Site Reliability Engineer II

Role Overview

Cority is hiring a Site Reliability Engineer II to support the reliability, performance, and scalability of cloud-hosted services and database platforms. You will work with senior engineers to apply SRE best practices, improve automation and monitoring, and participate in incident response while applying foundational DBA skills to ensure availability and recoverability of critical data services.

Responsibilities

• Support cloud operations across Production, Customer Sales, and Professional Services environments with a focus on reliability and performance.
• Define and track SLIs/SLOs and participate in incident response.
• Build and maintain monitoring dashboards and alerts.
• Support managed and self-hosted databases including SQL Server, PostgreSQL, and Oracle.
• Perform DBA tasks such as backups, restores, integrity checks, and performance troubleshooting.
• Contribute to automation for provisioning, patching, and deployments using IaC and scripting.
• Collaborate with engineering teams on schema enhancements and query analysis.
• Participate in CI/CD and integrate database changes into pipelines.
• Maintain clear documentation, including runbooks and operational procedures.

Required Qualifications

• 4–6 years in SRE, Cloud Operations, DevOps, or related roles.
• Production experience with SQL Server or PostgreSQL.
• Basic understanding of cloud database platforms such as Amazon RDS or Azure SQL Database.
• Scripting experience with PowerShell, Bash, or Python.
• Familiarity with monitoring and alerting tools.
• Understanding of CI/CD and exposure to tools such as GitLab, Jenkins, or Octopus Deploy.
• Strong troubleshooting and communication skills.
• Exposure to container orchestration via ECS Fargate or Kubernetes and containerized Windows/Linux workloads.
• Familiarity with database migration tools such as Flyway or Liquibase.

Nice to Have

• Experience with Redis or other caching layers.
• Familiarity with database performance tooling (e.g., SolarWinds DPA).

Success Indicators

• Improved reliability metrics and fewer recurring incidents.
• Increased automation that reduces manual work.
• Strong collaboration with steady progression toward taking ownership of services.