Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Location US-TX-Austin
Job ID
2026-7784
# Positions
1
Experience (Years)
8
Category
Applications/Software Development
Deadline Date
4/7/2026
Duration (Hours)
780
Duration (Months)
4
Visa Restrictions
Authorized to work in the US

Overview

Allied Consultants, Inc is a proudly Austin based firm with over 34 years of experience delivering top-tier technical and business professionals within Texas State Agencies. We are currently seeking an experience Senior Site Reliability Engineer to play a key role within a high-impact technical services team.

 

At Allied Consultants, we value our consultants and are committed to providing an exceptional experience including:

  • Highly competitive pay rates
  • Local support staff for responsive, personal service
  • Comprehensive benefits package, including:
    • Medical insurance (with employer cost sharing)
    • Life insurance
    • A 401(K) plan with company match
    • Flexible spending through a cafeteria plan

Candidates selected for interviews will be subject to a criminal background check and may be required to pass a drug screening, in compliance with federal and state regulations. All offers of employment are contingent upon successful completion of these checks.

 

Allied Consultants is a proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.

Responsibilities

8 or more years of experience, relies on experience and judgment to plan and accomplish goals, independently performs a variety of complicated tasks, a wide degree of creativity and latitude is expected.

Understands business objectives and problems, identifies alternative solutions, performs studies and cost/benefit analysis of alternatives. Analyzes user requirements, procedures, and problems to automate processing or to improve existing computer system: Confers with personnel of organizational units involved to analyze current operational procedures, identify problems, and learn specific input and output requirements, such as forms of data input, how data is to be; summarized, and formats for reports. Writes detailed description of user needs, program functions, and steps required to develop or modify computer program. Reviews computer system capabilities, specifications, and scheduling limitations to determine if requested program or program change is possible within existing system.

Site Reliability Engineer will be responsible for ensuring the reliability, availability, performance, and scalability of production systems by applying software engineering practices to infrastructure and operations. Partners with development teams to build resilient, observable, and automated platforms that meet defined service level objectives (SLOs).

 

**Location of job: Hybrid, 3 days remote with 2 days (Mondays and Thursdays) onsite. Candidates must be local to Austin, TX**

Qualifications

Minimum Requirements:
Candidates that do not meet or exceed the minimum stated requirements (skills/experience) will be displayed to customers but may not be chosen for this opportunity.

Years

Required/Preferred

Experience

8

Required

experience in systems engineering, DevOps, or site reliability engineering roles

8

Required

Strong experience with Linux/Unix systems and system internals

8

Required

Proficiency in one or more programming/scripting languages (Python, Go, Java, Bash)

8

Required

Experience designing and operating highly available, distributed systems

8

Required

Strong knowledge of cloud platforms (AWS, or GCP) and cloud-native services

8

Required

Experience with containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes)

8

Required

Strong understanding of monitoring, alerting, and logging concepts

8

Required

Experience defining and managing SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets

8

Required

Familiarity with incident management, root cause analysis (RCA), and postmortems

8

Required

Experience integrating security and compliance into operational workflows

4

Preferred

Familiarity with observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, Application Insights, Datadog, Splunk)

4

Preferred

Experience operating 24x7 production environments with on-call rotations

4

Preferred

Experience with chaos engineering and resiliency testing

4

Preferred

Experience with feature flags, canary deployments, and progressive delivery

4

Preferred

Strong documentation skills for runbooks, dashboards, and operational standards

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