SRE Consultant (Only Local Candidates)

Hi Professional,

I hope you are doing great.

Our client has an immediate position as a SRE Consultant for a contract position.

Role: SRE Consultant.
Location: Englewood Cliffs, NJ - Onsite and In-Person Interview (3 days per week at the Englewood Cliffs, NJ location).
Contract: 9-12+ months.
Experience: 6+ years.

Job Description:

Key Responsibilities:
-Support and enhance observability (monitoring, logging, alerting) across production systems
-Help maintain SLIs/SLOs for key services
-Participate in evaluating services for production readiness
-Collaborate with development teams to identify reliability risks and improve system architecture
-Contribute to automation of operations, including CI/CD pipelines, incident response, and infrastructure provisioning
-Participate in incident response and on-call rotations for critical services
-Contribute to post-incident analysis and drive reliability improvements
-Partner with security, infrastructure, and product teams to support performance, compliance, and operational excellence

Must-Haves
-Willingness to work onsite and participate in a 24/7 on-call rotation as needed
-5+ years of experience managing and supporting high-traffic digital platforms
-Strong experience with CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation
-Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS and/or Google Cloud Platform
-Solid scripting skills (e.g., Python, Bash, Groovy)
-Hands-on experience with observability and monitoring tools like Datadog, New Relic, AppDynamics, or similar
-Understanding of web, mobile, and OTT architectures
-Experience supporting large scale websites, Mobile and OTT applications, microservices, APIs, and distributed systems
-Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Ansible, Terraform, or Chef
-Familiarity with performance testing tools like JMeter or k6
-Hands on experience with debugging tools like Charles Proxy or Fiddler

Preferred Qualifications
-Experience working with CDNs (e.g., Akamai) and reverse proxies (e.g., NGINX, Varnish)
-Exposure to video streaming platforms and Familiarity with application/infrastructure security controls and best practices
-Certifications in SRE, DevOps, or Performance Engineering are a plus