Hello ,
My name is Rajat, and I am a Technical Recruiter at K-Tek Resourcing. We are searching for professionals for the below business requirements for one of our clients.
Please send me your updated resume at – [email protected] My number is 832 743 6754.
Role :- SRE Lead
Location :- Houston, TX(Onsite)
Primary skill set – New Relic developer, Automation/Programing (Python or Java), Linux
Job Summary:
We seek an experienced SRE Lead to lead our team in ensuring system reliability, performance, and scalability. The candidate will drive infrastructure automation, optimize performance, and lead incident management, while fostering a culture of continuous improvement
Key Responsibilities:
· Technical Leadership: Build and mentor a team of SREs; set goals, conduct reviews, and drive SRE best practices.
· System Reliability: Oversee the design and maintenance of high-availability systems; lead performance monitoring and issue resolution.
· Automation & CI/CD: Lead development of automation scripts and enhance CI/CD pipelines using tools like Terraform, Ansible, and others
· Observability: Deploy and manage tools (e.g., New Relic) for system monitoring; develop dashboards and alerts
· Incident Management: Lead Root Cause Analysis (RCA) and refine incident response processes
· Performance Optimization: Provide strategic insights to enhance application and database performance (Java, Kafka, SQL)
Qualifications:
· Proven experience managing SRE or related teams in an eCommerce or highly distributed systems environment.
· Strong skills in automation tools (Terraform, Ansible) and observability solutions (New Relic), with an emphasis on managing large-scale distributed systems.
· Experience working with SAP modules in conjunction with custom applications or microservices architectures.
· Good understanding of storage technologies (SAN/NAS), network infrastructure (load balancers, firewalls), and their impact on system performance in high-throughput environments.
· Background in optimizing performance for Java-based applications, Spring Boot services, Kafka message brokers, SQL/NoSQL databases, and middleware components.
· Familiarity with middleware technologies such as Kafka in distributed environments.
· Excellent leadership, problem-solving, communication skills with experience working cross-functionally between development teams, infrastructure teams, and business stakeholders.