Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Senior Site Reliability Engineer – Linux Focused

Location: Hybrid - McKinney, TX 75070 Type: Contract to Hire - client will not sponsor. Please, no C2C.

Our client is actively hiring a Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to join their growing team. This is a fantastic opportunity for a seasoned Linux Systems Administrator to transition into a formal SRE role and contribute directly to product development and platform scalability.

What You’ll Do

• Own the reliability, availability, and performance of production infrastructure.
• Collaborate closely with developers to design, build, and maintain scalable systems.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning and management using tools like Terraform, Ansible, and Kubernetes.
• Build and enhance observability into systems using monitoring and logging tools.
• Participate in incident response and post-mortem analysis.
• Improve system reliability through rigorous testing, automation, and continuous delivery practices.

Ideal Background

• Strong Linux system administration experience, ideally with hundreds or thousands of servers in production.
• Solid experience with one or more of the following:
  • Kubernetes
  • Terraform
  • Ansible
  • Monitoring/observability stacks (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, etc.)
• Comfortable with troubleshooting complex issues in a distributed environment.
• Familiarity with on-prem hardware management, particularly systems deployed at customer sites, is a major plus.