Senior Site Reliability Engineer NEX
Patterson-UTI | |
United States, Texas, Houston | |
10713 West Sam Houston Parkway North (Show on map) | |
Aug 14, 2026 | |
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Reliability Engineering * Design, implement, and operate scalable, resilient, and highly available systems on Google Cloud Platform. * Improve service availability, latency, performance, scalability, and operational resilience. * Define, implement, and track service-level indicators, service-level objectives, and error budgets. * Perform capacity planning, performance analysis, and workload forecasting. * Design and validate disaster recovery, backup, failover, and service-restoration capabilities. * Implement and maintain secure cloud networking, IAM, workload identities, service accounts, and access-control practices. * Partner with cybersecurity and identity teams to ensure infrastructure and services follow organizational security standards. * Monitor cloud consumption and optimize resource utilization, performance, and cost efficiency. * Identify operational risks and recommend improvements to cloud architecture and service design. Automation and Platform Engineering * Build and maintain cloud infrastructure using Terraform or comparable infrastructure-as-code tools. * Automate repetitive operational activities and systematically identify, measure, and reduce manual toil. * Build reusable infrastructure modules, deployment patterns, and operational tooling. * Improve CI/CD pipelines to enable secure, repeatable, and reliable software delivery. Observability and Incident Management * Develop actionable alerts that identify meaningful service degradation while reducing alert fatigue and unnecessary operational noise. * Create and maintain dashboards, runbooks, operational procedures, and troubleshooting documentation. * Participate in a sustainable on-call rotation supporting production systems. * Respond to production incidents, coordinate service restoration, and lead incident response when appropriate. * Facilitate blameless postmortems and identify corrective and preventive actions. * Use incident and operational data to improve system design, automation, monitoring, and response processes. Collaboration and Service Ownership * Partner with software engineering, data engineering, security, and product teams to improve application reliability and production operations. * Promote shared responsibility for production reliability between application development and platform teams. * Establish and document reliability standards, operational practices, and reusable engineering patterns. * Provide technical guidance and coaching on SRE, cloud, Kubernetes, observability, and incident-management practices. Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities * Three or more years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, platform engineering, DevOps, cloud engineering, production software engineering, or a similar role. * Experience operating highly available systems in a 24/7 production environment. * Hands-on experience operating workloads on Google Cloud Platform or another major public cloud platform. * Strong experience managing compute, networking and data GCP services workloads * Strong experience with containerization and orchestration technologies, including Docker and Kubernetes. * Experience building and managing infrastructure with Terraform or a comparable infrastructure-as-code tool. * Proficiency in Python, Go, Java, or another comparable programming language. * Experience implementing or operating CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions,Azure DevOps, Bitbucket Pipelines, or comparable tools. * Experience implementing observability using metrics, logs, traces, dashboards, and alerts. * Experience participating in on-call rotations, responding to incidents, and contributing to postmortems. * Understanding of SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, and other SRE principles. * Ability to troubleshoot complex issues across application, infrastructure, network, data, and cloud-service layers. * Ability to communicate effectively with engineering teams, business stakeholders, and operational personnel. Minimum Qualifications * Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience. * 3+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, platform engineering, cloud engineering, or DevOps. * 3+ years of experience operating production workloads in GCP. * Ability to understand and communicate in English at a level sufficient to issue, receive, and respond to safety-related and operations-related instructions. Preferred Qualifications * Google Cloud and/or Kubernetes certifications. * Experience supporting data-intensive, streaming, analytics, or event-driven platforms. * Experience establishing production-readiness, incident-management, or reliability-review processes. * Experience working in the energy, oil and gas, industrial, IoT, field operations, or other operationally critical industries. * Experience supporting technology environments that integrate cloud platforms with remote sites, field equipment, industrial systems, or edge computing. | |
Aug 14, 2026