Site Reliability Engineer – Oil & Gas

Client: oil and gas company (upstream operator, Houston HQ) · Location: remote, LATAM, Houston business hours · Level: senior · Engagement: full-time contractor, on-call rotation

You will own the reliability of the platforms behind field operations: production monitoring, data ingestion and the applications engineers use around the clock.
What you will do

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Set SLOs for operations-critical systems and report on them to IT and operations leadership

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Run hybrid infrastructure: Azure (AKS) plus on-premise and edge sites with limited connectivity

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Build monitoring and alerting that covers both cloud services and field data flows

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Lead incident response and postmortems, coordinating with OT and network teams

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Automate infrastructure with Terraform and Ansible and deployments with GitHub Actions or Azure DevOps

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Plan capacity and disaster recovery for 24/7 operations

What you bring

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5+ years in SRE, DevOps or infrastructure engineering

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Strong Kubernetes, Linux and infrastructure as code

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Experience with Azure or AWS in hybrid setups

- Scripting in Python, Go or PowerShell

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Track record running on-call for systems where downtime has operational cost

- Advanced English

Nice to have

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Exposure to OT/IT integration, SCADA networks or IEC 62443

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Energy, utilities or industrial background

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Experience with edge computing or low-bandwidth sites

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