Lead Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) – DevOps & Observability

August 24, 2026

Imagine working at Intellibus to engineer platforms that impact billions of lives around the world. With your passion and focus, we will accomplish great things together. Our Platform Engineering Team is looking for experienced DevOps / SRE leaders who can help build highly reliable, observable, and automated infrastructure supporting mission-critical applications. We are looking for hands-on technical leaders with deep experience in Datadog, infrastructure automation, configuration management, Terraform/Chef, Bash/Shell scripting, cloud infrastructure, and production systems. The ideal candidate will also have a strong understanding of Java-based applications and Java coding, as this role will work closely with Java engineering teams and distributed application platforms. We are looking for Architects who can do the below but not limited to:<ul><li>Lead DevOps/SRE initiatives across mission-critical environments.</li><li>Design and implement observability solutions using Datadog.</li><li>Build dashboards, monitors, alerts, logs, traces, and actionable operational metrics.</li><li>Define and improve SLIs, SLOs, SLAs, and error-budget practices.</li><li>Automate infrastructure provisioning and configuration using Terraform, Chef, or similar tools.</li><li>Develop and maintain Bash/Shell scripts for infrastructure and operational automation.</li><li>Manage deployment, configuration, and environment automation across development, QA, and production.</li><li>Troubleshoot complex production, infrastructure, networking, and application issues.</li><li>Improve system availability, scalability, performance, and reliability.</li><li>Support CI/CD pipelines and automated deployments.</li><li>Work closely with Java engineering teams to understand application behavior, performance, dependencies, and production issues.</li><li>Analyze Java applications from an operational perspective, including JVM behavior, memory, CPU, threads, logs, and application performance.</li><li>Participate in incident response, root-cause analysis, and post-mortems.</li><li>Identify opportunities to eliminate manual processes through automation.</li><li>Establish operational standards, runbooks, and best practices.</li><li>Provide technical leadership and mentor other DevOps/SRE engineers.</li></ul> Core DevOps / SRE ResponsibilitiesObservability<ul><li>Hands-on Datadog experience is required.</li><li>Build and maintain dashboards and actionable alerts.</li><li>Monitor applications, infrastructure, services, APIs, and databases.</li><li>Configure APM, logs, metrics, traces, and service-level monitoring.</li><li>Identify performance and reliability issues before they impact clients.</li><li>Infrastructure Automation</li><li>Design and maintain infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (IaC).</li><li>Strong experience with Terraform and/or Chef.</li><li>Automate configuration management and environment provisioning.</li><li>Manage infrastructure consistency and configuration drift.</li><li>Develop reusable automation frameworks and modules.</li><li>Scripting & Automation</li><li>Strong Bash/Shell scripting experience.</li><li>Automate deployments, operational processes, monitoring, and infrastructure tasks.</li><li>Python scripting is a plus.</li><li>Ability to troubleshoot scripts and automation failures in production.</li><li>Java Application Understanding</li><li>This is not a Java Developer position, but candidates must have a strong understanding of Java-based applications.</li></ul> Should be able to:<ul><li>Read and understand Java code.</li><li>Troubleshoot Java application issues from an infrastructure/SRE perspective.</li><li>Understand JVM, memory, CPU, threads, garbage collection, and application performance.</li><li>Work effectively with Java/Spring Boot engineering teams.</li><li>Understand REST APIs, microservices, and distributed applications.</li><li>Cloud & Platform Engineering.</li></ul> Key Skills & Qualifications:<ul><li>12+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, Infrastructure Engineering, Platform Engineering, or related roles.</li><li>8+ years of hands-on DevOps/SRE leadership experience.</li><li>Strong hands-on Datadog experience.</li><li>Strong experience with Terraform and/or Chef.</li><li>Strong Bash/Shell scripting skills.</li><li>Strong Linux/UNIX experience.</li><li>Strong cloud infrastructure experience.</li><li>Strong understanding of Java applications and Java coding.</li><li>Experience supporting distributed systems and microservices.</li><li>Experience with CI/CD and deployment automation.</li><li>Experience troubleshooting production environments.</li><li>Strong understanding of networking fundamentals.</li><li>Experience with monitoring, logging, alerting, and observability.</li><li>Experience leading technical initiatives and mentoring engineers.</li><li>Excellent communication and problem-solving skills.</li></ul> We work closely with<ul><li>Kubernetes</li><li>Docker</li><li>AWS</li><li>Jenkins</li><li>Kafka</li><li>Splunk / ELK</li><li>Prometheus / Grafana</li><li>New Relic</li><li>CloudWatch</li><li>Python</li><li>Spring Boot</li><li>Microservices</li><li>Event-driven architecture</li><li>Performance engineering</li><li>Incident management / SRE practices</li></ul> Compensation: $75 - $85 / Hour Our Process<ul><li>Schedule a 15 min Video Call with someone from our Team</li><li>1 Proctored GQ Test (< 60 Minutes) & Google Doc Presentation</li><li>30-45 min Final & Technical Video Interview</li><li>Receive Job Offer</li></ul> If you are interested in reaching out to us, please apply, and our team will contact you within the hour.

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