Cloud Engineer (DevOps/Site Reliability Engineer)

Overview

Hybrid
$55 - $60
Accepts corp to corp applications
Contract - Independent
Contract - W2
Contract - 12 Month(s)
Able to Provide Sponsorship

Skills

Amazon EC2
Amazon RDS
Amazon S3
Amazon Web Services
Cloud Computing
Continuous Delivery
Continuous Integration
DevOps
Dynatrace
Incident Management
Kubernetes
Shell
Scripting
Virtual Private Cloud
Linux
Datadog

Job Details

JOB DESCRIPTION:
We are looking for a Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) with deep experience in AWS infrastructure, automation, observability, and production support. As an SRE, you will ensure our cloud-native systems are resilient, scalable, and efficient, driving reliability through code, not just processes.

Key Responsibilities:
Design, implement, and maintain scalable, secure, and highly available infrastructure on AWS
Develop and improve CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform, Harness
Own and implement monitoring, alerting, logging, and distributed tracing with tools like Dynatrace/ Datadog
Troubleshoot production incidents, conduct blameless postmortems, and improve incident response processes
Optimize systems for cost, performance, and reliability
Drive chaos engineering and resilience testing
Collaborate with development teams to embed SRE practices like SLAs, SLOs, and error budgets
Mentor junior SREs and promote DevOps/SRE culture across the organization

Basic Qualifications:
Strong experience in SRE, DevOps, or Cloud Engineering
Expertise in AWS core services (EC2, ECS/EKS, Lambda, S3, VPC, RDS, IAM, CloudFront, etc.)
Hands-on experience with Terraform, Ansible, or other IaC tools
Strong scripting/coding skills (Python, Go, Shell, etc.)
Experience with Kubernetes, containerization, and orchestration
Deep knowledge of Linux systems and networking

Preferred Qualifications:
Experience with Service Meshes (e.g., Istio, App Mesh)
Familiarity with AWS Well-Architected Framework
Experience building self-healing systems and automated remediation
Background in security, compliance, or multi-account/multi-region AWS architectures

Certifications (Optional/Preferred):
AWS Certified DevOps Engineer Professional
AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional

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