What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Site Reliability Engineer position at Storm2?
Senior Site Reliability Engineer
Locations: Scottsdale, AZ | Chicago, IL | New York, NY
Type: Full-time | Hybrid
Salary - 140,000 -165,000 10% bonus
About Our Client
Our client is a rapidly growing technology company at the forefront of digital infrastructure innovation. They partner with leading organizations to deliver secure, scalable, and high-performance platforms that support millions of users nationwide. Their mission is to build and safeguard the technology backbone that powers the modern economy.
The Opportunity
As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE), you’ll play a key role in building and maintaining resilient systems that scale to meet future demand. You’ll work with cross-functional teams to design, automate, and optimize complex distributed systems, ensuring customers experience fast, reliable, and secure services at all times.
What You’ll Do
- Drive reliability, automation, and scalability across mission-critical applications.
- Build tooling and frameworks for deployment automation, configuration management, and disaster recovery.
- Implement observability solutions (monitoring, alerting, tracing, and logging) to proactively identify and address issues.
- Partner with engineering teams to influence software design, microservice best practices, and CI/CD workflows.
- Diagnose and resolve performance bottlenecks in large-scale distributed systems.
- Provide runbooks, documentation, and technical guidance to operational support teams.
- Participate in a 24/7 on-call rotation and drive improvements that reduce incident frequency and impact.
- Establish repeatable patterns and standards that improve service delivery and operational efficiency.
What We’re Looking For
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience).
- 3 years in a site reliability, DevOps, or systems engineering role within a mid-to-large-scale enterprise.
- Strong Linux systems administration background.
- Solid knowledge of scripting (Python, Bash, Ruby, or similar).
- Hands-on experience with observability tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Datadog, New Relic).
- Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, Git, and modern software delivery practices.
- Knowledge of networking protocols (TCP/UDP/IP) and security/encryption standards.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work across engineering and product teams.
Preferred Qualifications
- Proficiency in programming (Java, Go, Python, Ruby, or JavaScript).
- Experience supporting production applications in a 24/7 customer-facing environment.
- Strong background with containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes, Swarm).
- Hands-on experience with AWS or other cloud platforms.
Why Join
- Competitive healthcare, dental, and vision coverage
- 401(k) with company match
- Generous PTO and paid holidays, plus volunteer days
- 12 weeks paid parental leave
Salary : $140,000 - $165,000
