Ontrac Solutions is a leading technology consulting firm, specializing in cutting-edge solutions that drive business transformation. They are seeking an experienced Observability / Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to design, scale, and maintain their enterprise monitoring and alerting ecosystems, ensuring high availability and performance across distributed systems.
Responsibilities:
- Architect, optimize, and maintain observability frameworks across cloud environments, with a specific focus on implementing Google Cloud Platform (GCP) observability tools (Cloud Logging, Cloud Monitoring, Trace, and Profiler)
- Design, deploy, and maintain robust observability stacks across hybrid ecosystems, utilizing Prometheus, Grafana, and cloud-native integrations
- Drive infrastructure-as-code (IaC) initiatives using Terraform and Ansible to ensure consistent, automated deployments of infrastructure and observability tooling
- Build, maintain, and optimize deployment workflows within Kubernetes and Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) / OpenShift environments using GitHub, Harness, and other CI/CD pipelines
- Deeply analyze Linux/Unix system administration architectures, optimizing compute resource metrics and performance tuning across complex, distributed environments
- Implement SRE best practices, establishing meaningful Service Level Indicators (SLIs), Service Level Objectives (SLOs), and Error Budgets to ensure platform reliability
Requirements:
- Proven engineering experience within Google Cloud Platform (GCP) environments, particularly managing cloud-native monitoring and compute resources
- Hands-on experience with Grafana, Prometheus, and Google Cloud Observability suites
- Expert-level knowledge of Linux/Unix operating systems paired with strong shell scripting skills for automation and systems management
- Professional coding proficiency in at least one modern language (Python, Go, Java, Perl, or advanced Shell)
- Hands-on experience managing containerized applications on Kubernetes, GKE, and/or Red Hat OpenShift
- Direct experience with GEM (Grafana Enterprise Metrics) is highly desirable