Design, scale, and optimize observability solutions using Prometheus, Grafana, and Dynatrace. Apply SRE principles to improve application reliability and drive reliability maturity across multi-team environments.
Key Highlights
Technical Skills Required
Benefits & Perks
Job Description
Site Reliability Engineer
*6-12 month contract*
Fully Remote
Optomi, in partnership with one of our premier clients in the telecommunication industry, is seeking a highly skilled Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) with strong observability expertise, proven communication skills, and the ability to drive reliability maturity across multi-team environments. This role is ideal for someone who can blend deep technical proficiency with strategic thinking and collaborative influence.
Key Responsibilities
Observability Engineering
- Design, scale, optimize, and manage Prometheus and Grafana environments.
- Write advanced PromQL queries, dashboards, visualizations, and metric-based calculations.
- Build out and maintain Grafana instances, supporting multi-team use cases.
- Leverage Dynatrace with strong proficiency in metrics and analytics to deliver efficient, actionable observability solutions for engineering and operations teams (e.g., dashboards, insights, reports).
- Analyze telemetry data to identify the metrics that matter (MTM), drive actionable insights, and influence engineering decisions.
Site Reliability Engineering
- Apply and evolve an SRE Maturity Model to help teams mature across observability, resilience, automation, and reliability.
- Establish, implement, and maintain Service Level Objectives (SLOs) and error budgets across applications and services.
- Partner effectively with engineering, product, operations, and leadership teams; translate complex technical insights into clear, actionable communication.
- Identify and reduce toil through automation, tooling improvements, and process refinement.
- Support incident analysis, reliability reviews, and continuous improvement initiatives.
Required Skills & Experience
- Familiarity with SRE principles, maturity models, and reliability roadmaps.
- Demonstrated experience improving application reliability via data-driven decisions.
- Hands-on experience with Prometheus, Grafana, and PromQL.
- Strong understanding of Dynatrace, metric analysis, and observability practices.
- Excellent communication skills and ability to collaborate across diverse technical and non-technical teams.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a bias for action.
Nice to Have
- Experience with Kubernetes, cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure), or CI/CD pipelines.
- Experience with automation.
- Experience with large-scale distributed systems or high-availability architectures.