Senior Cloud Reliability Engineer - AWS SRE

SOFT's client located in Richmond, VA ( Hybrid ) is looking for a Senior Cloud Reliability Engineer - AWS SRE for a long term contract assignment.

Qualifications:
Senior Cloud Reliability Engineer

5-7 years of extensive experience in end-to-end enterprise software development life cycle experience including maintenance and support
3+ years of experience in Observability and SRE practices.
3+ years of experience in Cloud Networking domain (experience with Routers, Firewalls, Load Balancers, etc)
Bachelor s degree in computer science, Information Systems, or equivalent background or equivalent experience.
Extensive knowledge and experience of working in AWS environments
Knowledge of Azure is a plus
Strong Software development experience in Cloud with one of the languages: Python or GoLang
Experience with observability, open telemetry, and in one or more of the tools like Dynatrace, Prometheus, Grafana, AWS CloudWatch, AWS Canary, AWS event bridge
Expertise in automating the TOIL
Working experience in Agile and Scaled Agile environments
Experience supporting infrastructure for large multi-services applications
Knowledge of secure coding standards and banking environment is a plus.
Desirable to have AWS Certifications (AWS Certified Solutions Architect and AWS Certified SysOps Administrator)

Responsibilities:
As the Senior Cloud Reliability Engineer in the SRE Service, they will be accountable for implementing reliability practices with software as means for the cloud foundational product line in the client.
The SRE Service is part of the Cloud Solutions & Services department and has overall responsibility for reliability of the numerous cloud foundational environments in the client.

What Will Be Expected of You
Works part of cloud foundational platform squads focused on Cloud Networks to demonstrate and champion site reliability culture and practices and exerts technical influence throughout your team
Develops and maintains automations, scripts and code associated with automating manual work, improving reliability and stability of the cloud platform
Develops, integrates and maintains synthetics (canaries) code to establish health of the services
Leads SLIs, SLOs, Error budgets efforts in collaboration with product team to instrument, visualize for proactively managing the stability of cloud platforms
Implement observability (logs, metrics, traces) and monitoring for Cloud Network components like VPC, VPN Tunnels, GWLB, and Transit Gateway using tools like SevOne, Grafana, Dynatrace, AWS CloudWatch and AWS Canary
Respond to and resolve incidents in a timely manner
Use Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools like Terraform to manage AWS resources.
Develops reusable artifacts and software utilities to industrialize SRE practices across client locations.
Other duties assigned as necessary

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***INDEPENDENT CONSULTANTS ONLY! NO THIRD PARTIES/NO SUB CONTRACTORS***