Site Reliability Engineer Lead Houston, TX (Onsite)
Brief Description:
We are seeking an Site Reliability Engineer Lead to own and evolve the reliability, scalability, and operational excellence of cloud-native data platforms running primarily on Google Cloud Platform (GCP). This role supports data systems that ingest, process, and serve large volumes of operational data from oilfield and energy environments. The ideal candidate is a cloud-first SRE with deep GCP experience, strong Python engineering skills, and a track record of leading reliability initiatives for data-intensive systems.
Detailed Description:- Lead SRE practices for GCP-based data platforms
- Design and own SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, and reliability metrics
- Build and maintain cloud-native observability (monitoring, logging, alerting)
- Lead incident response for production cloud systems and drive postmortems
- Partner with data engineering and platform teams to design reliable architecturesutomate operational workflows using PythonDrive improvements in CI/CD, infrastructure as code, and deployment safety
- Mentor engineers and set SRE best practices across the team
- Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:7+ years in SRE, Cloud Platform Engineering, or DevOpsStrong hands-on experience with Google Cloud Platform, including:
GCP: GKE, Compute Engine, Cloud Storage, Pub/Sub (or equivalents)
Cloud Monitoring & Logging BigQueryDataflowDatastreamIAM and networking Composer/AIrflowKubernetes: deployment, scaling, reliability patternsCI/CD: GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or similar Observability: GCP Cloud Monitoring, Logging Experience supporting cloud-native data systems (batch and streaming) Production experience with Python for automation, tooling, or services Infrastructure as Code experience (Terraform strongly preferred) Experience operating systems in 24/7 production environments
Minimum Qualifications:
Bachelor's degree in Business, Information Technology, Computer Science, or a related field.5+ years experience in Site Reliability Engineering, Cloud Platform Engineering, or DevOps 3+ years operating production workloads on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Prior technical leadership experience (lead engineer, tech lead, or ownership of reliability initiatives)bility to understand and speak English at a level of proficiency allowing employee to issue, receive and respond to both safety and operations-related directions in English
Preferred Qualifications: Oil and Gas Industry knowledge Technology/Digital Industry knowledge
