Senior Site Reliability Engineer II

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. Drive day-to-day operations for the Life Sciences SRE team .

Posted 10/8/2026full-timeUnited StatesSenior💰 $104,900 - $174,700 per yearWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) with a focus on reliability improvements, incident management, and operational excellence. Proficient in leveraging cloud technologies, particularly Microsoft Azure, to enhance system performance and resilience.

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Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)Microsoft AzureIncident ManagementAI-Assisted DevelopmentInfrastructure-as-Code

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Hard Skills

Reliability EngineeringToil-Reduction ProjectsFull-Stack ObservabilityPerformance OptimizationDisaster Recovery PlanningTerraformAzure DevOps PipelinesGitHubAzure MonitorLog Analytics

Soft Skills

MentoringCollaborationCoaching

Tools & Technologies

Azure VMs/VMSSAzure FunctionsAzure Kubernetes Service (AKS)DatadogAI/ML Tools

Certifications & Qualifications

Public Trust Security Clearance

Industry Keywords

Incident AnalysisBlameless Post-MortemsRoot-Cause AnalysisHigh-Availability SystemsResiliency Patterns

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AzureKubernetesSDLCTerraform

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Drive day-to-day operations for the Life Sciences SRE team
Support priorities set by the SRE Manager
Deliver reliability and toil-reduction initiatives with SREs and contractors
Partner with the Senior Software Architect for Life Sciences to modernize processes, tooling, and development strategy
Collaborate with SREs across Reed Tech to converge on common tools, standards, and practices
Influence service level objectives across Life Sciences production systems
Participate in major incident resolution as an escalation point and guide restoration efforts
Troubleshoot and resolve complex systems and application issues across development and production environments
Improve the SRE framework and contribute to shared SRE knowledge documentation
Create disaster recovery plans
Mentor and prepare junior SREs for on-call readiness
Champion AI-assisted development and operational tooling
Implement reusable dashboards, observability standards, SLOs, and error budgets
Conduct incident analysis, performance optimization, blameless post-mortems, and root-cause analysis
Support platform modernization, CI/CD and SDLC improvements, standard platform adoption, and operational health reporting
Advise on reliability improvements and SRE standards
Promote SRE best practices, coach engineers, identify skill gaps, and champion automation and toil reduction

Requirements

What you’ll need

U.S. citizenship required
Must successfully pass a background investigation and achieve Public Trust security clearance
Preference for candidates located near the Horsham, PA office for a hybrid onsite schedule
Experience as an SRE and ability to serve as a technical resource for reliability engineering
Experience owning complex reliability and toil-reduction projects
Experience acting as an escalation point during major incidents
Experience with Microsoft Azure
Experience with Azure VMs/VMSS, App Service, Azure Functions, and growing use of Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
Experience with Azure DevOps Pipelines
Experience with source control and GitHub; GitHub Actions under evaluation
Experience with Azure Monitor and Log Analytics; Datadog supplemental
Experience with Terraform
Experience using AI-assisted coding tools such as Claude, GitHub Copilot, or Codex
Interest or hands-on experience applying AI/ML to observability, automation, or incident response
Comfort experimenting with and evaluating emerging AI tooling
Strong understanding of full-stack observability, incident analysis, and performance optimization
Experience with on-call readiness, mentoring, major incident response, blameless post-mortems, and root-cause analysis
Advanced knowledge of high-availability systems, resiliency patterns, deployment strategies, and recovery practices
Experience with failover testing, production recovery, and automating recovery processes using Infrastructure-as-Code and configuration management tools

Benefits

Comp & perks

Comprehensive, multi-carrier program for medical, dental and vision benefits
401(k) with match
Employee Share Purchase Plan
Wellness platform with incentives
Headspace app subscription
Employee Assistance and Time-off Programs
Short-and-Long Term Disability, Life and Accidental Death Insurance, Critical Illness, and Hospital Indemnity
Family Benefits, including bonding and family care leaves, adoption and surrogacy benefits
Health Savings, Health Care, Dependent Care and Commuter Spending Accounts
Up to two days of paid leave each to participate in Employee Resource Groups and to volunteer with your charity of choice
Flexible hours
Shared parental leave
Study assistance
Sabbaticals