lead SRE / DevOps Engineer

Pittsburgh, PA, US • Posted 1 day ago • Updated 36 minutes ago
Contract Independent
Contract W2
75% Travel Required
On-site
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Job Details

Skills

  • Devops Engineer
  • GCP

Summary

Job Title: lead SRE / DevOps Engineer

Location: Pittsburgh, PA (Hybrid )

Duration: Long term

Tax Term:- W2

Job Summary

We are looking for a Lead Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) / DevOps Engineer to design, build, and maintain highly scalable, reliable, and secure infrastructure systems.

This role focuses on automation, observability, incident management, and cloud-native architecture, while also leading engineering best practices across teams.

Key Responsibilities

  • Lead the design and implementation of scalable cloud infrastructure
  • Drive automation (IaC, CI/CD pipelines) to reduce manual effort
  • Own system reliability, uptime, and performance optimization
  • Implement monitoring, alerting, and observability solutions
  • Manage incident response, root cause analysis, and post-mortems
  • Collaborate with development, operations, and security teams
  • Define and track SLIs/SLOs and system health metrics
  • Mentor engineers and promote DevOps/SRE best practices

Required Skills

Core Technologies

  • Cloud platforms: AWS / Azure / Google Cloud Platform
  • Containers & orchestration: Docker, Kubernetes
  • Infrastructure as Code: Terraform, CloudFormation
  • CI/CD tools: Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions

Scripting & DevOps

  • Programming: Python, Bash
  • Automation & configuration: Ansible, Chef, Puppet

Monitoring & Observability

  • Tools: Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack, Dynatrace

Architecture

  • Microservices & distributed systems
  • High-availability and fault-tolerant system design

Experience Requirements

  • 5 10+ years in DevOps / SRE / Infrastructure roles
  • Proven experience with:
    • Large-scale distributed systems
    • Cloud infrastructure automation
    • Incident management & production support
  • Experience working in Agile environments
  • Leadership or mentoring experience preferred

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's/Master's in Computer Science or related field
  • Preferred certifications:
    • AWS / Azure / Google Cloud Platform certifications
    • Kubernetes / Terraform certifications
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  • Dice Id: 90696805
  • Position Id: 2026-5655
  • Posted 1 day ago
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