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