A Staff Site Reliability Engineer ASCENDING Fairfax, Virginia, US

Artha Nexgen; Fairfax (VA); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Artha Nexgen is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to join our Cloud Infrastructure team. You will maintain, enhance, and operate our cloud platform that supports the entire organization, with emphasis on reliability and scalability across AWS and Azure.

The ideal candidate has 8+ years in automated cloud infrastructure, strong Terraform experience, networking knowledge, and familiarity with CI/CD tooling; FedRAMP experience is a plus; remote within the US.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of automated cloud infrastructure experience.
• Strong Terraform experience in multi-cloud environments (AWS/Azure).
• Hands-on familiarity with networking and IaC practices.

Responsibilities

• Build, maintain, and operate IaaS and PaaS infrastructure in AWS and Azure clouds.
• Engineer deployment automation and CI/CD tooling to reduce manual work.
• Own reliability of non-prod and production environments and coordinate restores.
• Utilize Kubernetes for container orchestration, ensuring scalability and availability.
• Implement monitoring, logging, and alerting to ensure system performance.
• Mentor junior team members and participate in on-call rotations.

Skills

Cloud engineering

DevOps

Networking

SRE

Terraform

CI/CD

Kubernetes

Git/GitLab

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in CS/Software Eng

Tools

AWS

Azure

Terraform

Kubernetes

Job description

RequiredU.S.Citizenship/Noclearanceneeded/100%remotewithintheUS

• Type: Long-termcontract(3+years)

Our client, a premier national healthcare provider, is currently looking for a Senior SRE on their Cloud Infrastructure team. You will be helping to maintain, add new features and operate our client's cloud platform that supports the entire organization.

The ideal candidate will have strong experience in AWS and Azure, and most of those associated services. The client is looking for strong Terraform experience and knowledge of networking within an AWS or Azure environment. Our client is looking for someone who truly has expertise in cloud engineering and building cloud platforms.

Terraform is heavily used for IaC and that experience is a must have. Since our client is multi- cloud and this team also supports an Azure platform. Any type of a Computer Science or Object Oriented Coding background is also a preferred skill to have.

Job Responsibilities

• Build, maintain, and operate IaaS and PaaS infrastructure in AWS and Azure commercial and government clouds
• Engineer and maintain deployment automation/tooling (CI/CD pipelines, scripting, deployment platforms), converting repeat manual work into durable automation.
• Own reliability of non-prod and production delivery environments: keep release environments healthy, respond to operational issues impacting delivery, and coordinate environment refresh/restore activities
• Utilize Kubernetes for container orchestration and management, ensuring scalability,reliability, and high availability of the system.
• Implement robust monitoring, logging, and alerting mechanisms to ensure systemperformance and availability.
• Mentor and provide technical guidance to junior team members, fostering a culture ofcontinuous learning and professional growth.
• Support software and/or cloud-infrastructure in an on-call rotation basis when needed.

Qualifications

• Strong experience working within the AWS or Azure cloud as a cloud engineer or DevOps engineer.
• FedRAMP experience is a big plus.
• Must have hands-on Terraform skills since it is a heavy Terraform environment. Strongexperience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform).
• Expert knowledge of deploying Production grade applications in AWS and Azure
• Familiarity with IDEs and Source Control tools like Github or Gitlab.
• Solid awareness of networking and internet protocols.
• 8+ years of experience in automated cloud infrastructure.
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field
• 8+ years of experience with cloud computing platforms with Azure including experience with serverless architectures, containers, and orchestration

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