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 • Set SLOs for operations-critical systems and report on them to IT and operations leadership • Run hybrid infrastructure: Azure (AKS) plus on-premise and edge sites with limited connectivity • Build monitoring and alerting that covers both cloud services and field data flows • Lead incident response and postmortems, coordinating with OT and network teams • Automate infrastructure with Terraform and Ansible and deployments with GitHub Actions or Azure DevOps • Plan capacity and disaster recovery for 24/7 operations What you bring • 5+ years in SRE, DevOps or infrastructure engineering • Strong Kubernetes, Linux and infrastructure as code • Experience with Azure or AWS in hybrid setups • Scripting in Python, Go or PowerShell • Track record running on-call for systems where downtime has operational cost • Advanced English Nice to have • Exposure to OT/IT integration, SCADA networks or IEC 62443 • Energy, utilities or industrial background • Experience with edge computing or low-bandwidth sites Originally posted on Himalayas