Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

The Opportunity: We are seeking a highly skilled Site Reliability Engineer to join a mission-critical platform and fleet management project for one of our clients. The ideal candidate will be a seasoned engineer with strong infrastructure engineering experience, capable of driving automation, scalability, and reliability at the core of modern application designs. This position requires significant hands-on experience with cloud platforms and a deep understanding of Kubernetes, Terraform, and infrastructure-as-code principles. The Engineer will be part of the Platform Engineering team and will help architect, deploy, and monitor the developed solution.

• Role: Site Reliability Engineer
• Experience: 7 Years
• Location: Las Vegas, NV 
• Duration: 12 Month Contract

Responsibilities:

• Design, implement, and maintain platform and fleet management frameworks to support scalable and reliable applications in a hybrid environment.
• Leverage Kubernetes-based architectures to orchestrate and manage containerized applications.
• Develop custom automation and infrastructure-as-code solutions, using Terraform and other tools, to fill gaps in existing automation processes.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure platform infrastructure is designed for resilience, scalability, and reliability.
• Collaborate with application teams to develop and refine Service Level Agreements (SLAs) to track and improve uptime and performance metrics.
• Work on complex technical challenges that require deep expertise in cloud-native technologies and infrastructure management.
• Automate manual processes and continuously improve infrastructure for efficiency and cost-effectiveness.
• Participate in incident response and root cause analysis for production issues as a representative of the Platform Engineering team.

Required Skills and Experience:

• 7 years of experience in infrastructure engineering or a related role, with a focus on cloud-based environments.
• Strong expertise with Kubernetes, including deploying, managing, and scaling applications.
• Hands-on experience with Terraform for infrastructure automation.
• Proficient in managing and deploying applications on Azure, AWS, and/or GCP.
• Experience in writing custom code to automate and enhance infrastructure processes.
• Strong experience in building and deploying infrastructure as code in a CI/CD pipeline.
• Solid understanding of scalability, reliability, and fault tolerance in distributed systems.
• Strong working knowledge of the following technologies and tools: Kubernetes, Containers, Fleet Management, Serverless and Event-Driven Architectures, Package Management, and Service Mesh.
• Strong working knowledge of development best practices (unit test development, IDEs, documentation, etc.) including hands-on experience with a modern programming language.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a collaborative team.

Desired Skills:

• Familiarity with all public cloud providers, specifically deployment of containerized applications.
• Experience in building and maintaining large-scale systems in production environments.
• Advanced troubleshooting skills for cloud platforms and containerized applications.
• Familiarity with specific software tools: Rafay (management and deployment), Crossplane (cross-cloud control plane), Knative (serverless Kubernetes), Helm (package management), Karpenter (autoscaling), and Istio (service mesh).
• Familiarity with monitoring, logging, and performance tuning tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, and the ELK Stack.

Technologent is an Equal Opportunity Employer -- EEO/AA Employer/Vet/Disabled -- for reasonable accommodations, please contact us at hr@technologent.com
 
Technologent is a Global Provider of Edge-to-Edge℠ Information Technology Solutions and Services for Fortune 1000 and SMB companies. We offer a unique blend of business practices that are aligned to solve for top CIO concerns. Our core competencies focus on data center infrastructure, business continuity, data protection, service automation and orchestration, continuous intelligence, monitoring, connectivity, collaboration and cybersecurity. These practices are supported by our professional services, digital transformation services and financial services offerings. By providing custom solutions and services designed to fit your business needs, we enable your organization to be more agile, responsive and competitive. Technologent empowers your company to ascend to the next level in IT.
 
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