SRE/Platform Engineer

Stash Talent Services; Virginia (MN); À distance; USD 96 432 - 117 096; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

A well-regarded talent services company is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) / Platform Engineer for a 6-month contract-to-hire role. The position involves maintaining hybrid environments, managing Kubernetes clusters, and collaborating with multiple teams to ensure platform reliability. Candidates should have 7+ years of experience in relevant fields and strong skills in CI/CD and cloud operations, particularly Azure. This is a remote position with a competitive hourly rate.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in SRE, Platform Engineering, or DevOps.
• Strong Kubernetes operational experience.
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD and data pipelines.

Responsabilités

• Maintain hybrid platform environments for reliability.
• Manage Kubernetes clusters for high availability and performance.
• Implement observability practices to support platform operations.

Connaissances

Kubernetes management

CI/CD pipeline creation

Azure services familiarity

Linux system administration

Infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Helm)

Outils

OpenShift

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

Azure DevOps

Description du poste

Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) / Platform Engineer

Location: Remote (prefer Northern Virginia)

Duration: 6 months contract to hire

Base pay range: $70.00/hr - $85.00/hr

Overview

The Company is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) / Platform Engineer to support the client in enhancing and operating its hybrid analytical platform. The engineer will work across both on-premises and cloud-based environments, leveraging a broad set of platform engineering skills to ensure reliability, scalability, and consistency of workloads across locations.

Key Responsibilities

• Operate and maintain hybrid platform environments, supporting both on-premises and Azure cloud-based analytical platforms.
• Manage and optimize Kubernetes clusters, ensuring high availability, performance, and security.
• Design, build, and maintain data and code pipelines, enabling efficient automation and workload orchestration across the platform.
• Collaborate with data engineering, DevSecOps, and cloud architecture teams to integrate and standardize platform operations.
• Contribute to infrastructure-as-code and automation initiatives to improve deployment repeatability and environment consistency.
• Implement observability practices — including monitoring, logging, and alerting — to support platform reliability and performance management.
• Participate in incident response and continuous improvement efforts to drive platform stability and resilience.

Required Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience as an SRE, Platform Engineer, or DevOps Engineer supporting hybrid or cloud-native platforms.
• Strong experience operating and maintaining Kubernetes environments (deployment, scaling, monitoring, troubleshooting).
• Extensive experience with OpenShift to build, modernize, and deploy applications at scale across various cloud environments and on-premises.
• Hands‑on experience creating and managing CI/CD pipelines and data pipelines (e.g., Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, or similar tools).
• Familiarity with Azure services and cloud-native operations (VMs, containers, networking, security, and monitoring).
• Solid understanding of Linux system administration, automation, and containerization.
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools (Terraform, Helm, or ARM/Bicep templates).
• Excellent collaboration skills with cross‑functional teams in complex enterprise environments.

Preferred Skills

• Experience supporting data analytics or financial systems.
• Knowledge of observability and SRE best practices (SLIs, SLOs, SLAs).
• Familiarity with Databricks, Azure Data Factory, or related analytical workloads.
• Background working within regulated or financial industry environments.

Seniority level

Mid‑Senior level

Employment type

Full‑time

Job function

Information Technology