Lead Site Reliability Engineer

job summary:

Enterprise Healthcare client has an immediate opening for a highly motivated Lead Site Reliability Engineer to join their dynamic and growing team. All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply!

location: Telecommute

job type: Contract

salary: $71.25 - 81.25 per hour

work hours: 8am to 5pm

education: Bachelors



responsibilities:

- What is the purpose of this team?

- Describe the surrounding team (team culture, work environment, etc.) & key projects.

- Do you have any additional upcoming hiring needs or is this request part of a larger hiring initiative? I am forming new teams, focusing on Adobe Stack to enhance the scalability of the Adobe platform. This initiative aims to align with a unified technology strategy that supports evolving business needs.

Typical Day in the Role

- Walk me through the day-to-day responsibilities and a description of the project (Outside of the Workday JD).

- What are the performance expectations/metrics?

- What makes this role unique? Lead SRE to drive reliability, scalability, observability (monitoring & alerts) and performance across the production platforms. Role will own the SLO/SLI strategy, modernize observability and incident response, and partner with application teams to deliver resilient systems. This role blends hands-on engineering with technical leadership-guiding standards for operational excellence.

Key Responsibilities:

Reliability Strategy & Ownership

- Define and govern SLOs/SLIs/Error Budgets for critical services; enforce guardrails and drive reliability roadmaps.

- Lead performance tuning collaboration with application teams to ensure high availability and low latency.

- Define and own infrastructure tuning to ensure scalability leading to high availability.

- Lead Metrics and automation driven Reliability.

- Dedug systems across layers.

Production Engineering

- Architect and evolve CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code (IaC- Terraform)

- Design and build serverless APIs (Lambda, API Gateway, SQS, SNS, DynamoDB, etc.).

- Build scalable Kubernetes/container platforms, service meshes, and developer self service workflows.

Observability & Operations

- Mature observability (metrics, logs, traces, RUM, synthetic checks) and AIOps/alert hygiene to reduce noise and MTTR.

- Produce actionable dashboards at team and exec levels.

- Lead incident management (on-call rotations, triage, comms, postmortems).

Security & Compliance

- Partner with Security to embed shift-left practices, secure defaults, and policy-as-code (RBAC, secrets).Ensure compliance with SOC2 / HIPAA / PCI (as applicable) in production operations.

Leadership & Enablement

- Mentor partner teams; establish runbooks, standards, and golden paths.

- Influence architecture decisions, participate in design reviews, and evangelize reliability best practices.

Cost & Efficiency

- Optimize cloud spend via right sizing, autoscaling, workload placement, and utilization insights.

qualifications:

Bachelors

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Pay offered to a successful candidate will be based on several factors including the candidate's education, work experience, work location, specific job duties, certifications, etc. In addition, Randstad Digital offers a comprehensive benefits package, including: medical, prescription, dental, vision, AD&D, and life insurance offerings, short-term disability, and a 401K plan (all benefits are based on eligibility).

This posting is open for thirty (30) days.


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