Site Reliability Engineer CV Example
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Certifications
Google Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer
Google
2023-06-01
Linux Foundation Site Reliability Engineering Certificate
Linux
2022-06-01
Languages
English (Native)
Grace Murphy
Site Reliability Engineer
8 years of experience supporting highly available cloud services and improving operational reliability through automation.
Experience
Senior Site Reliability Engineer
Uptime Foundry, Full-time
2020-03-01 – Present
Seattle, WA, US
Reliability engineering and incident management — SLOs/error budgets, auto-remediation playbooks, and incident command.
- Led reliability engineering and incident management for critical systems
- Defined service-level objectives and error budgets for 25+ microservices, improving reliability prioritization during planning cycles.
- Built auto-remediation playbooks triggered by Prometheus alerts to resolve common saturation incidents without pager escalation.
- Reduced p1 incident duration by introducing structured incident command and timeline capture tooling.
Site Reliability Engineer
Pulse Transit Cloud, Full-time
2018-02-01 – 2020-02-01
Toronto, ON, CA
High availability and observability — multi-region failover drills, Kubernetes autoscaling tuning, and RED/USE metrics.
- Maintained high availability and observability for customer-facing APIs
- Implemented multi-region failover drills and chaos scenarios to validate dependency timeouts and fallback logic.
- Tuned Kubernetes HPA and VPA settings based on workload profiles, reducing CPU throttling events during spikes.
- Instrumented RED and USE metrics with dashboard templates adopted by all product teams.
Junior Site Reliability Engineer
Granite SignalOps, Full-time
2016-01-01 – 2018-01-01
Austin, TX, US
On-call operations and reliability automation — synthetic checks, post-incident verification, and log-indexing improvements.
- Supported on-call operations and reliability automation tasks
- Created synthetic checks for critical customer journeys and integrated them with pager duty routing rules.
- Wrote post-incident follow-up scripts to verify remediation tasks and stale alert cleanup.
- Improved log indexing strategy in OpenSearch, lowering investigation time for cross-service incidents.
Education
Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science
North Carolina State University
2014-09-01 – 2018-06-01
Bachelor's-level training in computer engineering at North Carolina State University. Completed coursework in Linux, Kubernetes, Prometheus, capstone projects, and collaborative assignments that prepared for professional roles.
CV writing guide
- Demonstrate mature incident response and learning culture practices.
- Show measurable reliability outcomes tied to SLOs and MTTR.
- Include examples of automation that removes repetitive operational toil.
- Google Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer
- Linux Foundation Site Reliability Engineering Certificate
- Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)