Job Title: Senior DevOps & SRE Engineer (Hybrid – Seattle, WA) We are looking for a Senior DevOps & Site Reliability Engineer with 10–12 years of proven experience to join our Seattle-based client. This is a hybrid role (4 days onsite, 1 day remote) where you will work closely with application development teams to build automation, streamline deployments, and bring SRE best practices into effect. This role is perfect for someone with a strong DevOps background and additional SRE expertise, ready to enhance application performance, reliability, and scalability.
Key Responsibilities
Design, build, and maintain CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, or other CI/CD tools.
Manage and optimize containerization workflows with Docker (dockerfiles, builds, registries, docker compose, devcontainers, kaniko).
Deploy, monitor, and scale applications on Kubernetes (CKAD preferred) with GitOps practices (ArgoCD / Flux).
Implement observability solutions – monitoring, alerting, and dashboarding with Datadog, Grafana, Loki, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, ELK.
Develop automation scripts and tools using Bash, Shell, Node.js, Go, or Python.
Collaborate with developers to improve application performance, reliability, and release cycles.
Apply SRE principles for incident management, error budgets, and system reliability improvements.
Perform Linux administration tasks, including scripting and automation (Ansible preferred).
Manage cloud infrastructure (Azure / AKS) with some exposure to Terraform.
Required Skills
10–12 years of experience in DevOps Engineering / SRE roles.
Expert in Docker and Kubernetes (application-level expertise, CKAD a plus).