Site Reliability Engineer NEX

Patterson-UTI

Experience: 3+ yrs
Location: Houston, Texas, United States
Job type: Full-time

Required skills

GCP
Compute Engine
GKE
Cloud Run
Cloud Storage
Pub/Sub
Docker
Kubernetes
Terraform
Python
Go
Java
GitHub Actions
GitLab CI
Prometheus
Grafana
Cloud Monitoring
Cloud Logging
BigQuery
Dataflow
Datastream
IAM
Composer
Airflow

About the role

The NexTier Technology team is looking for a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to help build, scale, and maintain highly reliable systems on Google Cloud Platform (GCP). This role blends software engineering with infrastructure expertise to ensure our services are performant, resilient, and cost-efficient.
Candidates will work closely with engineering teams to improve system reliability, automate operations, and embed best practices across the platform.

Detailed Description:

Design, implement, and manage scalable, reliable infrastructure on GCP
Maintain and improve system availability, performance, and latency
Build and manage infrastructure as code using tools like Terraform or similar
Develop automation to reduce manual operational work
Monitor systems using observability tools (metrics, logs, tracing) and respond to incidents
Participate in on-call rotations and lead incident response and postmortems
Collaborate with development teams to improve service reliability and deployment processes
Optimize cloud resource usage and cost efficiency
Implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines for reliable software delivery
Define and track SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

3+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, or similar roles
Strong experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) services (e.g., Compute Engine, GKE, Cloud Run, Cloud Storage)
Experience with containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes)
Proficiency in at least one programming language (e.g., Python, Go, Java)
Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform preferred)
Solid understanding of networking, security, and distributed systems
Experience with monitoring and logging tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, Cloud Monitoring)
Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and automation tools
Hands-on experience with Google Cloud Platform, including:
GCP: GKE, Compute Engine, Cloud Storage, Pub/Sub (or equivalents)
Cloud Monitoring & Logging
BigQuery
Dataflow
Datastream
IAM and networking
Composer/AIrflow
Kubernetes: deployment, scaling, reliability patterns
CI/CD: GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or similar
Observability: GCP Cloud Monitoring, Logging
Experience operating systems in 24/7 production environments

Minimum Qualifications:

Bachelor’s degree in Business, Information Technology, Computer Science, or a related field.
3+ years experience in Site Reliability Engineering, Cloud Platform Engineering, or DevOps
3+ years operating production workloads on Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
Ability 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

Company

The Evolving Oil Field Demands Evolving Service Providers

NexTier is a leading provider of integrated completions that employs sustainable practices and equipment to support our customers’ ESG goals while accelerating production in the most demanding US land basins.

About Patterson-UTI

Provides land drilling and well completion services for energy.

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