SRE Engineer

Motion Recruitment - Fort Worth, TX

Full-time - Mid Level

Fort Worth, TX

251-500 employees

Administrative and Support Services

About the position

The SRE Engineer position at a Fortune 500 transportation company in Fort Worth, TX, involves leveraging cutting-edge technology to solve business problems in a collaborative environment. The role focuses on participating in all phases of the development process, advocating for agile methodologies and test-driven development, and improving the codebase. This is a contract opportunity lasting 2 months, with potential extensions through 2025.

Responsibilities

• Assist SRE teams in defining and achieving goals by organizing and facilitating ceremonies such as daily stand-ups, sprint planning, sprint reviews, and retrospectives.
• Align SRE activities with Agile methodologies, focusing on incident management, problem resolution, and reliability improvement.
• Identify and remove impediments or blockers that may hinder the team's progress.
• Track and analyze key performance indicators (KPIs) related to reliability, system performance, and team productivity, reporting these metrics to stakeholders and leadership.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives across SRE processes, leveraging feedback from retrospectives and performance data.
• Work closely with SRE engineers, product owners, and stakeholders to align the team's work with organizational goals.
• Advocate for SRE best practices such as monitoring, alerting, automation, and system health reviews to ensure system stability and availability.
• Coordinate and facilitate post-incident reviews, ensuring teams identify and implement action items to prevent future occurrences.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• 3+ years of experience as a developer in a technology organization.
• 2+ years of experience working with Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), DevOps, or Infrastructure teams.
• Familiarity with SRE practices such as incident management, SLOs/SLIs, and automation.
• Experience with tools such as Dynatrace, Thousand Eyes, ServiceNow and similar tools.
• Experience with Python and Java.
• Excellent communication, leadership, and facilitation skills.
• Understanding of cloud platforms (AWS, Google Cloud Platform, Azure), CI/CD pipelines, and observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack).
• Ability to effectively communicate both verbally and written with all levels within the organization.
• Ability to explain technical concepts and adjust messaging based on the audience, including non-technical groups.
• Ability to influence through outstanding interpersonal skills, collaboration, and negotiation skills.
• Ability to work well within a team environment, as well as independently.

Nice-to-haves

• Previous experience working directly with SRE teams or DevOps.
• Understanding of infrastructure-as-code tools like Terraform or CloudFormation.
• Knowledge of containerization and orchestration technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes.