SRE Engineer - 10+ Years - Buffalo, NY Onsite

Role: SRE Engineer

Location: Buffalo, NY Onsite.

Note: Need only locals from NY, NJ, CT, PA only.

JD:

• Combined minimum of 10 years higher education and/or work experience in systems design, management and/or architecture
• 10+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps or system design and/or architecture similar roles.
• 5+ years of experience leading or managing observability initiatives.
• Strong hands-on experience with monitoring tools like Kibana, Dynatrace, Datadog, or similar.
• Solid understanding of observability concepts (metrics, logging, tracing, alerting) and frameworks (e.g., OpenTelemetry).
• Experience with cloud environments such as AWS, Google Cloud, or Azure.
• Familiarity with containerization (Docker, Kubernetes) and orchestration platforms.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and ability to troubleshoot complex distributed systems.
• Mid-level programming skills in Python, Jason, PowerShell, or other relevant languages.
• Experience with incident response and post-mortem analysis.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills
• Advanced analytical skills, Advanced troubleshooting skills and Advanced problem solving skills
• Education and Experience Preferred:
• Familiarity with infrastructure as code (Terraform, CloudFormation).
• Login and enrollment instrumentation using SLO/SLI and measuring FCI and FSI.
• Experience in building and maintaining distributed systems at scale.
• Knowledge of security best practices in observability.
• Certifications in Cloud (AWS, Google Cloud Platform, Azure), SRE or DevOps are a plus.
• Process-oriented, Logical thinker
• Strong knowledge of server/client and virtual technologies
• Adaptable, Able to learn quickly in a rapid pace environment

Regards,

pradeep(@)smg-llc(.)us