Platform Engineer SRE - TX, NC, AZ

Job#: 3026106

Job Description:
Client:Financial Services
Team: Platform Engineering / SRE (Harness CD)
Job Title: Systems Operations Engineer 4 - Harness CD / SRE
Location: Zone 2 - Approved Sites:

• USA-TX-IRVING - 401 Las Colinas Blvd W, Bldg A-111432
• 2222 W Rose Garden Ln, Phoenix, AZ 85027
• Charlotte, NC 28202

Contract Length: 12 Months (Conversion to FTE after 12 months)
Work Model: Hybrid (RTO 3 Days Onsite)
Pay Rate: $61 - $65
Top Requirements:

5-7+ years in DevOps / SRE / Platform / Cloud Engineering

Hands-on experience with Harness CD (enterprise operations and integrations)

Strong experience with Kubernetes / OpenShift, Linux, cloud services, and deployment best practices

Solid understanding of CI/CD workflows and release automation

SRE concepts: SLIs/SLOs, error budgets, incident response, operational maturity improvements

Automation & IaC: Python/Bash/PowerShell and Terraform, Ansible, Helm

Observability: Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk/ELK, AppDynamics (dashboards, alerts, RCA)

Plusses (Preferred Qualifications):

• Operating CD platforms at enterprise scale (hundreds of teams, multi-region)
• Experience in Azure and/or Google Cloud Platform, hybrid cloud
• DevSecOps controls, policy enforcement, governance pipelines
• Experience with platform upgrades, migrations, and modernization projects
• Proven contributions to BCP validation, backup verification, resiliency improvements

Job Summary:

The Systems Operations Engineer 4 serves as the Harness CD platform SRE/Owner, responsible for end-to-end reliability, performance, and modernization across non-prod, prod, and BCP environments. The role drives automation-first operations, implements observability and alerting, integrates with CI/CD ecosystems (GitHub, Jenkins, Azure DevOps, Kubernetes/OpenShift, cloud providers), and partners with Security to embed DevSecOps controls. This engineer leads incidents and RCAs, manages SLIs/SLOs/error budgets, and continuously improves scalability, resiliency, and developer experience through hardened pipelines and self-service workflows.
Day-to-Day Responsibilities:

Platform Ownership & Reliability (SRE)

Operate the Harness CD platform across non-prod, prod, and BCP; maintain SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, success rates, platform health

Lead incident response, troubleshooting, and RCA for deployment failures, delegate outages, or performance issues

Identify/remediate scaling & capacity constraints across delegates, pipelines, clusters, and cloud integrations

Automation & Engineering Excellence

Build automation for provisioning, configuration, scaling, upgrades, and maintenance of Harness components

Implement IaC using Terraform, Ansible, Helm; automate delegate lifecycle, cluster onboarding, secret rotation, and pipeline validation

Reduce toil via resilient, repeatable, self-service workflows

DevOps & CI/CD Integration

Maintain/enhance integrations with GitHub, Jenkins, Azure DevOps, Kubernetes/OpenShift, and cloud providers

Optimize deployment strategies (blue/green, canary, rolling) for speed and reliability

Embed DevSecOps controls (policy enforcement, governance pipelines, security checks)

Observability & Monitoring

Implement monitoring, logging, dashboards, and alerting for all Harness components

Use Splunk, Prometheus, Grafana, AppDynamics to deliver actionable alerts and reduce MTTD/MTTR

Detect/escalate issues (delegate saturation, pipeline slowdowns, API failures, K8s resource constraints)

Modernization & Continuous Improvement

Execute upgrades, hotfixes, patching; evaluate new Harness features & modules

Drive containerization, cloud-native deployments, multi-cloud expansion

Support BCP readiness and resiliency validation

Technical Leadership

Act as SME for Harness platform operations; produce architecture docs, runbooks, and standards

Mentor and partner with senior engineers to improve patterns and operational excellence
Required Qualifications:

• 5-7+ years in DevOps, SRE, Platform, or Cloud Engineering
• Hands-on Harness CD experience
• Strong Kubernetes/OpenShift, Linux, cloud services, deployment best practices
• Solid grasp of CI/CD workflows and release automation
• SRE practices (SLIs/SLOs, error budgets) and operational maturity
• Automation/scripting (Python, Bash, PowerShell)
• IaC with Terraform, Ansible, Helm (or equivalent)
• Observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk/ELK, AppDynamics) and full-stack troubleshooting

Job Expectations:

• Hybrid work schedule (3 days onsite at an approved location)
• On-call support as needed; flexibility for ad-hoc shifts
• 12-month contract with conversion to FTE target after 12 months

Skills Matrix (optional to paste into Beeline/TAP):

• Harness CD - platform administration, pipelines, delegates, integrations
• Kubernetes / OpenShift - cluster ops, workloads, scaling, networking
• CI/CD - GitHub, Jenkins, Azure DevOps; strategies: blue/green, canary, rolling
• IaC & Automation - Terraform, Ansible, Helm; Python/Bash/PowerShell
• Observability - Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk/ELK, AppDynamics; SLO dashboards
• SRE - SLIs/SLOs, error budgets, incident response, RCA, operational maturity
• Security/DevSecOps - policy enforcement, governance pipelines, secrets mgmt
• BCP/Resiliency - backups, DR, failover testing, capacity planning

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