Description
Title: Senior Site Reliability Engineer
Location: Charlotte, NC
Duration: 23 W, 1 D
Work Engagement: W2
Work Schedule: Hybrid 3 days in office/2 days remote
Benefits on offer for this contract position: Health Insurance, Life insurance, 401K and Voluntary Benefits
Summary:
Key Responsibilities:
Platform Reliability & Cloud Engineering
Ensure high availability, performance, and security of production systems across Windows, Linux, and GCP environments.
Engineer and support containerized workloads using Kubernetes (GKE) and Docker, enabling scalable microservices architectures.
Lead infrastructure provisioning and configuration using Terraform, Ansible, and GCP-native tools.
Automation & Observability
Develop automation scripts and pipelines to eliminate manual toil and accelerate incident response.
Implement observability frameworks using SLIs/SLOs, Prometheus, Grafana, and GCP Operations Suite.
Drive proactive monitoring, alerting, and telemetry across hybrid environments.
Incident Management & Resilience
Lead incident response, root cause analysis, and postmortems.
Build self-healing systems and automated remediation workflows using GCP-native services and scripting.
Security & Compliance
Collaborate with InfoSec to enforce hardening standards, manage vulnerabilities, and support compliance initiatives.
Integrate security into CI/CD pipelines and container platforms using IAM, encryption, and policy enforcement.
Collaboration & Enablement
Partner with developers, application owners, and infrastructure teams to deliver reliable, cloud-native platforms.
Document configurations, runbooks, and operational procedures to enable cross-team reuse and transparency.
Key Requirements:
Applicants must be authorized to work for ANY employer in the U.S. This position is not eligible for visa sponsorship.
Strong scripting skills in PowerShell, Python, or Shell.
Hands-on experience with GCP services, including GKE, IAM, Cloud Functions, and Cloud Monitoring.
Proficiency in container technologies: Docker and Kubernetes.
Familiarity with Linux system administration and hybrid cloud environments.
Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools: Terraform, Ansible.
Strong understanding of Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, and Windows security principles.
Security certifications (e.g., CISSP, Security+, GCP Professional Cloud Security Engineer).
Experience with CI/CD tools (e.g., GitLab CI and Jenkins).
Familiarity with ITIL practices and change management.
Exposure to ServiceNow, load balancers, certificate management, and endpoint protection tools.
Financial Services or highly regulated industry experience.
Ability to be on-call over weekends and possibly holidays as needed.
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