Contract, Possible CTH

CTI Consulting; Westlake (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

CTI Consulting seeks a Senior Reliability Engineer to bridge infrastructure automation with reliability engineering. You will help scale production systems, apply observability, and drive automated recovery workflows across cloud and on‑prem storage environments.

The role emphasizes real‑time metrics, incident management, and collaboration with cloud product teams to improve Kubernetes services and platform reliability.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent in a technology related field.
• Production experience running Cloud and on-prem Storage workloads at scale.
• Experience managing and maintaining Kubernetes Clusters on EKS/AKS and RKS.
• Experience building and deploying Docker images including Docker Compose.
• Hands-on experience with Jenkins Core and declarative CI/CD pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Apply reliability engineering standards to build scalable, automated infrastructure.
• Automate recovery workflows and backup/recovery testing across datacenters.
• Develop real-time metrics, observability, and incident response processes.
• Collaborate with cloud service teams to improve Kubernetes service offerings.
• Lead operational processes with incident management and governance in cloud ecosystems.

Skills

Observability tools

Python scripting

Terraform

Kubernetes

CI/CD pipelines

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Jenkins

Docker

OpenStack

AWS

Job description

As Senior Reliability Engineer, you blend deepInfrastructure automation experience and reliability engineering expertise witha passion for delivering results. Our Reliability Engineering group withinEnterprise Infrastructure combines Operations Excellence with the DevelopmentExperience to deliver services at high scale, high availability with resilienceby using automation and Infrastructure Code. We build reliability into ourecosystem by applying standards in Resiliency Engineering, Automation, Observability& Chaos Testing.

Additionally, this role contributes to enterprise backup andrecovery capabilities including automation of recovery workflows, rehousedrecovery into alternate datacenters, and testing of recovery processes.

We are looking for a systems thinking, reliability engineerwho has helped teams scale through production insight, data and backuprecovery, operational automation, developer guidance, real-time metrics,automation, automation, automation.

• Preferredbackground in: Bootstrap, HTML/CSS, Shell Scripting, messaging frameworks(MQ), Service Oriented/Micro-service Architectures, OpenStack, RelationalDatabases (PostgreSQL).
  
• Comfortableworking in both Public and private cloud environments.
  
• Craftingscalable solutions and automation to monitor the health and establishsignals to drive understanding of our Container Platform environments.
  
• Strengtheningoperational processes with support and incident management teamsfor our cloud ecosystem
  
• Workingwith and cloud service provider product teams and driving ongoingreliability improvements in their Kubernetes service offerings.
  
• Anticipating,discovering through ongoing interaction with, and prioritizing client /partner needs to serve as their voice and guide execution of the team.
  

The Expertise You Have

• Bachelor’sDegree or equivalent experience in a technology related field (e.g.Computer Science, Engineering, etc.) required.
  
• Productionexperience running Cloud and on-prem Storage workloads at scale
  
• Experiencemanaging and maintaining Kubernetes Clusters on EKS/AKS and RKS.
  
• Demonstratesa drive for continuous improvement and enjoys tackling complex problems.
  
• Experiencemanaging and interpreting large datasets using query languages andvisualization tools(PowerBI/tableau),
  
• Experiencein software development with Python, NodeJS, or Java with a focus on SDLCand automation
  
• 5 -7years of hands-on experience deploying and/or supporting highlydistributed multi-tiered systems at scale.
  
• Experiencebuilding and deploying Docker images including Docker Compose
  
• Hands-onexperience with Jenkins Core, including authoring and maintainingdeclarative CI/CD pipelines and libraries
  
• Experiencewith distributed version control systems, Git preferred
  
• Experiencecrafting and maintaining logging, monitoring, and alerting capabilitiesusing tools like Datadog and Splunk
  
• Practicalexperience in building cloud hosted and native applications for theenterprise. Maintains a deep understanding of a wide variety of AWS/Azureservices that support reliability, observability, andautomation/orchestration.
  
• Experiencein incident/crisis management and supporting critically importantapplications
  

The Skills You Bring

• Handson experience with one or more observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana,ELK/OpenSearch, OpenTelemetry, Datadog, etc.)
  
• Abilityto automate with various scripting languages (Python, Shell scripting,etc.)
  
• Experiencemanaging systems using infrastructure as code tools (IAM, ARM, Terraform,Chef)
  

Additional Value in Backup & Recovery:

• Advanceenterprise resiliency through improved recovery capabilities.
  
• Reducerecovery time via automation.
  
• Enablerehoused recovery into new datacenters.
  
• Strengthenplatform reliability through data protection design.