Sr. Site Reliability Engineer

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Job Title:  Sr. Site Reliability Engineer
Location-Type:  Remote (U.S.-based)
Start Date Is:  ASAP
Duration:  Contract (12 months)
Compensation Range:  $70/hr - $80/hr W2

Job Description:

Own and operate mission-critical cloud services supporting highly secure, sovereign cloud environments. This role focuses on ensuring uptime, reliability, and performance of enterprise-scale platform services by driving automation, monitoring, incident response, and continuous improvement across CloudFoundry-based infrastructure.

This position is ideal for a hands-on reliability engineer who enjoys deep technical ownership, solving complex production problems, and working in a structured, security-first environment where stability and precision matter.

Day-to-Day Responsibilities:

• Own reliability and operational health of production platform services in a globally distributed environment.
• Deploy upgrades, patches, and enhancements following detailed release documentation and strict change management processes.
• Monitor system performance, investigate anomalies, and proactively prevent downtime and performance degradation.
• Lead incident response for production issues, including triage, customer communication, resolution, and root cause analysis.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines and automation to support repeatable, secure deployments.
• Troubleshoot distributed systems running on CloudFoundry, Kafka, and Kubernetes.
• Maintain and improve observability frameworks using tools such as Prometheus and Grafana.
• Partner with product and engineering teams to improve service reliability, scalability, and resilience.
• Develop and maintain automation for testing, deployment, and infrastructure management.
• Ensure compliance with security, audit, and sovereign cloud requirements.
• Participate in on-call rotation supporting high-severity production incidents.
• Document system architecture, operational processes, and incident learnings.
• Mentor junior engineers and help elevate operational best practices across the team.
• Operate as a high-ownership engineer in a low-structure environment where services are owned end-to-end.

Requirements:

Must-Haves:

• 8 years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, Platform Engineering, or Production Infrastructure roles.
• Strong hands-on experience with CloudFoundry (or Pivotal Cloud Foundry).
• Strong experience with Kafka and distributed messaging systems.
• Experience supporting or troubleshooting Zookeeper-managed Kafka clusters.
• Deep experience building and managing CI/CD pipelines, ideally using Concourse.
• Strong Kubernetes experience including troubleshooting, operations, and optimization.
• Strong Linux systems administration experience (SUSE, Ubuntu, or similar).
• Experience building automation using scripting or infrastructure-as-code tools.
• Strong Git experience and source control best practices.
• Experience supporting production systems with on-call or incident response responsibilities.
• Experience working in highly secure, regulated, or enterprise environments.
• Strong troubleshooting mindset across application, infrastructure, and networking layers.
• Strong communication skills and ability to operate cross-functionally.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or equivalent experience.

Nice-to-Haves:

• Experience working with SAP products or SAP Business Technology Platform.
• Experience supporting sovereign cloud or government-adjacent environments.
• Experience with AWS services such as EC2, S3, IAM, VPC, CloudWatch, Route53, or RDS.
• Experience with Terraform, Jenkins, Chef, or other automation tooling.
• Experience supporting multi-tenant SaaS environments.
• Experience working with enterprise monitoring and observability frameworks.
• Experience supporting large-scale enterprise or global production environments.