Strategic Staffing Solutions is currently looking for a Site Reliability Engineer, a W2 contract opportunity with one of our largest clients!
This is a W2 contract opportunity, and the candidates should be willing to work on our W2 ONLY, NO C2C.
Site Reliability Engineer
Location: Irving, TX/Charlotte, NC
Type: W2 Contract - 12-month contract
Work Schedule: Hybrid
Schedule: 3 days in office
Top Skills
- 5-7+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, Platform Engineering, or Cloud Engineering roles
- Hands-on experience with Harness CD
- Strong experience with Kubernetes/OpenShift, Linux, cloud services and deployment best practices
- Solid understanding of CI/CD workflows and software release automation
Platform Ownership & Reliability (SRE):
-Support end-to-end reliability, availability, and performance of the Harness CD platform across non-prod, prod, and BCP environments
-Maintain and report on SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, deployment success rates, and platform health metrics
-Lead incident response, troubleshooting, and RCA for deployment failures, delegate outages, or platform performance issues
-Identify and remediate scaling, performance, and capacity constraints across delegates, pipelines, Kubernetes clusters, and cloud integrations
Automation & Engineering Excellence:
-Develop automation for provisioning, configuration, scaling, upgrades, and maintenance of Harness components
-Build Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform, Ansible, Helm, or equivalent tools
-Automate common operational tasks including delegate lifecycle, cluster onboarding, secret rotation, and pipeline validation
-Reduce manual work by implementing resilient, repeatable, and self-service automation workflows
DevOps & CI/CD Integration:
-Maintain and enhance Harness integrations with GitHub, Jenkins, Azure DevOps, Kubernetes/OpenShift clusters, and cloud providers
-Ensure an efficient developer experience through well-optimized pipelines and reliable deployment mechanisms
-Partner with DevOps teams to optimize orchestration strategies (blue/green, canary, rolling)
-Work with Security teams to embed DevSecOps controls such as policy enforcement, governance pipelines, and security checks
Observability & Monitoring:
-Implement and maintain monitoring, logging, dashboards, and alerting for all Harness components
-Use Splunk, Prometheus, Grafana, AppDynamics, or similar tools to build actionable alerts
-Detect and escalate issues such as delegate saturation, pipeline slowdowns, API failures, and Kubernetes resource constraints
-Support proactive monitoring to reduce mean time to detection and resolution
Modernization & Continuous Improvement:
-Assist with Harness upgrades, hotfixes, patching, and vendor-recommended lifecycle activities
-Contribute to modernization efforts including containerization, cloud-native deployments, and multi-cloud expansion
-Support resiliency improvements such as BCP validation, backup verification, and BCP readiness
-Evaluate new Harness features, modules on platform capabilities for enterprise usage
Technical Leadership:
-Act as a technical SME for Harness platform operations and enhancements
-Provide platform guidance, documentation, architecture details, and runbook development
-Partner with senior engineers to improve standards, automation patterns, and operational excellence
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