Site Reliability Engineer Jobs in New Jersey

Job Title: Cloud Infrastructure SRE
Duration: 12+ Months Contract-to-Hire
Location: Alpharetta, GA or Berkeley Heights, NJ
Required Pay Scale: $70-$85 on W2 (160k)

Due to client requirements this role is only open to USC or GC candidates

Job Summary:

We are seeking an experienced Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to join a Cloud Observability team focused on improving cloud infrastructure reliability, monitoring strategy, and operational excellence. This individual will play a key role in observability initiatives, cloud monitoring implementations, reliability improvements, and proactive risk identification across large-scale cloud environments.

Key Responsibilities

- Drive cloud observability and monitoring initiatives across enterprise cloud environments.
- Configure and optimize Dynatrace for monitoring, alerting, dashboards, and operational visibility.
- Partner with engineering and operations teams to improve system reliability and performance.
- Identify reliability risks, scalability concerns, and monitoring gaps before they impact production.
- Support distributed systems running in cloud environments.
- Contribute to architecture reviews, operational planning, and reliability discussions.
- Leverage observability data to improve incident prevention and root cause analysis.
- Collaborate with teams responsible for application operations and cloud infrastructure.
- Assist in the adoption of AI-driven operational and monitoring capabilities.

Required SkillsMust-Have

- Strong hands-on experience with Terraform
- Strong hands-on experience with Dynatrace
- Cloud observability and monitoring expertise
- Experience with AWS and/or Azure
- Exposure to or willingness to learn GCP
- Experience supporting distributed systems in production environments
- Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), Cloud Operations, DevOps, or Infrastructure Engineering background
- Familiarity with Splunk for logging and monitoring
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Preferred

- Experience implementing or optimizing observability platforms
- Exposure to AI-enabled monitoring or operational tools
- Experience evaluating or implementing AI-driven operational capabilities
- Large-scale cloud environment experience

Interview Process Round 1

- Virtual Interview
- Microsoft Teams
- Interview scheduling coordinated through the recruiting team
- No interview recordings permitted

Final Round

- Onsite Interview
- Approximately 1 hour
- Business Casual Attire
- Additional rounds may be conducted if needed

Important Notes

- All interviews will be conducted through Microsoft Teams.
- Candidates must be comfortable working onsite five days per week.
- Strong communication and documentation skills will be evaluated throughout the interview process.

About Matlen Silver

Experience Matters. Let your experience be driven by our experience. For more than 40 years, Matlen Silver has delivered solutions for complex talent and technology needs to Fortune 500 companies and industry leaders. Led by hard work, honesty, and a trusted team of experts, we can say that Matlen Silver technology has created a solutions experience and legacy of success that is the difference in the way the world works.

Matlen Silver is an Equal Opportunity Employer and considers all applicants for all positions without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, sexual orientation, veteran status, the presence of a non-job-related medical condition or disability, or any other legally protected status.

If you are a person with a disability needing assistance with the application or at any point in the hiring process, please contact us at email and/or phone at: info@matlensilver.com // 908-393-8600

At The Matlen Silver Group, Inc., W2 employees are eligible for the following benefits:
- Health, vision, and dental insurance (single and family coverage)
- 401(k) plan (employee contributions only)