DevOps / SRE Engineer

Job Title: DevOps / SRE Engineer

Location: New Jersey (Hybrid/On-site)

Type of Employment: Full-time

About the Role:

We are seeking an experienced DevOps / Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) with 5–7 years of hands-on experience in cloud infrastructure, automation, CI/CD, and container orchestration. The ideal candidate has strong expertise with Docker, Kubernetes, Jenkins, Maven, and cloud platforms such as AWS or Azure. You will play a critical role in building, scaling, and maintaining highly available, secure, and reliable systems that support enterprise applications.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, Maven, GitHub Actions, or Azure DevOps.
• Build and manage containerized applications using Docker and orchestrate workloads with Kubernetes (EKS, AKS, or self-managed clusters).
• Automate infrastructure provisioning and configuration using IaC tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, or ARM templates.
• Manage cloud infrastructure on AWS or Azure, including compute, networking, storage, security, and monitoring services.
• Ensure high availability, reliability, scalability, and resilience of production systems following SRE principles.
• Implement monitoring, log management, and alerting using tools like Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, CloudWatch, or Azure Monitor.
• Collaborate with development teams to improve deployment processes and application performance.
• Troubleshoot infrastructure, networking, and build pipeline issues across the stack.
• Support on-call rotation and incident response, ensuring quick resolution and RCA documentation.
• Drive automation across operations to reduce manual processes and operational toil.

Required Qualifications:

• 5–7 years of hands-on experience as a DevOps Engineer, SRE, Cloud Engineer, or similar role.
• Strong experience with Docker and containerization best practices.
• Hands-on expertise with Kubernetes (EKS, AKS, GKE, or on-prem k8s).
• Proven experience building CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, Maven, and Git-based workflows.
• Proficiency with AWS or Azure cloud environments and cloud-native services.
• Strong background in Linux system administration, security, networking fundamentals, and shell scripting.
• Experience implementing IaC using Terraform, CloudFormation, or ARM/Bicep.
• Familiarity with logging/monitoring tools: Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Splunk, CloudWatch, Azure Monitor, etc.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and performance tuning skills.
• Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments.

Preferred Skills:

• Experience with service mesh technologies (Istio, Linkerd).
• Knowledge of Kubernetes Operators, Helm charts, and GitOps tools (ArgoCD, Flux).
• Familiarity with secrets management tools such as HashiCorp Vault or AWS Secrets Manager.
• Experience with incident management and SRE best practices (SLIs, SLOs, error budgets).
• Knowledge of security best practices for CI/CD, cloud, and containerized environments.

Education:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent practical experience)