Senior Site Reliability Engineer / Remote

Kelly Services; Herndon (VA); Remote; USD 103,000 - 117,000; Full time

Job summary

Motion Recruitment Partners (MRP) is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer on a contract basis to maintain a large AWS environment with Terraform, Jenkins, Ansible, and Kubernetes. The role is fully remote within the U.S., with East Coast hours preferred.

You will join a senior SRE team behind a cloud analytics platform, building self-healing systems and automations, and potentially expanding into adjacent environments over time.

Qualifications

• HANDS-ON SRE/DevOps experience at scale in AWS.
• Proficient with Terraform as IaC for infrastructure.
• Experience with CI/CD tools like Jenkins and configuration management with Ansible.

Responsibilities

• Manage and support a large AWS environment in production.
• Maintain and automate infrastructure to deliver reliability.
• Participate in on-call rotations and incident response.

Skills

Hands-on SRE/DevOps experience

AWS experience at scale

Linux troubleshooting

Willingness to on-call

US citizenship

Tools

Terraform

Jenkins

Ansible

Kubernetes

Job description

$75 - $85

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

Motion Recruitment Partners (MRP) is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All applicants must be currently authorized to work on a full-time basis in the country for which they are applying, and no sponsorship is currently available. Employment is subject to the successful completion of a pre-employment screening. Accommodation will be provided in all parts of the hiring process as required under MRP’s Employment Accommodation policy. Applicants need to make their needs known in advance.