Senior/Lead Site Reliability Engineer

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🕒 October 6

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

⛑ DevOps & Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

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Stratus

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501 - 1000 employees

Founded 2001

🛡️ Insurance

💼 Consulting

📦 Logistics

Insurance • Consulting • Logistics

Stratus is a B2B technology and consulting firm that helps property & casualty insurers and Managing General Agents modernize legacy core systems, migrate to the cloud, and transform insurance data to enable faster product launches, better analytics, and operational efficiency. It offers domain-focused services including Guidewire and Insurity implementation and optimization, cloud migration roadmaps on Azure, AI readiness and execution, data strategy and governance, application maintenance and QA, platform selection support, and on-demand IT talent via embedded delivery pods. Stratus positions itself as a high-touch partner delivering practical, people-first modernization and talent solutions for insurance technology transformation.

📋 Description

• Define and own service level indicators, objectives, and error budgets for customer-facing services • Build measurement pipelines and regularly publish availability and latency against targets • Build and own production observability, including instrumentation standards, dashboards, and actionable alerting • Establish and run incident response practices, including on-call rotations, paging paths, severity definitions, incident ownership, escalations, and blameless post-mortems • Define rollback and recovery standards and verify them through regular exercises • Lead performance and capacity engineering, including query and index tuning, connection-pool sizing, capacity modeling, and graceful degradation design • Work with the team running k6 load, stress, spike, and soak testing; establish latency thresholds tied to SLOs and make results a delivery gate • Drive production readiness reviews covering instrumentation, alerting, failure modes, resource limits, and rollback • Track post-mortem remediation items through verified production changes • Contribute to business continuity and disaster recovery planning, including backup and restore validation, failover design, and recovery objectives • Partner with engineering pods to expand reliability ownership and coach teams on operating their services • Write tooling, automation, instrumentation libraries, and production-code fixes • Work across engineering pods, platform and security functions, and customer-facing teams

🎯 Requirements

• 6-8+ years of professional engineering experience • 3-5+ years in a dedicated SRE or production engineering role at a B2B SaaS company • Demonstrated ownership of SLOs and error budgets in production • Deep practical observability skills with Prometheus, Loki, Tempo, and Grafana or comparable tools • Hands-on incident command experience at meaningful severity • Experience building on-call and escalation practice from the ground up • Strong database performance skills, including query profiling, index design, connection pooling, and diagnosing saturation under load • MongoDB experience strongly preferred; comparable document or relational depth acceptable • Production Kubernetes experience; AKS preferred • Ability to debug pod scheduling, resource limits, networking, and service mesh behavior • Solid coding ability in Go, Python, C#, or TypeScript • Willingness to work in a C#/.NET codebase • Experience with load and performance testing tooling such as k6, JMeter, or Gatling • Production experience on Azure or AWS • Fluency with AI-assisted engineering tooling and experience designing AI-leveraged workflows • Excellent written communication • Judgment and steadiness under pressure • Nice-to-have experience includes SRE practice development, Sentry, event-driven systems, MongoDB Atlas, durable workflow orchestration, multi-region or multi-zone architecture, incident management platforms, DORA metrics, SOC 2/NIST 800-171, legacy monolith reliability, MEP/BIM/AEC/construction technology, and Series B/growth-stage companies • Eligibility to work in the U.S. is verified post-hire through E-Verify

🏖️ Benefits

• Primarily remote work • US Eastern time preferred