DevOps / Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

This is a remote position. DevOps / Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) Job Details Employment Type: Contract Work Mode: Remote Location: Offshore Total Experience Required: 5 to 9 years Relevant Experience Required: 4+ years of dedicated experience in infrastructure automation, cloud orchestration, and CI/CD pipelines Mandatory Certification: AWS Certified DevOps Engineer

• Professional, Microsoft Certified: DevOps Engineer Expert, or Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) Job Summary We are seeking an experienced DevOps / Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to design, automate, and scale our cloud-native infrastructure pipelines. The ideal candidate will bridge the gap between software development and systems operations, building highly available deployment pipelines, writing infrastructure-as-code (IaC), and optimizing cluster scaling to maximize application uptime, system reliability, and performance.

Key Responsibilities

Design, build, and optimize automated CI/CD pipelines across cloud platforms using industry-standard automation servers (e.g., GitHub Actions , GitLab CI , Jenkins , ArgoCD ). Architect and manage infrastructure-as-code (IaC) templates using Terraform or Open. Tofu to provision secure, modular, and repeatable multi-environment architectures.

Orchestrate containerized production workloads , configuring cluster scaling, service meshes, network routing policies, and deployment strategies on Kubernetes (EKS/AKS/GKE). Implement automated monitoring, logging, and alerting systems utilizing observability tools (e.g., Prometheus , Grafana , Datadog , ELK stack) to actively track platform performance metrics.

Drive system high-availability and fault tolerance efforts , designing disaster recovery plans, automated load balancing parameters, and self-healing cluster scripts. Manage centralized configuration and secret management systems , securely vaulting database credentials, API tokens, and certificate profiles (e.g., Hashi.

Corp Vault , AWS Secrets Manager ). Participate in on-call rotations and lead incident root-cause analysis (RCA) , systematically diagnosing runtime infrastructure failures, performance bottlenecks, and resource leaks.

Requirements

5 to 9 years of core systems engineering or software development experience, with 4+ dedicated years actively designing, building, and operating cloud-native production platforms. Strong technical mastery of Kubernetes cluster administration, Terraform automation layouts, Linux system internals, shell scripting (Bash, Python, or Go), and network protocols.

Deep structural understanding of microservices design, caching mechanics, database scaling limits, and cloud provider API governance. Mandatory certification: AWS DevOps Professional , Azure DevOps Expert , or CKA.

Preferred Qualifications

Prior experience implementing Dev. Sec. Ops controls (e.g., integrating SAST/DAST tools directly into container build phases). Experience with Git. Ops methodologies and progressive delivery mechanisms (e.g., Canary or Blue/Green deployments using Flagger or Istio).

Benefits

12+ years of total IT software engineering or operational management background, with 6+ dedicated years acting as a CISO, Director of Security, or Principal Enterprise GRC Advisor. Strong visionary mastery of modern security trends, zero-trust target states, risk calculation paradigms, and multi-cloud information landscape parameters.

Deep communication execution skills , with a proven history of negotiating security budgets, steering board panels, and handling high-pressure public communication events. Mandatory certification: CISM or CISSP.

Preferred Qualifications

Certified in the Governance of Enterprise IT (CGEIT) or Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) credential. Prior experience steering complex post-merger information platform integrations or stabilizing security posture profiles during major corporate equity restructurings.