Senior AI-Driven Platform SRE - Kubernetes & Cloud Automation

ZipStaff Inc.; Dallas (TX); Hybrid; USD 124,000 - 207,000; Full time

Job summary

ZipStaff Inc. seeks a Senior AI-Enabled Platform / SRE Engineer to advance platform reliability in a hybrid Dallas/Scottsdale setting. The role emphasizes automation, AI-driven operations, and cross-functional collaboration to support a major healthcare organization.

The ideal candidate has 5+ years in Kubernetes and SRE, with strong cloud and automation experience across GCP, Terraform, Helm, and CI/CD, plus hands-on observability and API/microservices reliability.

Qualifications

• The candidate has 5+ years of Kubernetes experience with GKE and Rancher RKE2 across multi-cluster setups.
• 5+ years in Python and Java; Node.js for integrations and automation is a plus.
• Strong SRE background with focus on reliability, SLO/SLI and incident response.
• Hands-on experience with GCP, Terraform, Helm, GitHub, CI/CD pipelines.
• Observability experience: Splunk, Grafana, Datadog, AppDynamics.
• Experience with API/microservices reliability (Apigee X, REST, GraphQL, traffic routing, canary, failover).
• Experience applying LLMs (Gemini, Llama, Mistral, Qwen) to operations and alerting.
• Hybrid work in Dallas, TX or Scottsdale, AZ; US work authorization required.

Responsibilities

• Build automation and tooling using Java, Python, and Node.js to improve efficiency and scale.
• Leverage Generative AI to automate alert analysis, incident triage, and runbooks.
• Implement API and microservices reliability with Apigee X, REST, GraphQL, traffic routing, and failover.
• Manage Kubernetes platforms across GKE and Rancher RKE2, including cluster admin and tuning.
• Support active-active deployments, DR readiness, and multi-datacenter environments.
• Develop observability using Splunk, Grafana, Datadog, and AppDynamics.
• Drive SRE best practices by partnering with cross-functional teams on reliability and security.

Skills

Kubernetes

GKE

Rancher RKE2

Python

Java

Node.js

GCP

Terraform

Helm

GitHub

CI/CD

Splunk

Grafana

Datadog

AppDynamics

Apigee

GraphQL

REST

LLMs

Tools

Apigee X

GitHub Actions

Job description

ZipStaff Inc. seeks a Senior AI-Enabled Platform / SRE Engineer to advance platform reliability in a hybrid Dallas/Scottsdale setting. The role emphasizes automation, AI-driven operations, and cross-functional collaboration to support a major healthcare organization.

The ideal candidate has 5+ years in Kubernetes and SRE, with strong cloud and automation experience across GCP, Terraform, Helm, and CI/CD, plus hands-on observability and API/microservices reliability.