Senior Site Reliability Engineer / Remote

Motion Recruitment; Herndon (VA); Remote; USD 83,000 - 152,000; Full time

Job summary

Motion Recruitment is hiring a Site Reliability Engineer for a U.S.-based provider of secure enterprise cloud technology. This contract role is fully remote within the United States, with East Coast hours preferred.

You will maintain a large AWS environment, automate with Terraform, Jenkins, Ansible, and Kubernetes, and contribute to self-healing systems to ensure service reliability. Join a senior, tightly focused SRE team that values automation, security, and real-time reliability.

Qualifications

• Hands-on SRE/DevOps experience at scale in AWS.
• Strong Terraform skills for IaC.
• Experience with Jenkins and Ansible.
• Kubernetes concepts; deep admin not required.
• Comfort with Linux and production troubleshooting.
• Willingness to participate in a shared on-call rotation.
• U.S. citizenship required.

Responsibilities

• Maintain AWS infrastructure and Terraform configurations.
• Manage CI/CD pipelines and configuration management with Jenkins and Ansible.
• Operate and improve Kubernetes-based systems.
• Support SAP HANA and analytics workload reliability.

Skills

AWS SRE experience

Terraform

Jenkins

Ansible

Kubernetes

Linux

On-call experience

U.S. citizenship

Tools

Terraform

Jenkins

Ansible

Kubernetes

AWS

Linux

Job description

A U.S.-based provider of secure enterprise cloud technology for national security agencies, defense, and regulated industry customers, is hiring a Site Reliability Engineer on a contract basis. This role is fully remote within the U.S., with East Coast hours preferred. You will keep a large AWS environment healthy and automated using Terraform, Jenkins, Ansible, and Kubernetes.

This is a chance to work inside a security model most cloud teams never get to see. You will join a compact, senior SRE team supporting a cloud analytics platform, where infrastructure ownership is real and not split across a dozen layers. They want someone who loves automation, builds self-healing systems so problems fix themselves, and is excited to experiment with AI agents and AI-assisted tooling. Over time the team will extend support into a neighboring HCM environment, so there is natural room for your scope to grow.

Contract Duration: 6 – 12 Months

Required Skills & Experience

• Hands-on SRE, DevOps, or cloud infrastructure experience at scale in AWS
• Strong Terraform skills, since infrastructure as code is central to how this team works
• Working experience with Jenkins and Ansible
• Solid grasp of Kubernetes concepts (deep administration experience is not required)
• Comfort with Linux systems and troubleshooting production issues
• Willingness to participate in a shared on-call rotation
• U.S. citizenship

Desired Skills & Experience

• Experience building AI agents or agentic automation
• Familiarity with Windows-based enterprise environments
• Background supporting secure, regulated, or compliance-heavy environments

What You Will Be Doing

Tech Breakdown

• 30% AWS Infrastructure (several hundred EC2 instances) & Terraform
• 30% CI/CD & Configuration Management (Jenkins, Ansible)
• 30% Kubernetes (managed container service)
• 10% SAP HANA & Analytics Workload Reliability