Application Engineer (SRE)

Blueoriginitstaffing LLC - Chicago, IL

Full-time

Chicago, IL

About the position

The Application Engineer (SRE) role focuses on enhancing the reliability and performance of services within an Agile environment. The engineer will work on various aspects such as availability, latency, performance, efficiency, and capacity planning, while also addressing change and problem management. This position requires a proactive approach to identifying and resolving inefficiencies in application performance.

Responsibilities

• Work with the engineering team to analyze, design, code, test, and deploy new user stories and product features with high quality to production.
• Oversee application quality, test automation, and guide the team to achieve key quality results.
• Develop and maintain automation test suite/framework, including performance testing and automated generation of test data.
• Conduct root cause analysis and troubleshooting activities to drive proactive resolutions.
• Help grow NFT Quality Test Strategy standards within the system/application and ensure compatibility with the platform architecture.
• Achieve team commitments and influence others through informal leadership and strong communication skills.

Requirements

• Professional experience as a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE).
• Hands-on software development experience with a strong understanding of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
• Ability to translate functional and non-functional requirements into appropriate NFT Automation tests.
• Experience with DevOps and CI/CD tools.
• Good experience with Linux, AWS Cloud, and on-premises deployments.
• Experience in Systems Observability and APM tools, preferably Datadog.
• Strong technical skills in application integration, high-availability, resilience, and observability.