Job Description
We are a national staffing firm and are currently seeking a Systems Reliability Engineer for a prominent client of ours. This position is Remote (Supporting EST). Details of the position are as follows:
Job Details:
Qualifications:
Top requirements:
Qualifications:
Preferred:
Job Details:
- Pay: $70 – $75/hr to Start!!
- 6-month assignment, possible extension based on budget and performance.
- Candidates can live anywhere in the US but must be able to work 8am – 5pm/9am – 6pm EST.
- Position will help maintain, enhance, and evolve the Kubernetes platforms that enable scientific and engineering teams to deploy, operate, and scale critical applications across both on-premises and cloud environments.
- Strengthen our team’s platform engineering and operational capabilities. You will play a key role in supporting Kubernetes infrastructure managed through Rancher, improving system reliability and automation, and advancing infrastructure-as-code and GitOps practices across our environment.
- Platform Operations: Maintain and enhance Kubernetes platforms across on-premises and cloud environments, ensuring reliability, scalability, and operational efficiency.
- Cluster Management: Support provisioning, upgrades, troubleshooting, and lifecycle management of Kubernetes clusters managed through Rancher.
- Linux Systems Administration: Provide deep technical expertise in Linux-based systems, including performance tuning, troubleshooting, automation, and operational support.
- Infrastructure as Code: Develop and maintain infrastructure-as-code solutions to standardize and automate platform deployment and management, with a preference for Cluster API (CAPI)-based approaches.
- GitOps and Deployment Automation: Support and improve GitOps workflows using ArgoCD to manage cluster and application configuration in a consistent, auditable manner.
- Collaboration: Work closely with developers, scientists, and infrastructure teams to deliver reliable platform services and translate operational needs into sustainable engineering solutions.
- Continuous Improvement: Identify opportunities to improve platform resilience, observability, security, and
Qualifications:
Top requirements:
- Minimum of 5 years professional experience in site reliability engineering, platform engineering, DevOps, or systems engineering roles.
- Candidates must have 5 years strong system administration with Linux!
- Rancher for Kubernetes experience is a must.
- Bachelors is preferred but not required.
Qualifications:
- Hands-on experience operating and supporting Kubernetes platforms in production environments.
- Strong experience managing Kubernetes clusters in both on-premises and cloud-based environments.
- Strong Linux systems administration skills, including troubleshooting, scripting, networking, and system performance analysis.
- Experience with Rancher for Kubernetes cluster management and platform operations.
- Experience implementing infrastructure-as-code solutions for platform provisioning and lifecycle management. Infrastructure as Code: Strong IaC experience; Cluster API (CAPI) preferred.
- Demonstrated success working in Agile teams (Scrum, Kanban).
- GitOps/CI-CD: ArgoCD, Git version control, and deployment automation practices.
- Scripting/Automation: Bash, Python, or similar scripting languages for automation and operational tooling.
Preferred:
- Experience with hybrid infrastructure spanning on-premises and public cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP).
- Experience with Kubernetes ecosystem tooling for observability, logging, monitoring, and alerting.
- Familiarity with security best practices for Kubernetes and Linux platforms.
- Experience supporting scientific research environments, high-performance computing, or computational science workflows.
- Knowledge of CI/CD pipeline development and platform automation patterns.
Numbers & Facts
| Location | Corning, NY (Remote) |
| Industry | Staffing/Employment Agencies |
| Salary | $70–$75 Per Hour |
| Company Size | 500 to 999 employees |
| Website | https://www.thefountaingroup.com/ |
About Company
The Fountain Group provides Contingent Labor, Statement-of-Work, and Contingent-to-Permanent resources to clients with an internal/external Contingent Labor Managed Service Program or Clients without a program. The Fountain Group is committed to the belief that we all share in the responsibility to conduct our businesses in a socially and environmentally responsible manner. We base this on the premise that a company is much more than the products it offers. The effect a company has on the environment, the people and the communities it serves reflects the company’s dedication to being not only a good business, but to being a good corporate citizen. The Fountain Group believes the key to servicing a client is to identify the client demand precisely. Therefore, The Fountain Group focused its efforts on building and developing a process, which can identify an exact match for our client’s needs. Our process utilizes modern technology combined with 30+ years of Talent Acquisition experience to deliver Precision resources. Financial strength is prominent among The Fountain Group’s corporate values. The future of our business will be built on the innovation, compassion, outstanding services and technology, but a solid financial foundation is required to carry us forward to meet our business goal and support our long term vision.
Skills
- Agile Programming Methodologiesunmatched
- Amazon Web Services (AWS)unmatched
- Application Programming Interface (API)unmatched
- Automationunmatched
- Bash Scriptingunmatched
- Best Practicesunmatched
- Budget Managementunmatched
- Cloud Computingunmatched
- Continuous Deployment/Deliveryunmatched
- Continuous Improvementunmatched
- Continuous Integrationunmatched
- DevOpsunmatched
- Ecosystemsunmatched
- GCP (Good Clinical Practices)unmatched
- Gitunmatched
- Identify Issuesunmatched
- Kanbanunmatched
- Linux Administrationunmatched
- Linux Operating Systemunmatched
- Machine Toolunmatched
- Microsoft Windows Azureunmatched
- Network Performance/Analysisunmatched
- Network Systemsunmatched
- Operational Supportunmatched
- Operations Managementunmatched
- Performance Tuning/Optimizationunmatched
- Production Systemsunmatched
- Public Cloudunmatched
- Python Programming/Scripting Languageunmatched
- Reliability Engineeringunmatched
- Scientific Researchunmatched
- Scripting (Scripting Languages)unmatched
- Scrum Project Management and Software Developmentunmatched
- Service Deliveryunmatched
- Software Configuration Managementunmatched
- Source Code/Configuration Management (SCM)unmatched
- Systems Administration/Managementunmatched
- Systems Analysisunmatched
- Systems Engineeringunmatched
- Systems Reliabilityunmatched
- Team Playerunmatched
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