What are the responsibilities and job description for the Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) position at Apex Systems?
Job#: 3031493
Job Description:
Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)
Location: Plano, Texas (Onsite)
Employment Type: Contract
Contract Duration: 12 Months
Role Overview
We are seeking a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to operate hands-on across the stack to improve platform and application observability, drive reliability improvements, and deliver measurable gains in operational efficiency. This role will work closely with core teams to execute platform modernization, harden production systems, and evolve support tooling. This position is critical to maintaining execution velocity, reducing operational risk, and ensuring reliability and performance objectives are met.
Key Responsibilities
Experience: A minimum of 5 years of combined experience in SRE, software development, or infrastructure engineering.
Technical Skills:
Professional Skills:
The pay rate for this position is $73.68 per hour. Contract employees are eligible for benefits, including medical, dental, and vision insurance options.
This employer is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate or allow discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or related medical conditions), age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, genetic information, registered domestic partner status, marital status, disability, status as a crime victim, protected veteran status, political affiliation, union membership, or any other characteristic protected by law. We will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable law.
Apex uses a virtual recruiter as part of the application process. Click for more details.
If you have visited our website in search of information on employment opportunities or to apply for a position, and you require an accommodation in using our website for a search or application, please contact our Benefits Department at or .
Apex Systems is a world-class IT services company that serves thousands of clients across the globe. When you join Apex, you become part of a team that values innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning. We offer quality career resources, training, certifications, development opportunities, and a comprehensive benefits package. Our commitment to excellence is reflected in many awards, including ClearlyRated's Best of Staffing in Talent Satisfaction in the United States and Great Place to Work in the United Kingdom and Mexico. Apex uses a virtual recruiter as part of the application process. Click for more details.
Apex Benefits Overview: Apex offers a range of supplemental benefits, including medical, dental, vision, life, disability, and other insurance plans that offer an optional layer of financial protection. We offer an ESPP (employee stock purchase program) and a 401K program which allows you to contribute typically within 30 days of starting, with a company match after 12 months of tenure. Apex also offers a HSA (Health Savings Account on the HDHP plan), a SupportLinc Employee Assistance Program (EAP) with up to 8 free counseling sessions, a corporate discount savings program and other discounts. In terms of professional development, Apex hosts an on-demand training program, provides access to certification prep and a library of technical and leadership courses/books/seminars once you have 6 months of tenure, and certification discounts and other perks to associations that include CompTIA and IIBA. Apex has a dedicated customer service team for our Consultants that can address questions around benefits and other resources, as well as a certified Career Coach. You can access a full list of our benefits, programs, support teams and resources within our 'Welcome Packet' as well, which an Apex team member can provide.
Job Description:
Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)
Location: Plano, Texas (Onsite)
Employment Type: Contract
Contract Duration: 12 Months
Role Overview
We are seeking a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to operate hands-on across the stack to improve platform and application observability, drive reliability improvements, and deliver measurable gains in operational efficiency. This role will work closely with core teams to execute platform modernization, harden production systems, and evolve support tooling. This position is critical to maintaining execution velocity, reducing operational risk, and ensuring reliability and performance objectives are met.
Key Responsibilities
- Collaborate with engineers and architects to design, develop, test, and implement secure, robust, and scalable solutions for applications and platforms.
- Design and implement deployment approaches using automated continuous integration and continuous delivery pipelines.
- Take responsibility for all aspects of reliability, collaborating with technical experts to resolve complex problems.
- Utilize SRE practices, service level indicators, and service level objectives to proactively resolve issues.
- Gather, analyze, and develop visualizations from large, diverse data sets to support continuous platform improvement.
- Identify opportunities to eliminate toil and automate the triage of issues to improve operational stability.
- Collaborate with a global team to identify, analyze, and resolve platform vulnerabilities.
- Promote the adoption of site reliability engineering best practices within the team and organization.
Experience: A minimum of 5 years of combined experience in SRE, software development, or infrastructure engineering.
Technical Skills:
- Experience in implementing, monitoring, and maintaining highly scalable and resilient application services and platforms.
- Experience with monitoring tools such as OpenTelemetry (OTel), ELK (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana), Splunk, and Dynatrace.
- Knowledge of Python, Shell, or Perl scripting.
- Proficiency in implementing CI/CD pipelines with tools such as Git and Jenkins.
- Advanced knowledge of networking, including firewalls, DNS, Load Balancing, and Proxies.
- Advanced understanding of the Linux operating system, including shell scripting and core commands for automation.
- Experience with Ansible for writing playbooks and using core modules.
Professional Skills:
- Excellent interpersonal, organizational, and communication skills are required.
- Must be self-motivated and results-oriented with analytical and problem-solving skills.
- UI/UX experience to provide oversight on best practices for tooling.
- Hands-on experience with Terraform for Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
- Background in a large enterprise environment.
- Ability to analyze and resolve complex infrastructure issues.
- Capacity to work in a fast-paced environment and meet deadlines.
The pay rate for this position is $73.68 per hour. Contract employees are eligible for benefits, including medical, dental, and vision insurance options.
This employer is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate or allow discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or related medical conditions), age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, genetic information, registered domestic partner status, marital status, disability, status as a crime victim, protected veteran status, political affiliation, union membership, or any other characteristic protected by law. We will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable law.
Apex uses a virtual recruiter as part of the application process. Click for more details.
If you have visited our website in search of information on employment opportunities or to apply for a position, and you require an accommodation in using our website for a search or application, please contact our Benefits Department at or .
Apex Systems is a world-class IT services company that serves thousands of clients across the globe. When you join Apex, you become part of a team that values innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning. We offer quality career resources, training, certifications, development opportunities, and a comprehensive benefits package. Our commitment to excellence is reflected in many awards, including ClearlyRated's Best of Staffing in Talent Satisfaction in the United States and Great Place to Work in the United Kingdom and Mexico. Apex uses a virtual recruiter as part of the application process. Click for more details.
Apex Benefits Overview: Apex offers a range of supplemental benefits, including medical, dental, vision, life, disability, and other insurance plans that offer an optional layer of financial protection. We offer an ESPP (employee stock purchase program) and a 401K program which allows you to contribute typically within 30 days of starting, with a company match after 12 months of tenure. Apex also offers a HSA (Health Savings Account on the HDHP plan), a SupportLinc Employee Assistance Program (EAP) with up to 8 free counseling sessions, a corporate discount savings program and other discounts. In terms of professional development, Apex hosts an on-demand training program, provides access to certification prep and a library of technical and leadership courses/books/seminars once you have 6 months of tenure, and certification discounts and other perks to associations that include CompTIA and IIBA. Apex has a dedicated customer service team for our Consultants that can address questions around benefits and other resources, as well as a certified Career Coach. You can access a full list of our benefits, programs, support teams and resources within our 'Welcome Packet' as well, which an Apex team member can provide.
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