Senior DevOps / SRE / Cloud Engineering Lead

Title: Senior DevOps / SRE / Cloud Engineering Lead

Location: San Jose (Remote)

Duration: C2C

Role Summary

Lead the design, automation, and reliability of large-scale cloud-native systems across multi-cloud environments. Drive platform stability, CI/CD efficiency, and operational excellence while mentoring engineering teams.

Key Responsibilities

• Architect and manage multi-cloud, multi-region Kubernetes platforms to improve uptime and reduce outages.
• Build and scale AWS infrastructure using Terraform, Puppet, and automation best practices.
• Implement GitOps-driven CI/CD with ArgoCD, Argo Workflows, and Helm to accelerate deployments.
• Establish robust observability using Prometheus, Grafana, AlertManager, Splunk, ELK, improving MTTR and alerting quality.
• Use Infrastructure as Code (IaC) to automate Databricks and cloud resource provisioning, eliminating configuration drift.
• Collaborate with product teams to define SLOs and drive reliability improvements.
• Mentor engineers on DevOps, automation, and SRE principles.

Technical Skills

• Cloud: AWS, Azure, OpenStack, OpenShift
• Containers: Kubernetes, Docker
• IaC & Automation: Terraform, Vault, Puppet, Ansible, Chef
• Monitoring / Observability: Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, ELK, Nagios, Sensu, New Relic, Catchpoint
• CI/CD: ArgoCD, Argo Workflows, Helm, Git, Jenkins, Gerrit, Bitbucket
• Data: MongoDB, Kafka, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Snowflake, Couchbase
• Big Data: Spark, Hadoop, Hive
• Programming: Python, Go, Bash, Java (Spring Boot), Spark, JUnit
• Ops & Security: PagerDuty, ServiceNow, Security Hardening
• Certifications: CCNA, RHCE, CKA