Staff Site Reliability Engineer ASCENDING · Fairfax · Site Reliability Pay not stated 11d ago

Devopsroles; Fairfax, Northern (VA, KY); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Part time

Job summary

Devopsroles client is seeking a Senior SRE to join their Cloud Infrastructure team. This role is 100% remote within the continental US and long-term contract (3+ years).

You will help build and operate a cloud platform that supports the organization, with strong focus on AWS, Azure, and Terraform-based IaC. The ideal candidate will have 8+ years in automated cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes, and on-call experience, plus expertise in cloud networking and deployment automation.

Qualifications

• US citizenship is required.
• Strong experience with AWS or Azure cloud as a cloud/DevOps engineer.
• Hands-on Terraform experience in a heavy IaC environment.
• FedRAMP experience is a plus.
• 8+ years building automated cloud infrastructure.
• Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field.

Responsibilities

• Build, maintain, and operate IaaS and PaaS in AWS and Azure clouds.
• Engineer deployment automation, CI/CD pipelines, and tooling.
• Own reliability of non-prod and production delivery environments.
• Use Kubernetes for container orchestration to ensure scalability and HA.
• Implement monitoring, logging, and alerting for performance and availability.
• Mentor junior team members and provide technical guidance.
• Support software/cloud infra in on-call rotation when needed.

Skills

Terraform

AWS

Azure

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Cloud engineering

Networking

On-call

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in Computer Science / Software Engineering

Tools

Terraform

GitHub

GitLab

Kubernetes

Job description

RequiredU.S.Citizenship/Noclearanceneeded/100%remotewithintheUS

• StaffSiteReliabilityEngineer/CloudSME
• Location:100%remoteinthecontinentalUS
• Type:Long-termcontract(3+years)

Our client, a premier national healthcare provider, is currently looking for a Senior SRE on their Cloud Infrastructure team. You will be helping to maintain, add new features and operate our client's cloud platform that supports the entire organization.

The ideal candidate will have strong experience in AWS and Azure, and most of those associated services. The client is looking for strong Terraform experience and knowledge of networking within an AWS or Azure environment. Our client is looking for someone who truly has expertise in cloud engineering and building cloud platforms.

Terraform is heavily used for IaC and that experience is a must have. Since our client is multi- cloud and this team also supports an Azure platform. Any type of a Computer Science or Object Oriented Coding background is also a preferred skill to have.

Job Responsibilities:

• Build, maintain, and operate IaaS and PaaS infrastructure in AWS and Azure commercial and government clouds
• Engineer and maintain deployment automation/tooling (CI/CD pipelines, scripting, deployment platforms), converting repeat manual work into durable automation.
• Own reliability of non-prod and production delivery environments: keep release environments healthy, respond to operational issues impacting delivery, and coordinate environment refresh/restore activities
• Utilize Kubernetes for container orchestration and management, ensuring scalability,reliability, and high availability of the system.
• Implement robust monitoring, logging, and alerting mechanisms to ensure systemperformance and availability.
• Mentor and provide technical guidance to junior team members, fostering a culture ofcontinuous learning and professional growth.
• Support software and/or cloud-infrastructure in an on-call rotation basis when needed.

Qualifications:

• United States Citizenship.
• Strong experience working within the AWS or Azure cloud as a cloud engineer or DevOps engineer.
• FedRAMP experience is a big plus.
• Must have hands-on Terraform skills since it is a heavy Terraform environment. Strongexperience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform).
• Expert knowledge of deploying Production grade applications in AWS and Azure
• Familiarity with IDEs and Source Control tools like Github or Gitlab.
• Solid awareness of networking and internet protocols.
• 8+ years of experience in automated cloud infrastructure.
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field
• 8+ years of experience with cloud computing platforms with Azure including experience with serverless architectures, containers, and orchestration