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You will partner closely with Engineering, Architecture, Security, and Product teams to improve system reliability, scalability, resiliency, and performance through automation, observability, and engineering excellence.\nYou will establish reliability standards, define SLOs and SLIs, drive adoption of reliability best practices, and leverage data-driven insights to continuously improve customer experience and platform health. As a technical expert, you will influence architecture decisions, lead reliability initiatives, and help engineering teams build highly available, fault-tolerant systems at scale.\nLocation: St. Louis, MO (hybrid)\nResponsibilities\nDesign, implement, and evolve Site Reliability Engineering practices for mission-critical applications and distributed systems.\nDefine, implement, and govern Service Level Objectives (SLOs), Service Level Indicators (SLIs), and error budgets to measure and improve service reliability.\nDrive reliability improvements through automation, self-healing capabilities, resiliency engineering, and reduction of operational toil.\nPartner with engineering teams to embed reliability, scalability, security, and observability requirements into system architecture and software development lifecycles.\nDevelop and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC), platform automation, CI/CD pipelines, and reliability tooling to improve deployment consistency and operational efficiency.\nLead reliability reviews, architecture assessments, and resiliency testing efforts, including failure mode analysis, fault injection, and chaos engineering practices.\nDesign and implement comprehensive observability solutions utilizing metrics, logs, traces, synthetic monitoring, and real user monitoring.\nAnalyze production performance, reliability trends, and failure patterns to proactively identify systemic risks and drive long-term improvements.\nCollaborate with development teams to optimize application performance, scalability, resource utilization, and cloud infrastructure efficiency.\nProvide technical leadership during complex production incidents by supporting root cause analysis and identifying opportunities for reliability improvements.\nDrive adoption of engineering best practices for high availability, disaster recovery, fault tolerance, and business continuity.\nEstablish reliability standards, reference architectures, engineering patterns, and platform capabilities to enable scalable and resilient service delivery.\nMentor engineers and act as a subject matter expert in SRE, cloud architecture, observability, automation, and distributed systems engineering.\nRequirements\n10+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, Software Engineering, Platform Engineering, Infrastructure Engineering, or DevOps, supporting large-scale, highly available systems.\nDeep experience designing, operating, and optimizing cloud-native and distributed systems in public cloud environments (Preferably GCP).\nStrong expertise in reliability engineering concepts, including SLOs, SLIs, error budgets, availability modeling, scalability, resiliency, and performance engineering.\nHands-on experience building infrastructure and platform automation using Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform or CloudFormation.\nStrong experience with Kubernetes, container platforms, orchestration technologies, and modern cloud-native architectures.\nExperience 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