SRE/Devops Engineer

KellyMitchell Group; Louisville (KY); On-site; USD 80,000 - 114,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

ESOP 401K

Job summary

KellyMitchell is seeking a Senior SRE/DevOps Engineer for a 6-month contract in Louisville, KY. The role focuses on reliability, observability, and platform engineering for restaurant technology systems.

Responsibilities include defining SLOs/SLIs, leading post-incident reviews, and building internal tooling. Hybrid onsite presence with Tue/Thu in-office expectations is required.

Qualifications

• 6+ years in IT infrastructure.
• 3+ years in SRE/DevOps, cloud or platform engineering.
• Hands-on AWS experience (VPC, EC2, ECS, EKS, Fargate, Lambda, IAM, RDS, S3).
• Experience with Microsoft Azure.
• Strong Kubernetes/container orchestration expertise.
• Experience with GitLab CI/CD and CI/CD design.
• Terraform for infrastructure provisioning.
• Experience with enterprise networking and MDM platforms.
• Experience with scripting (Python, Bash, Go).
• Proven ability to build internal tooling and API integrations.
• Experience defining and operating against SLOs/SLIs.
• Comfortable in Linux CLI; Windows a plus for endpoints.

Responsibilities

• Define and own SLOs/SLIs for restaurant tech systems.
• Use error budgets to balance reliability with velocity.
• Build and maintain monitoring and observability platforms.
• Lead blameless post-incident reviews.
• Drive root cause analysis and permanent corrective actions.
• Identify reliability risks across the stack proactively.
• Establish and report reliability metrics to leadership.

Skills

SRE/DevOps

Cloud architecture

Kubernetes

Terraform

CI/CD

Python

Linux

Networking

Azure

GitLab CI/CD

Tools

Terraform

GitLab CI/CD

Kubernetes

Prometheus

Grafana

CloudWatch

Job description

Job Summary

Our client, a leading Restaraunt provider, is seeking a SRE/Devops Engineer to join their team!

Contract Details

Contract type and duration: 6-month contract
Work location: Louisville, KY
Onsite, hybrid or remote expectations: Hybrid (On-Site, Tues/Thursday)

Core Responsibilities

• Define and own Service Level Objectives (SLOs) and Service Level Indicators (SLIs) for restaurant technology systems;
• use error budgets to balance reliability with velocity
• Build and maintain monitoring, alerting, and observability platforms that provide meaningful signal
• Lead blameless post-incident reviews;
• drive root cause analysis and ensure permanent corrective actions are implemented
• Proactively identify reliability risks across the stack before they become incidents
• Establish and track reliability metrics; report on system health to engineering leadership

Required Skills/Experience (Must-Haves)

• 6+ years in IT infrastructure
• 3+ years focused on site reliability engineering, cloud architecture, or platform engineering
• Hands-on experience with AWS (VPC, EC2, ECS, EKS, Fargate, Lambda, IAM, RDS, S3)
• Working experience with Microsoft Azure
• Strong expertise in Kubernetes and container orchestration, including edge or distributed deployments
• Experience with GitLab CI/CD and CI/CD pipeline design
• Solid experience with Terraform for infrastructure provisioning
• Experience with enterprise networking — switch configuration, VLANs, network troubleshooting
• Familiarity with Mobile Device Management (MDM) platforms
• Experience with automation and scripting (Python, Bash, Go, or equivalent)
• Proven ability to build internal tooling and API integrations, not just configure managed services
• Experience defining and operating against SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets
• Comfortable working in Linux command-line environments; Windows familiarity a plus where restaurant endpoints require it

Preferred Skills/Experience (Nice-to-Haves)

• Experience designing serverless architectures (AWS Lambda, Fargate, API Gateway, EventBridge).
• Experience with DevSecOps tooling (SAST — Static Application Security Testing, DAST — Dynamic Application Security Testing, container scanning, IaC scanning).
• Familiarity with security frameworks (CIS, NIST, ISO 27001, SOC 2).
• AWS and/or Azure certifications.
• Experience with monitoring and observability tools (CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, or SIEM solutions).
• Background in restaurant, retail, or distributed edge technology environments.
• Experience using AI-assisted development tools for scripting, troubleshooting, and documentation.

Compensation & Benefits

Pay Range: The approximate pay range for this position is between $79,800.00 and $114,000.00. Please note that the pay range provided is a good faith estimate. Final compensation may vary based on factors including but not limited to background, knowledge, skills, and location. We comply with local wage minimums.

Medical, Dental, & Vision Insurance Plans
Employee-Owned Profit Sharing (ESOP) 401K offered

About KellyMitchell

At KellyMitchell, our culture is world class. We're movers and shakers! We don't mind a bit of friendly competition, and we reward hard work with unlimited potential for growth. This is an exciting opportunity to join a company known for innovative solutions and unsurpassed customer service. We're passionate about helping companies solve their biggest IT staffing & project solutions challenges. As an employee-owned, women-led organization serving Fortune 500 companies nationwide, we deliver expert service at a moment's notice.