SRE and Platform Engineer

YOH Services LLC; Addison (TX); Hybrid; USD 77,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Prescription, Dental & Vision

Health Savings Account (HSA)

Life & Disability Insurance

401K Retirement Savings Plan

Direct Deposit & weekly epayroll

Job summary

Yoh, a Day & Zimmermann company, is seeking an experienced AWS SRE/Platform Engineer for a contract-to-hire hybrid role in Addison, TX. Lead reliability, performance, security, and observability for enterprise platforms and web apps, guiding cloud infrastructure, IaC, and security tooling.

The ideal candidate is a hands-on technical lead with strong AWS, Terraform, Kubernetes/EKS, DNS, CDN, WAF, and SIEM practices, capable of mentoring teams and driving modernization across global engineering

Qualifications

• 8+ years supporting enterprise applications, cloud platforms, infrastructure services, or web technologies.
• 3+ years serving as a Technical Lead, Senior Engineer, Architect, or equivalent.
• Experience with AWS, Terraform, Kubernetes/EKS, DNS, CDN, AWS WAF, SSL/TLS, observability platforms, CI/CD, and SRE practices.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership across Platform Engineering and SRE functions.
• Define and drive adoption of SLOs/SLIs and incident management.
• Own enterprise monitoring and observability platform, dashboards, and alerting standards.
• Lead governance of the global domain portfolio (DNS, certificate management).
• Design and support Terraform IaC modules and deployment pipelines.

Skills

AWS

Terraform

Kubernetes/EKS

DNS

CDN

AWS WAF

SSL/TLS

Observability

CI/CD

SRE practices

Job description

AWS SRE/Platform Engineer

Contract to Hire

Addison, TX (Hybrid)

ROLE OVERVIEW

Seeking a highly experienced Technical Lead - SRE and Platform Engineering to provide technical leadership for the reliability, performance, security, observability, and operational management of enterprise platforms and modern web applications.

This role is ideal for a senior engineer, technical lead, or architect who enjoys solving complex technical challenges, mentoring engineers, and influencing technical direction while remaining hands‑on. The position offers a clear growth path into a future Technical Manager - SRE and Platform Engineering role as organizational needs and leadership responsibilities expand.

The Technical Lead will serve as a senior technical leader for Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), monitoring and observability, domain portfolio management, cloud platform operations, infrastructure automation, web application security, and application availability. The role will work closely with engineering teams in Dallas, Europe, and Asia Pacific to establish consistent operational standards, improve platform reliability, and drive technology modernization across global technology landscape.

The successful candidate will play a critical role in ensuring the reliability, performance, security, and operational health of Mary Kay's externally facing digital platforms through ownership of key platform services including observability, domain services, DNS, certificate management, CDN technologies, web application firewalls, cloud platform infrastructure, and Infrastructure‑as‑Code (IaC) solutions.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Technical Leadership

• Provide technical leadership across Platform Engineering and Site Reliability Engineering functions.
• Establish engineering standards, operational best practices, and reliability objectives.
• Lead technical decision‑making for cloud infrastructure, observability platforms, domain services, infrastructure automation, application security, and operational tooling.
• Mentor engineers and provide technical coaching across multiple disciplines.
• Drive technical roadmaps and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Evaluate, promote, and help operationalize emerging engineering capabilities, including AI‑assisted development tools, coding agents, Infrastructure‑as‑Code automation, and other technologies that improve engineering productivity, quality, and speed of delivery.

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)

• Lead enterprise reliability initiatives focused on availability, scalability, resiliency, performance, and operational excellence.
• Define and drive adoption of SLOs, SLIs, Error Budgets, Incident Management, and Root Cause Analysis.
• Drive automation initiatives that reduce operational overhead and improve service reliability.

Enterprise Monitoring and Observability Platform

• Serve as the technical owner for the enterprise monitoring and observability platform.
• Support APM, infrastructure monitoring, synthetic monitoring, Real User Monitoring (RUM), centralized logging, and distributed tracing.
• Define dashboards, alerting standards, operational metrics, and reporting.

Global Domain Portfolio

• Lead governance of the company's global domain portfolio.
• Manage registrations, renewals, DNS services, certificate lifecycle management, and related vendor relationships.
• Ensure domain‑related services remain secure, compliant, and highly available.

AWS Infrastructure & Security

• Provide technical leadership for AWS infrastructure, Kubernetes/EKS, CDN, DNS, SSL/TLS, load balancing, Web Application Firewalls (WAF), and edge security services.
• Design and support Infrastructure‑as‑Code solutions using Terraform.
• Establish standards for cloud provisioning, automation, and environment consistency.

Terraform & Deployment Pipelines

• Design, maintain, and optimize Terraform modules and deployment pipelines.
• Promote automated provisioning, version control, testing, and infrastructure governance.
• Drive reduction of manual deployment activities through automation.

WAF & Security Management

• Administer and optimize AWS WAF and comparable WAF technologies.
• Manage WAF rules, rate limiting, bot protection, IP reputation controls, and application‑layer threat mitigation.
• Partner with Information Security to improve web application protection capabilities.

Escalation & Troubleshooting

• Serve as a senior escalation point for complex production issues.
• Lead troubleshooting across client‑side and server‑side technologies.
• Diagnose issues involving browser behavior, APIs, DNS, CDN, WAF, load balancing, networking, cloud infrastructure, and application performance.
• Drive reliability, resiliency, and end‑user experience improvements.

Cross‑Team Collaboration

• Work closely with engineering teams across North America, Europe, and Asia Pacific.
• Participate in technical reviews, architecture discussions, operational planning, and knowledge sharing.
• Help evolve a follow‑the‑sun operating model.

On‑Call & Incident Management

• Participate in scheduled on‑call rotations supporting critical platforms and services.
• Provide leadership during major incidents and after‑hours escalations.
• Support maintenance, upgrades, deployments, and disaster recovery activities.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• 8+ years supporting enterprise applications, cloud platforms, infrastructure services, or web technologies.
• 3+ years serving as a Technical Lead, Senior Engineer, Architect, or equivalent.
• Strong experience with AWS, Terraform, Kubernetes/EKS, DNS, CDN, AWS WAF, SSL/TLS, observability platforms, CI/CD, and SRE practices.
• Experience troubleshooting large‑scale customer‑facing web applications.
• Experience managing global domain portfolios.
• Experience with enterprise observability platforms and global support models.
• Experience developing enterprise Infrastructure‑as‑Code frameworks and reusable Terraform modules.
• Experience leveraging AI‑assisted development tools and coding agents such as GitHub Copilot, Microsoft Copilot, Claude Code, Cursor, Amazon Q Developer, or similar technologies to accelerate software delivery, infrastructure automation, troubleshooting, and operational efficiency.
• AWS, Terraform, Kubernetes, SRE, networking, security, or cloud certifications.

Estimated Min Rate: $56.00

Estimated Max Rate: $80.00

What's In It for You?

We welcome you to be a part of the largest and legendary global staffing companies to meet your career aspirations. Yoh's network of client companies has been employing professionals like you for over 65 years in the U.S., UK and Canada. Join Yoh's extensive talent community that will provide you with access to Yoh's vast network of opportunities and gain access to this exclusive opportunity available to you. Benefit eligibility is in accordance with applicable laws and client requirements. Benefits include:

Benefits include:

• Medical, Prescription, Dental & Vision Benefits (for employees working 20+ hours per week)
• Health Savings Account (HSA) (for employees working 20+ hours per week)
• Life & Disability Insurance (for employees working 20+ hours per week)
• MetLife Voluntary Benefits
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• 401K Retirement Savings Plan
• Direct Deposit & weekly epayroll
• Referral Bonus Programs
• Certification and training opportunities

Note: Any pay ranges displayed are estimations. Actual pay is determined by an applicant's experience, technical expertise, and other qualifications as listed in the job description. All qualified applicants are welcome to apply.

Yoh, a Day & Zimmermann company, is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.

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