What are the responsibilities and job description for the Site Reliability Engineer position at Peerless Technologies?
The Senior Sight Reliability Engineer role owns the reliability of systems they don't write. They bring the experience to spend most of their time preventing fires rather than fighting them. They remain in the on-call rotation and are effective incident responders, but their primary contribution is the foundational work that raises the reliability floor for everyone. Working primarily with: Kubernetes infrastructure, GitOps patterns, progressive delivery, rollback automation, capacity planning, and disaster recovery (DR) strategy. Our Senior SREs are less focused on keeping platforms running and more focused on resilience and reliability outcomes - building the internal capability that lets SREs and dev teams ship with confidence. Their success is measured by the same standard, at a higher bar: most of their time is in planned, high-leverage work. Looking for someone who can be in person in Dayton Ohio, Huntsville AL, or St. Louis MO.
Required Qualifications
- 3-7 years of experience in Operations, Sys Admin, DevOps, or Software engineering
- Bachelors Degree in CS, Computer Engineering, or related technical field
- US Citizenship & Must have or be able to obtain a Top Secret Clearence
- Systems thinking understanding how systems fail together, blast radius, and more
- Observability Fundamentals not just the 3 signals, but knowing why and how to use telemetry to optimize services and engineering quality of life§ Software engineering building automation & non-trivial APIs, git workflows, leading code reviews Linux/networking fundamentals
- Strong Communication, Collaboration, and Organizational Skills
- Specialty Skills: (2 or more)
- Platform & Infrastructure - Kubernetes, ArgoCD/GitOps, DR, capacity planning
- Observability - OTel standards, Grafana/Perses, Tempo, Clickhouse, VictoriaMetrics
- Automation & Toil Reduction - scripting, CI/CD, runbook automation, DevOps
- Developer Enablement - instrumentation SDKs, SRE practice onboarding
- Data & Alerting - dashboard quality, alert design, anomaly detection
Desired Qualifications
- SRE Certifications from The DevOps Institute, AWS Solution Architect, or similar
- Hands-on experience with: Python, Go, Kubernetes, Argo CD, GitLab/GitHub, Jenkins, Docker, Locust/Gatling, Prometheus, Grafana/Perses