Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Position: Engineering | Level 4 (USD)
Location: Alpharetta, Georgia
Duration: Contract
Job ID: 171185

Job Overview:
We are seeking an experienced Senior Site Reliability Engineer to join our team and play a critical role in ensuring the reliability, scalability, and performance of our cloud infrastructure. As a technical leader, you will combine deep operational expertise with strong automation skills to build and maintain highly available systems. Your expertise in Kubernetes will drive our container orchestration strategy and establish you as a technical authority for our platform teams.

Responsibilities:

• Design, deploy, and manage cloud infrastructure across AWS and Azure using Terraform and infrastructure-as-code principles.
• Architect, deploy, and maintain production-grade Kubernetes clusters with a focus on reliability, security, and performance.
• Serve as the subject matter expert on Kubernetes, providing guidance and best practices to engineering teams.
• Build and maintain automated provisioning pipelines to ensure consistent, repeatable deployments.
• Implement and maintain HashiCorp Vault on AWS for secrets management and security, including Vault integration with Kubernetes.
• Design and implement automated High Availability and Disaster Recovery (HA/DR) capabilities through CI/CD pipelines.
• Optimize cloud resources and Kubernetes workloads for performance, cost efficiency, and reliability.
• Architect and implement comprehensive observability solutions using Datadog for cloud-native applications and Kubernetes infrastructure.
• Build monitoring, logging, and alerting frameworks for containerized workloads that provide actionable insights into system health.
• Design, build, and maintain robust CI/CD pipelines that enable rapid, safe deployments to Kubernetes.
• Identify, assess, and remediate security vulnerabilities in infrastructure, applications, and Kubernetes clusters.
• Participate in 24/7 on-call rotation to respond to critical production incidents and serve as Incident Commander during major outages.
• Mentor junior SREs and promote SRE best practices across the organization.

Qualifications:

• 5+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, or similar roles.
• Expert-level knowledge of Kubernetes, including architecture, operations, and troubleshooting in production environments.
• Strong hands-on experience with AWS and Azure cloud platforms.
• Proficiency in Terraform for infrastructure automation and management.
• Expert-level knowledge of Datadog for monitoring, logging, and observability.
• Experience with HashiCorp Vault, including deployment and management on AWS and Kubernetes integration.
• Deep understanding of CI/CD pipelines, including design, implementation, and optimization for containerized workloads.
• Strong programming skills in Python for automation, tooling, and analysis.
• Proven experience building observability solutions for distributed cloud applications.
• Demonstrated experience participating in on-call rotations and responding to production incidents.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to work across multiple teams and explain complex Kubernetes concepts.

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Pay Range: $60 - $80.33/hour on W2

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