Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) - HPC & Data Platforms

Randstad Digital Americas; Richmond (VA); Remote; USD 110,000 - 152,000; Part time

Job summary

Randstad Digital is seeking a Senior Cloud Platform Engineer for a 1-year contract to modernize AWS and Kubernetes data platforms. The role focuses on production support, HPC clusters, and observability with Grafana and CloudWatch.

Requires 5+ years in AWS/EKS and 3+ years in HPC environments, with responsibilities including incident response, root-cause analysis, monitoring pipelines, on-call support, and mentoring.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of production Kubernetes experience, preferably EKS.
• 3+ years in HPC environments with workloads and schedulers.
• Experience building monitoring pipelines using Grafana and CloudWatch.

Responsibilities

• Support Kubernetes in production environments and handle on-call rotations.
• Manage HPC clusters, job schedulers, and parallel computing workflows.
• Build and maintain monitoring dashboards using Grafana and CloudWatch; incident management and root-cause analysis.

Skills

Kubernetes

AWS

Grafana

CloudWatch

HPC

On-call support

Mentoring

Jira

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

EKS

S3

EC2

IAM

VPC

Databricks

Docker

Container Insights

Job description

Job Summary

Seeking Senior Cloud Platform Engineers for 1-year contracts modernizing AWS and Kubernetes data platforms. Key focus: production support, HPC clusters, and observability via Grafana and CloudWatch. Requires 5+ years with AWS/EKS and 3+ years in HPC environments. Responsibilities include incident response, root-cause analysis, building monitoring pipelines, on-call support, and team mentoring.

Job Summary

Seeking Senior Cloud Platform Engineers for 1-year contracts modernizing AWS and Kubernetes data platforms. Key focus: production support, HPC clusters, and observability via Grafana and CloudWatch. Requires 5+ years with AWS/EKS and 3+ years in HPC environments. Responsibilities include incident response, root-cause analysis, building monitoring pipelines, on-call support, and team mentoring.

location: Telecommute

job type: Solutions

salary: $80 - 110 per hour

work hours: 9am to 5pm

education: Bachelors

Responsibilities

• Job Requirements - Strong hands-on experience supporting Kubernetes in production environments.
• Experience supporting HPC clusters, job schedulers, and parallel computing frameworks.
• Working knowledge of AWS services, including EKS, EC2, S3, IAM, VPC, and CloudWatch.
• Experience with Grafana, CloudWatch dashboards, Container Insights, alerting, and observability pipelines.
• Working knowledge of Databricks for data pipeline monitoring and troubleshooting.
• Strong production incident management, troubleshooting, and root cause analysis skills.
• Experience with Docker and container runtime troubleshooting.
• Understanding of security, access controls, logging, data retention, and compliance requirements.
• Strong documentation, communication, training, and mentoring skills.
• Experience With Agile/SAFe, Jira, Requirements Engineering, And Stakeholder Engagement.
• Ability to work independently and collaborate across distributed, cross-functional teams.
• Willingness to participate in periodic weekday on-call rotations.

Desired Skills & Experience

• Experience with AWS EKS specifically, as opposed to other Kubernetes distributions.
• Experience integrating HPC workloads into Kubernetes environments.
• Experience optimizing AWS costs and performance for compute-intensive workloads.
• Working knowledge of Databricks data pipeline health, job monitoring, and troubleshooting.
• Experience with distributed and virtual teams in large enterprise environments.
• Familiarity with financial services or other regulated environments.

Qualifications

USC only

• Required Skills - Kubernetes & AWS: 5+ years of production Kubernetes experience, preferably EKS, with hands-on AWS infrastructure support.
• High-Performance Computing (HPC): 3+ years supporting HPC environments, job schedulers, parallel computing, and containerized workloads.
• Observability & Production Support: Experience building monitoring pipelines using Grafana, CloudWatch, and Container Insights, including incident management and root cause analysis.

Skills

Agile,AWS,AWS infrastructure,Monitor application performance,cloud-based data platforms,CloudWatch,containerized workloads,logging,data pipelines,data pipeline,observability tools,Grafana,High-Performance Computing (HPC),HPC environments,job schedulers,Kubernetes,monitoring tools,parallel computing,Troubleshoot complex technical issues,troubleshoot,problem-solving skills,reliability,collaborative,cost optimization,monitoring dashboards,governance,health checks,incident management,infrastructure,troubleshooting guides,Train and mentor,metrics,platform engineering,production operations,Production Support,regulatory requirements,root cause analysis,security,technical documentation,technical support

Equal Opportunity Employer

Race, Color, Religion, Sex, Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, National Origin, Age, Genetic Information, Disability, Protected Veteran Status, or any other legally protected group status.

Randstad Digital

At Randstad Digital, we welcome people of all abilities and want to ensure that our hiring and interview process meets the needs of all applicants. If you require a reasonable accommodation to make your application or interview experience a great one, please contact [e-mail].

Benefits

Pay offered to a successful candidate will be based on several factors including the candidate's education, work experience, work location, specific job duties, certifications, etc. In addition, Randstad Digital offers a comprehensive benefits package, including: medical, prescription, dental, vision, AD&D, and life insurance offerings, short-term disability, and a 401K plan (all benefits are based on eligibility).

Posting Length

This posting is open for thirty (30) days.

Legal

It is unlawful in Massachusetts to require or administer a lie detector test as a condition of employment or continued employment. An employer who violates this law shall be subject to criminal penalties and civil liability.