What SRE contributes to Cardinal Health

The DevOps team at Sonexus (part of Cardinal Health) manages a platform that orchestrates releases across numerous applications. This platform is being redesigned to support modern deployment strategies like canary, blue-green, containers, microservices, public cloud alongside some more traditional distributed systems and databases.

The Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Team is an integrated part of the DevOps team. The DevOps team is responsible for the availability, latency, performance, efficiency, change management, monitoring, emergency response, and capacity planning of Sonexus applications. SREs are expected to use a software development mindset to solve operational and platform challenges through automation.

As we expand our continuous delivery portfolio, we are looking to add an SRE to the team. We are looking for a hands-on engineer with experience running platforms leveraging industry observability and automation platforms. Someone who brings fresh ideas, demonstrates a unique and informed viewpoint, and enjoys collaborating with a cross-functional team to develop real-world solutions and positive user experiences at every interaction.

As a Site Reliability Engineer at Sonexus, you’ll be part of efforts to ensure uptime, scalability, and incident resilience across Sonexus platforms. You’ll develop observability systems, engineer intelligent automation, and champion collaboration across teams. This role supports a shift toward predictive, AI-driven operations while maintaining industry-standard service levels.

Responsibilities

Collaborate across engineering, dev, and infrastructure teams to solve complex reliability challenges using automation and observabilityMaintain and evolve cloud-native Sonexus platforms (Azure preferred, GCP optional), optimizing performance and uptimeLead and participate in high-impact incident resolution (P1/P2) using playbooks, logs, and anomaly detection tools (Splunk, Dynatrace)Develop and tune alerting strategies based on SLIs/SLOs, error budgets, and historical incident data to minimize noiseBuild and enhance dashboards for latency, error rates, throughput, and system healthAutomate runbooks and response workflows using Python or infrastructure-as-code tools (Terraform preferred)Conduct root cause analysis with action tracking via Azure DevOps, enabling blameless postmortemsDrive integration of observability best practices in application code—supporting feature telemetry and end-to-end traceabilitySet and refine SLIs/SLOs based on evolving system behavior and user experienceContribute to platform risk management and compliance activitiesProvide support for SRE-aligned change and release processes across CI/CD pipelinesAssist in capacity planning, estimation, and system reliability strategyPerform other duties as needed or assigned.

Qualifications

Bachelors in computer science or related field; equivalent experience accepted preferred3+ years in SRE or platform operations role supporting cloud-native enterprise applications preferredExperience in web application debugging and optimization (HTML, JS, Angular, React, .NET)Hands-on with observability platforms: Splunk, Dynatrace, Azure MonitorProficiency with automation tooling (e.g. Terraform) and Python scriptingFamiliarity with OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, and distributed tracing conceptsExperience driving performance improvements using SLO metrics and load testing toolsFamiliarity with API management tools (e.g. Azure API Management, Apigee)Knowledge of healthcare platform constraints or compliance frameworks preferred

Anticipated salary range: $79,700 - $119,490

Bonus eligible: No

Benefits: Cardinal Health offers a wide variety of benefits and programs to support health and well-being.

Medical, dental and vision coveragePaid time off planHealth savings account (HSA)401k savings planAccess to wages before pay day with myFlexPayFlexible spending accounts (FSAs)Short- and long-term disability coverageWork-Life resourcesPaid parental leaveHealthy lifestyle programs

Application window anticipated to close: 10/08/2025 *if interested in opportunity, please submit application as soon as possible.

The salary range listed is an estimate. Pay at Cardinal Health is determined by multiple factors including, but not limited to, a candidate’s geographical location, relevant education, experience and skills and an evaluation of internal pay equity.

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Candidates who are back-to-work, people with disabilities, without a college degree, and Veterans are encouraged to apply.

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