident processes Demonstrated ability to lead major incident response, root cause analysis, and preventive remediation efforts Experience embedding reliability practices into application architecture and development lifecycles Preferred Qualifications: Familiarity with GitOps workflows, secrets management (HashiCorp Vault, AWS Secrets Manager), and advanced monitoring/alerting best practices History of building self‑healing and automated remediation systems #J-18808-Ljbffr Optomi