If you’re looking to continually build and apply your Google Cloud expertise to new and varied environments while acting as a key contributor to building the best Google consulting partner in the industry – let’s talk.
Responsibilities
Our ideal candidate will understand the value of teamwork. We are looking for the right fit with our rapidly growing organization and will invest in training.
We are based in Chicago, Illinois and Denver, Colorado. Remote candidates should not hesitate applying. A 66degrees’ Site Reliability Engineer’s responsibilities and duties are as follows:
Ensure near-zero downtime with monitoring and alerting, self-healing automation, and continuous improvement
Create highly automated, available and scalable systems by applying software and infrastructure principles
Employ and advise clients on DevOps and SRE principles and practices, covering deployment pipelines, HA, service reliability, technical debt, and operational toil for live services running at scale
Provide a proactive approach to our clients’ workloads, anticipating failures, automating tasks, ensuring availability, and providing a great customer experience
Work closely with clients, your team, and Google engineers to investigate and resolve infrastructure issues
Contribute to ad-hoc initiatives such as writing documentation, open-sourcing, and improving operation, making a huge impact at a rapid-growth Google Premier Partner
Qualifications
Minimum 3+ years of cloud and infrastructure experience, including demonstrated expertise with Linux, Windows, k8s, databases, and networking services
2+ years of Google Cloud experience and related certifications strongly preferred but not required
Proficiency with Python required. Other programming language experience is a plus
Strong provisioning and configuration skills using Terraform
Experience with 24x7x365 monitoring, incident response, and on-call support.
Experience in troubleshooting that spans systems, network, and code
Experience determining & negotiating Error budgets, SLIs, SLOs, and SLAs with product owners
Demonstrate the ability to work independently and as a member of a greater team, including cross-team activities
Experience working in Agile Scrum, Kanban methodologies in SDLC
Proven experience balancing service reliability, metrics, sustainability, technical debt, and operational toil for live services running at scale
Strong communication skills, as this is a heavily customer-facing role
Bachelor’s degree in computer science, electrical engineering, or equivalent required
Please note, we cannot sponsor or transfer any visas, of any kind, at this time.
66degrees is an Equal Opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to actual or perceived race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity, national origin, age, weight, height, marital status, sexual orientation, veteran status, disability status or other legally protected class.
AI Transparency & Disclosure
As an AI transformation partner, 66degrees leverages intelligent solutions to enhance our recruitment experience. We utilize AI tools—including LinkedIn Recruiter’s Hiring Assistant and interview transcription technologies—to assist with sourcing, role analysis, and capturing interview highlights.
These tools augment our process, but we "Commit to Our Craft" by ensuring all final hiring decisions are made by our human Talent Team. By applying, you acknowledge the use of these technologies to help us "Win Together" in finding the best fit for our team.
