Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE Lead)
Job details
- Pay
- $165,000 – $200,000 a year
- Work mode
- On-site
- Employment
- Full-time
- Level
- Staff / principal
- Posted
- Oct 20, 2026
- Last confirmed open
- Oct 20, 2026
About this role
Company: Nomiso
Employment Type: Full-Time
Location: Scottsdale, Arizona – 100% Onsite at Client Headquarters
Start Date: Immediately
Experience Level: Senior / Lead
About the Role
Nomiso is seeking a highly experienced Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE Lead) to lead the development and implementation of a comprehensive Site Reliability Engineering practice for one of our enterprise clients.
This is a hands-on technical leadership opportunity focused on improving application reliability, establishing observability and monitoring standards, reducing production incidents, and building scalable, resilient systems.
The ideal candidate combines deep SRE expertise with strong technical leadership skills and a proven track record of implementing reliability engineering best practices across complex enterprise environments.
Key Responsibilities
SRE Strategy and Technical Leadership
- Lead the design and implementation of SRE practices, standards, and operational frameworks.
- Establish Service Level Indicators (SLIs), Service Level Objectives (SLOs), and error-budget policies.
- Partner with engineering leadership and application teams to define and improve reliability targets.
- Provide technical guidance, mentorship, and best practices to SRE and development teams.
Observability, Monitoring, and Alerting
- Design and standardize enterprise monitoring, logging, tracing, and alerting practices.
- Work with technologies including Splunk, AppDynamics, ELK, Cribl, and OpenTelemetry.
- Implement actionable, SLO-based alerting to reduce alert fatigue and improve incident detection.
- Lead observability architecture decisions and distributed tracing implementations.
Incident Management and Production Reliability
- Establish incident response standards, escalation procedures, and root cause analysis practices.
- Drive blameless postmortems and ensure corrective actions are implemented.
- Improve incident detection, mitigation, and recovery times.
- Define production readiness reviews, runbooks, and operational standards.
Resiliency and Automation
- Design strategies for improving application resilience, including retries, timeouts, circuit breakers, and graceful degradation.
- Identify and automate repetitive operational tasks to reduce manual intervention.
- Collaborate with engineering teams to improve system performance, stability, and scalability.
- Establish reliability metrics and dashboards to measure ongoing improvements.
Required Qualifications
- Extensive professional experience in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, Platform Engineering, or Production Engineering.
- Proven experience leading enterprise SRE initiatives and implementing reliability engineering practices.
- Strong knowledge of SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, and incident management.
- Hands-on experience with monitoring, observability, distributed tracing, and alerting solutions.
- Strong understanding of distributed systems, application resiliency, and production troubleshooting.
- Experience with operational automation and engineering best practices.
- Excellent technical leadership, communication, and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to work full-time onsite in Scottsdale, Arizona.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with Splunk, AppDynamics, ELK, Cribl, FireHydrant, and OpenTelemetry.
- Experience establishing or transforming SRE practices within enterprise organizations.
- Experience with large-scale, high-availability, customer-facing applications.
- Telecommunications industry experience.
- Experience mentoring engineers and collaborating across multiple technical teams.
Why Join Nomiso?
At Nomiso, you'll have the opportunity to work on high-impact enterprise technology initiatives, collaborate with experienced engineering teams, and play a key role in building reliable, scalable technology platforms.
This position offers the opportunity to shape reliability engineering practices and make a measurable impact on enterprise application performance and operational excellence.
Pay: $165,000.00 - $200,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- 401(k)
- 401(k) matching
- Dental insurance
- Health insurance
- Health savings account
- Life insurance
- Paid time off
- Vision insurance
Application Question(s):
- Are you willing to working full-time on-site at our clients headquarters in Scottsdale, AZ?
- Will you now or in the future require employment visa sponsorship?
Work Location
In person