Site Reliability Engineer

Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) – AWS & Kubernetes

Location: McLean, VA (Onsite)

Type: Long-term Contract

NOTE : Only W2

• Design and operate highly available, fault-tolerant systems for banking, payments, and trading platforms

• Lead SRE practices: SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, RCA, post-incident remediation, L3/L4 on-call support

• Support Java microservices on Kubernetes (EKS); optimize performance, scalability, and latency

• Strong AWS experience: EC2, EKS, IAM, VPC, RDS, DynamoDB, S3, CloudWatch

• Infrastructure automation using Terraform; scripting with Python, Go, Bash

• Kubernetes networking, storage, and service mesh: Istio, Anthos Service Mesh, Portworx, multi-cluster/federation

• CI/CD with GitLab CI/CD, Jenkins; zero-downtime deployments and DR strategies

• Observability using Prometheus, Datadog, Splunk, Kiali, eBPF for deep system visibility

• Real-time streaming: Kafka, KSQLDB, Kafka Streams, Spark Streaming

• Security & compliance: IAM, secrets management, SOC2, PCI-DSS, SOX, banking-grade controls

• Strong Linux/Unix, Docker, VMware, networking tools (Nginx Controller, Seesaw)

• Experience with high-frequency transaction systems and regulated environments

Certifications Required:

• AWS Solutions Architect – Professional or AWS DevOps Engineer – Professional

• CKA or CKS