Senior Site Reliability Engineer – Google Distributed Cloud Edge (Edge SRE)

Our client is seeking a highly skilled Edge Site Reliability Engineer (Edge SRE) to lead the design, automation, and operations of Google Distributed Cloud Edge (GDCE) environments. This role combines deep expertise in cloud-native platforms, networking, and automation with a strong focus on performance, reliability, and scalability at the edge.

Requirements

• Define and implement automation principles for edge compute provisioning and application deployments.
• Design and optimize intelligent caching, traffic steering, and edge routing strategies to reduce latency and maximize performance.
• Collaborate with security teams to implement DDoS protection, bot mitigation, and secure TLS termination policies.
• Develop monitoring, alerting, and observability frameworks (real-time + historical) for latency, traffic, and system health.
• Lead incident response efforts, including root cause analysis and blameless post-mortems.
• Partner with application, network, security, and platform teams to ensure edge systems integrate seamlessly with core infrastructure.
• Drive automation initiatives to reduce operational toil and improve system efficiency.
• Build tools, dashboards, and data pipelines to monitor service performance and identify bottlenecks.
• Establish and champion KPIs that measure reliability, scalability, and overall success of the edge practice.
• Serve as a thought leader in advancing edge operations aligned with business goals.