What are the responsibilities and job description for the Site Reliability Engineer position at Saxon Global?
Title: Site Reliability Engineer
Location: Arlington, TX || Hybrid || Local only
Duration: Contract-to-Hire || W2
Job Summary
- We are looking for a strong Site Reliability Engineer with excellent hands-on experience in software development, Release Engineering, DevOps, SRE practices, and Azure Cloud. This role supports a major technology modernization project focused on improving reliability, automation, performance, and cloud migration.
- You will work closely with development, architecture, and operations teams to build highly reliable, scalable, and automated systems. The work involves improving CI/CD pipelines, building monitoring/observability systems, implementing SLO/SLI standards, and driving automation across global platforms.
Key Responsibilities
- Work with Architecture and Development teams to ensure applications are reliable, stable, and scalable
- Define and manage SLOs (Service Level Objectives) and SLIs (Service Level Indicators)
- Troubleshoot production issues and lead problem-resolution activities
- Perform root cause analysis and create long-term fix plans
- Build automation for deployments, monitoring, testing, and scaling
- Improve uptime by reducing manual interventions
- Help implement engineering standards and mentor teams in SRE best practices
Required Skills
Programming / Scripting
- Java, C# (.NET MVC / .NET Core), or Go
- PowerShell / Bash
SRE & DevOps
- Strong hands-on SRE experience (not just theoretical)
- Ability to implement deployment strategies like blue-green and canary
- Experience with reliability patterns and microservices architecture
CI/CD & Automation
- Azure DevOps (YAML / ARM Templates)
- Terraform
- Jenkins / Octopus Deploy / Chef
- Automated testing and automated security integration
Cloud & Containers
- Azure Cloud experience
- AKS (Azure Kubernetes Service), Kubernetes, Docker
- Azure Monitoring, Service Bus, serverless components
Database
- SQL Server, Oracle, NoSQL (CosmosDB)
- Schema design, indexing, and performance tuning
Quality & Security Tools
- SonarQube, Checkmarx
- CI/CD code scan setup and triage