Software Engineer 4 - Contingent

Position: SRE - Site Reliability Engineer - Software Engineer 4 
Location: Charlotte, North Carolina
Duration: Contract
Job ID: 177835

Job Overview:
We are seeking a highly skilled Software Engineer 4 - Contingent to consult on complex initiatives with broad impact and large-scale planning for Software Engineering. This role involves analyzing and resolving multi-faceted challenges, collaborating strategically with client personnel, and ensuring compliance with policies and procedures. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in software engineering, platform reliability, and cloud-native environments, with a focus on automation, security, and scalability.

Responsibilities:

• Consult on complex initiatives with broad impact and large-scale planning for Software Engineering.
• Review and analyze complex, multi-faceted, larger-scale, or longer-term Software Engineering challenges.
• Contribute to the resolution of complex situations requiring a solid understanding of policies, procedures, and compliance requirements.
• Strategically collaborate and consult with client personnel to meet deliverables.
• 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.
• Lead infrastructure provisioning and configuration using Terraform, Ansible, and GCP-native tools.
• Develop automation scripts and pipelines to eliminate manual tasks and accelerate incident response.
• Implement observability frameworks using SLIs/SLOs, Prometheus, Grafana, and GCP Operations Suite.
• Lead incident response, root cause analysis, and postmortems.
• Collaborate with InfoSec to enforce hardening standards, manage vulnerabilities, and support compliance initiatives.
• 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.

• 5+ years of Software Engineering experience or equivalent demonstrated through work, consulting, training, military experience, or education.
• 3+ years of experience in Windows or Linux administration production support.
• 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) are a plus.
• 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 is preferred.
• Ability to be on-call over weekends and possibly holidays as needed.

About PTR Global: PTR Global is a leading provider of information technology and workforce solutions. PTR Global has become one of the largest providers in its industry, with over 5000 professionals providing services across the U.S. and Canada. For more information visit www.ptrglobal.com

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Pay Range: $70-$75/hr. on W2

The specific compensation for this position will be determined by a number of factors, including the scope, complexity and location of the role as well as the cost of labor in the market; the skills, education, training, credentials and experience of the candidate; and other conditions of employment. Our full-time consultants have access to benefits including medical, dental, vision and 401K contributions as well as any other PTO, sick leave, and other benefits mandated by appliable state or localities where you reside or work.
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