Observability Engineer / Site Reliability Engineer
Ontrac Solutions · Chicago, IL
$187,200–$208,000
Jul 16, 2026
Chicago, IL
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
This role focuses on designing, scaling, and maintaining enterprise-grade monitoring and alerting systems across distributed multi-cloud environments, with a strong emphasis on GCP. Day-to-day work spans building observability pipelines with tools like Prometheus, Grafana, and GCP-native services, automating infrastructure via Terraform and Ansible, managing Kubernetes-based CI/CD workflows, and establishing SRE practices such as SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets. It suits engineers with solid GCP, Linux, and container orchestration experience.
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What the occupation pays Median $138,970 (middle half $107,524–$175,762).
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Why we read it this way (6)
The role is classified as Software Developers (15-1252) rather than Systems Administrators (15-1244) because the JD emphasizes building observability pipelines, IaC automation, and CI/CD workflows — shipping tooling — rather than purely operating existing infrastructure. The runner-up is 15-1244 given the strong Linux/Unix administration and monitoring operations language.
Terraform and Ansible appear in the Responsibilities section (not a formal Requirements block) and are framed as initiatives to 'drive' rather than hard gates; they are marked preferred accordingly. GitHub, Harness, and CI/CD similarly appear only in the responsibilities narrative.
GKE and OpenShift are listed as alternatives for the container orchestration requirement ('GKE and/or OpenShift'); Kubernetes is listed separately as its own hard gate since it is named independently in the Required Skills section.
Python is listed as the primary programming language with Go, Java, Perl, and advanced Shell as named alternatives ('at least one modern language'); Shell scripting is also listed as a separate standalone requirement in the OS & Scripting section.
Grafana Enterprise Metrics (GEM) is explicitly called 'highly desirable' in the Required Skills section, making it preferred rather than a hard gate.
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