Site Reliability Engineer (6+ years) to improve production reliability and automate SRE processes
- Temporary
Our financial services client is seeking an Site Reliability Engineer (6+ years) to improve production reliability and automate SRE processes using Python, GitHub Actions, and observability tooling
Join a technology team supporting Capital Markets and Total Fund Investment Analytics applications and platforms. This individual contributor role is focused on addressing a backlog of SRE and automation initiatives, including scripting, observability improvements, disaster recovery readiness, and platform modernization. You will work closely with development and platform teams to improve the reliability, resilience, and operational sustainability of production applications and services.
9-month Contract, Toronto, Working Hours: EST
Must Haves
- 6+ years in Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), Production Engineering, Platform Engineering, DevOps, or Application Reliability
- Strong hands-on development and scripting experience with Python
- Hands-on experience with GitHub Actions and automation tooling
- Experience building and implementing automation solutions within production environments
- Experience with observability / monitoring tooling, production reliability, and troubleshooting
- Experience with CI/CD, Git, source control, and DevOps practices
- Strong understanding of production applications, platforms, APIs, and distributed systems
Nice to Have
- PowerShell scripting experience
- Experience with Disaster Recovery (DR), resilience testing, and production readiness
- Experience with infrastructure-as-code and platform modernization initiatives
- Experience supporting message queues, APIs, and distributed service architectures
- Experience with JIRA and Confluence
- Experience with ITIL / IT service management practices
- Capital Markets / Investment Analytics experience
- Experience using AI-assisted engineering tools for troubleshooting, log analysis, scripting, and incident diagnosis
Responsibilities
- Build and implement automation and scripting solutions to improve application and platform reliability
- Improve monitoring and observability capabilities across applications, data pipelines, platforms, and services
- Support platform modernization and operational efficiency initiatives
- Improve application availability, performance, resilience, and operational sustainability
- Develop and maintain reliability and application health plans to reduce operational risk
- Support Disaster Recovery planning, preparedness, and recovery testing
- Conduct production readiness reviews and identify reliability and supportability gaps before releases
- Improve MTTD and MTTR through monitoring, diagnostics, automation, and operational tooling
- Perform root cause analysis and implement corrective and preventative improvements following production incidents
- Partner with development, architecture, security, data, and platform teams to identify and address reliability risks
- Apply CI/CD, source control, testing, release, rollback, and production-validation practices to SRE changes