Senior Site Reliability Engineer
 Koch Business Solutions, LP | |
life insurance, parental leave
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 United States, Kansas, Wichita | |
 Mar 11, 2025 | |
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Your Job
Koch Global Services is on a mission to transform how we deliver reliable and scalable services to Koch. We are building an SRE capability from the ground up-modernizing legacy monitoring tools and practices. This transformation will drive a culture of reliability, accountability, and automation. If you are passionate about designing resilient systems, influencing strategic decisions, and mentoring the next generation of SREs, this is your opportunity to make a significant impact. This role is more than just engineering-it's about driving a transformation in how we deliver reliable, scalable, and observable services. If you're excited about the opportunity to build and influence a modern SRE capability from the ground up, we want to hear from you! What You Will Do * Design and implement modern observability solutions to enhance service reliability and accountability * Define and measure service performance through SLIs, SLOs, and SLAs to drive intentional service reliability strategies * Partner with stakeholders to advocate for and drive reliability best practices, ensuring alignment with business objectives * Mentor and develop engineers, fostering a culture of continuous learning and growth Who You Are (Basic Qualifications) * Expertise with modern observability platforms and standards (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry etc.) * Strong understanding of service reliability metrics, including SLIs, SLOs, and SLAs * Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools (e.g., Terraform, Ansible, etc.) * Familiarity with the AWS ecosystem and cloud-native architectures * A passion for mentoring and developing engineers * Excellent communication skills, with the ability to engage technical and non-technical stakeholders * Experience leading incident response and driving post-incident analysis for continuous improvement What Will Put You Ahead * Hands-on experience with OpenTelemetry for distributed tracing and telemetry collection * Expertise in deploying and managing Grafana, Loki, Tempo, & Mimir * Experience migrating solutions from Splunk, LogicMontior, etc. to modern observability technologies * Experience with Kubernetes deployments and management * Knowledge of synthetic transaction monitoring to proactively detect reliability issues. * Cross-domain expertise (e.g., networking, finance, leadership) that enhances your ability to drive impact * Experience with GitHub Enterprise for CI/CD and infrastructure automation * Multi-cloud experience (Azure, GCP, etc.) * Proven ability to drive organizational change and influence engineering culture At Koch companies, we are entrepreneurs. This means we openly challenge the status quo, find new ways to create value and get rewarded for our individual contributions. Any compensation range provided for a role is an estimate determined by available market data. The actual amount may be higher or lower than the range provided considering each candidate's knowledge, skills, abilities, and geographic location. If you have questions, please speak to your recruiter about the flexibility and detail of our compensation philosophy. Hiring Philosophy All Koch companies value diversity of thought, perspectives, aptitudes, experiences, and backgrounds. We are Military Ready and Second Chance employers. Learn more about our hiring philosophy [1] here. Who We Are As a Koch company, Koch Global Services (KGS) creates solutions spanning technology, human resources, finance, project management and anything else our businesses need. With locations in India, Mexico, Poland and the United States, our employees have the opportunity to make a global impact. At Koch, employees are empowered to do what they do best to make life better. Learn how our [2] business philosophy helps employees unleash their potential while creating value for themselves and the company. Our Benefits Our goal is for each employee, and their families, to live fulfilling and healthy lives. We provide essential resources and support to build and maintain physical, financial, and emotional strength - focusing on overall wellbeing so you can focus on what matters most. Our benefits plan includes - medical, dental, vision, flexible spending and health savings accounts, life insurance, ADD, disability, retirement, paid vacation/time off, educational assistance, and may also include infertility assistance, paid parental leave and adoption assistance. Specific eligibility criteria is set by the applicable Summary Plan Description, policy or guideline and benefits may vary by geographic region. If you have questions on what benefits apply to you, please speak to your recruiter. Additionally, everyone has individual work and personal needs. We seek to enable the best work environment that helps you and the business work together to produce superior results. Equal Opportunities Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status. Except where prohibited by state law, some offers of employment are conditioned upon successfully passing a drug test. This employer uses E-Verify. Please click [3] here for additional information. (For Illinois E-Verify information click [4] here, [5] aqui, or [6] tu). References Visible links 1. https://jobs.kochcareers.com/pages/culture 2. https://www.kochind.com/about/business-philosophy 3. https://www.e-verify.gov/sites/default/files/everify/posters/EVerifyParticipationPoster.pdf 4. https://labor.illinois.gov/content/dam/soi/en/web/idol/employers/posters/e-verify/Right%20to%20Privacy%20in%20the%20Workplace_English.pdf 5. https://labor.illinois.gov/content/dam/soi/en/web/idol/employers/posters/e-verify/Right%20to%20Privacy%20in%20the%20Workplace_Spanish.pdf 6. https://labor.illinois.gov/content/dam/soi/en/web/idol/employers/posters/e-verify/Right%20to%20Privacy%20in%20the%20Workplace_Polish.pdf | |