Senior Cloud Engineering Site Reliability Engineer

Senior Site Reliability Engineer (Cloud Engineering)

Our client, a leading network automation solutions company, is seeking a highly skilled Senior Site Reliability Engineer (Cloud Engineering) to join their growing team. This is an exciting opportunity to help build, support, and scale a cutting-edge SaaS platform focused on cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes, and automation technologies.

(Please note, no 3rd Party applicants will be considered.)

This is a fully remote, full-time contract opportunity.

Compensation:

$70/hour W2

$80/hour CTC

IMPACT OF THIS ROLE

As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) on the Cloud Engineering team, you will play a key role in delivering and maintaining a highly available, scalable, and secure managed SaaS platform. This position is heavily focused on AWS cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes operations, automation, observability, and platform reliability.

You will serve as a senior technical contributor responsible for supporting production environments, improving infrastructure automation, enhancing CI/CD processes, and driving operational excellence across customer deployments. This role requires a proactive engineer who thrives in fast-paced cloud-native environments and enjoys solving complex infrastructure and reliability challenges.

• Operate, maintain, and optimize cloud environments in AWS, including EKS, EC2, RDS, IAM, networking, and related services.
• Manage and support production Kubernetes environments using Helm, Kubernetes manifests, and infrastructure automation tools.
• Design, improve, and maintain CI/CD pipelines using tools such as GitHub Actions, Terraform, and Ansible.

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• Monitor platform health and system reliability using observability tools including Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Datadog, and ELK.
• Troubleshoot complex application, infrastructure, networking, and Kubernetes-related issues across distributed systems.
• Support escalations involving AKS and legacy on-premises customer environments when needed.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with Cloud Operations, Engineering, and Product teams to deliver scalable and reliable platform solutions.

REQUIRED EXPERIENCE & SKILLS

• 5+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, Cloud Engineering, or related infrastructure roles.
• Strong hands-on experience with AWS cloud services, particularly EKS, EC2, IAM, VPC networking, and RDS.
• Production experience managing Kubernetes environments and deploying workloads using Helm.
• Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code tools such as Terraform and automation/configuration tools like Ansible.
• Strong experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, Jenkins, CircleCI, or similar tools.