Senior Site Reliability Engineer NEX

Reliability Engineering

● Design, implement, and operate scalable, resilient, and highly available systems on Google Cloud Platform.

● Improve service availability, latency, performance, scalability, and operational resilience.

● Define, implement, and track service-level indicators, service-level objectives, and error budgets.

● Perform capacity planning, performance analysis, and workload forecasting.

● Design and validate disaster recovery, backup, failover, and service-restoration capabilities.

● Implement and maintain secure cloud networking, IAM, workload identities, service accounts, and access-control practices.

● Partner with cybersecurity and identity teams to ensure infrastructure and services follow organizational security standards.

● Monitor cloud consumption and optimize resource utilization, performance, and cost efficiency.

● Identify operational risks and recommend improvements to cloud architecture and service design.

Automation and Platform Engineering

● Build and maintain cloud infrastructure using Terraform or comparable infrastructure-as-code tools.

● Automate repetitive operational activities and systematically identify, measure, and reduce manual toil.

● Build reusable infrastructure modules, deployment patterns, and operational tooling.

● Improve CI/CD pipelines to enable secure, repeatable, and reliable software delivery.

Observability and Incident Management

● Develop actionable alerts that identify meaningful service degradation while reducing alert fatigue and unnecessary operational noise.

● Create and maintain dashboards, runbooks, operational procedures, and troubleshooting documentation.

● Participate in a sustainable on-call rotation supporting production systems.

● Respond to production incidents, coordinate service restoration, and lead incident response when appropriate.

● Facilitate blameless postmortems and identify corrective and preventive actions.

● Use incident and operational data to improve system design, automation, monitoring, and response processes.

Collaboration and Service Ownership

● Partner with software engineering, data engineering, security, and product teams to improve application reliability and production operations.

● Promote shared responsibility for production reliability between application development and platform teams.

● Establish and document reliability standards, operational practices, and reusable engineering patterns.

● Provide technical guidance and coaching on SRE, cloud, Kubernetes, observability, and incident-management practices.

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

● Three or more years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, platform engineering, DevOps, cloud engineering, production software engineering, or a similar role.

● Experience operating highly available systems in a 24/7 production environment.

● Hands-on experience operating workloads on Google Cloud Platform or another major public cloud platform.

● Strong experience managing compute, networking and data GCP services workloads

● Strong experience with containerization and orchestration technologies, including Docker and Kubernetes.

● Experience building and managing infrastructure with Terraform or a comparable infrastructure-as-code tool.

● Proficiency in Python, Go, Java, or another comparable programming language.

● Experience implementing or operating CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions,Azure DevOps, Bitbucket Pipelines, or comparable tools.

● Experience implementing observability using metrics, logs, traces, dashboards, and alerts.

● Experience participating in on-call rotations, responding to incidents, and contributing to postmortems.

● Understanding of SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, and other SRE principles.

● Ability to troubleshoot complex issues across application, infrastructure, network, data, and cloud-service layers.

● Ability to communicate effectively with engineering teams, business stakeholders, and operational personnel.

Minimum Qualifications

● Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

● 3+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, platform engineering, cloud engineering, or DevOps.

● 3+ years of experience operating production workloads in GCP.

● Ability to understand and communicate in English at a level sufficient to issue, receive, and respond to safety-related and operations-related instructions.

Preferred Qualifications

● Google Cloud and/or Kubernetes certifications.

● Experience supporting data-intensive, streaming, analytics, or event-driven platforms.

● Experience establishing production-readiness, incident-management, or reliability-review processes.

● Experience working in the energy, oil and gas, industrial, IoT, field operations, or other operationally critical industries.

● Experience supporting technology environments that integrate cloud platforms with remote sites, field equipment, industrial systems, or edge computing.

The Evolving Oil Field Demands Evolving Service Providers

NexTier is a leading provider of integrated completions that employs sustainable practices and equipment to support our customers’ ESG goals while accelerating production in the most demanding US land basins.

Patterson-UTI is committed to a workplace free from discrimination and harassment, offering equal employment opportunities to all individuals regardless of personal characteristics protected by law. Employees are encouraged to report any concerns through multiple channels.