Site Reliability Engineer - Only W2

Overview

On Site
$60 - $65
Contract - W2
Contract - Independent
Contract - 12 Month(s)

Skills

API
Red Hat Linux
Terraform
Kubernetes
Continuous Integration
Continuous Delivery

Job Details

SRE

Location: Jersey City, NJ

Mode of work : Onsite

Duration: 12 months Contract

Pay Rate:$60 - $65/hr W2

Required Skills & Qualifications:
12+ years of overall industry experience.
6+ years in SRE, DevOps, Platform, or Production Engineering roles.
EKS and/or OpenShift administration certification (CKA, AWS Certified Kubernetes Administrator, Red Hat Certified OpenShift Administrator, or equivalent).
Hands-on with Kubernetes internals, networking, Helm charts, and Operators.
Middleware expertise: Deploying, scaling, and securing Kafka and Redis clusters.
Strong IaC toolchain experience: Helm, ArgoCD, Terraform, Ansible or equivalent tools/platforms
Observability mastery: Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/Splunk or equivalent tools/platforms.
Enforce container security and policy governance using tools like OPA/Gatekeeper, Kyverno, and scanners such as Trivy, Clair, and Snyk, integrated with CI/CD and admission controls for automated compliance.
Implement Kubernetes network segmentation using NetworkPolicy and/or Calico, ensuring secure east-west traffic and minimizing blast radius to protect service reliability.
Programming/scripting proficiency in Python, Shell Scripting, Groovy or similar automation scripting.
Demonstrable experience instrumenting distributed applications (Java, Node.js, Python) with metrics, logs, and tracing libraries.
Proven track record of running large-scale production systems with minimal downtime.
Strong analytical, debugging, communication, and collaboration skills.
Nice-to-Have:
Service mesh experience (Istio, Linkerd).
Chaos engineering foundations (Chaos Monkey, LitmusChaos).
Familiarity with security/compliance in regulated environments.
Experienced with any API Gateway platform (e.g. RedHat 3 Scale API Gateway).

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