Site Reliability Engineer / DevOps Engineer
DEXIAN
Full-time | Contract
Jersey City, NJ
Job description
Role : Site Reliability Engineer
Location: 5 days on site – Jersey City, New Jersey
Duration: 12 Months (Possibility of extension)
Responsibilities
- Define, implement, and operationalize Service Level Indicators (SLIs) and Service Level Objectives (SLOs) for critical platforms and data products
- Design and build custom monitoring and alerting solutions to track reliability, latency, availability, and data freshness
- Implement advanced observability using Grafana and Dynatrace, including dashboards, alerts, and anomaly detection
- Operate and optimize systems running in AWS, with a focus on scalability, resiliency, and automation
- Partner with development teams to embed reliability best practices into CI/CD pipelines and system design
- Lead incident response, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement initiatives
- Drive reliability culture through documentation, runbooks, and engineering standards
- Mentor junior engineers and contribute to SRE best practices.
Required Qualifications
- 6+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, or Platform Engineering roles
- Strong hands-on experience with:
- Grafana (dashboards, alerting, visualization)
- Dynatrace (APM, infrastructure monitoring, real user monitoring)
- AWS (EC2, EKS, Lambda, S3, CloudWatch, etc.)
- Proven experience implementing SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets
- Experience building custom monitoring solutions (metrics, logs, traces, synthetic checks, data freshness checks)
- Strong scripting or programming skills (Python, Go, Bash, or similar)
- Experience with infrastructure as code (Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar)
- Solid understanding of distributed systems, networking, and cloud architecture
Nice to Have
- Background in banking / financial services environments
- Experience with Databricks
- Experience with Snowflake
- Familiarity with data observability and data quality tooling
Job Types: Full-time, Contract
Pay: $48.00 - $52.00 per hour
Work Location: In person