Job Description

Optomi, in partnership with our client, are seeking an experienced SRE II to join their team for a 6 month contract to hire opportunity that is 2 days hybrid onsite in Irving, TX.

W2 only - no C2C/sponsorship at this time.

We are seeking a highly skilled Site Reliability Engineer II to join our engineering organization. This role focuses on building resilient, scalable, and automated systemsnot traditional production support. The ideal candidate has hands-on engineering experience across cloud infrastructure, observability, automation, and reliability-focused development.

You will work closely with development, cloud engineering, and platform teams to ensure high availability, optimal performance, and operational excellence of critical customer-facing applications.

Key Responsibilities

• Contribute directly to the reliability, scalability, performance, and security of critical applications.
• Build reusable services, automation, and frameworks that improve platform stability and developer velocity.

Cloud & Platform Engineering

Design and enhance cloud infrastructure using Azure services including:

• Azure Service Bus
• Event Hub
• Azure SQL
• AKS (Azure Kubernetes Service)
• Function Apps
• App Services
• Implement and manage Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform.

Containerization & Orchestration

• Build and deploy containerized applications using Docker (23+ years).
• Support Kubernetes workloads via AKS, including scaling, upgrades, and cluster reliability improvements.

Development & DevOps

• Collaborate with development teams using a working knowledge of .NET.
• Improve CI/CD workflows using Azure DevOps (ADO).

Monitoring, Observability & Incident Response

• Implement and optimize monitoring and alerting strategies.
• Use Splunk Observability Cloud (preferred) or equivalent observability platforms to enhance visibility and reduce MTTR.
• Drive proactive incident identification, root-cause analysis, and long-term fixes.

Performance, Reliability & Scalability Enhancements

• Design and implement SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets.
• Develop auto-scaling policies, failover strategies, and disaster recovery procedures.
• Optimize application and database performance to ensure reliability across high-traffic, mission-critical systems.

Required Qualifications

• 35+ years of hands-on SRE experience
• Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field (or equivalent experience)
• Masters degree preferred

Hands-on experience with:

• Azure Cloud (AKS, Service Bus, Event Hub, SQL, Function Apps, App Services)
• Terraform
• Docker
• Azure DevOps
• Monitoring tools (Splunk Observability Cloud preferred)
• .NET ecosystem (understanding of development fundamentals)

Preferred Skills

• Experience designing resilient, distributed systems
• Strong troubleshooting and analytical skills
• Performance tuning across applications, databases, and cloud services
• Experience improving uptime, latency, throughput, or cost efficiency of production applications
• Familiarity with SRE principles and modern operational practices

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