Site Reliability Engineer; SRE

Position: Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)
Job Title: Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) - Identity Directory Services
Location: Chandler, AZ (Hybrid - Onsite 3 days a week)
Long Term Contract (Opportunity for Extension, Opportunity for Conversion FTE)
Pay Rate: $70 hourly W2 (C2C Not Allowed)
Overview
We are seeking a highly skilled Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) - Identity Directory Services to lead the reliability, scalability, and security of enterprise identity platforms. This role serves as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) for Active Directory and modern identity services across hybrid and multi cloud environments.
You will play a critical role in ensuring availability, resilience, and operational excellence, while leading automation, vulnerability remediation, and standardization efforts within identity infrastructure.
This is a hands-on senior engineering role ideal for someone with deep technical expertise and a passion for building secure, reliable, and scalable identity systems.
Key Responsibilities

• Serve as the primary SRE and technical SME for Active Directory and enterprise identity services
• Design and operate highly available and resilient identity architectures, including backup, recovery, and disaster recovery strategies
• Partner with security and platform engineering teams to identify and remediate vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, and legacy/non-compliant technologies
• Implement SRE best practices, including:
  • SLIs/SLOs and error budgets
  • Proactive monitoring, logging, and alerting
  • Chaos engineering and failure simulations
• Lead automation initiatives using Infrastructure-as-Code and modern configuration management approaches
• Support multi-cloud identity integrations across Azure, AWS, and Google Cloud Platform
• Ensure secure implementation of authentication, authorization, and secrets management
• Drive incident response efforts, including root cause analysis and post-incident remediation
• Establish and enforce engineering standards, patterns, and guardrails
• Act as a trusted advisor and mentor for engineering teams on identity reliability and security

Required Qualifications
Primary Skills

• Active Directory (AD) Expertise
  • Deep knowledge of AD architecture, replication, DNS, trusts, and Group Policy (GPO)
  • Experience with AD backup, recovery, and forest/domain restoration
• Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)
  • Proven experience applying SRE principles (availability, reliability, observability)
  • Experience supporting Tier-0 or mission-critical infrastructure
• Identity & Access Management (IAM)
  • Strong understanding of authentication, authorization, federation, and privileged access
• Cloud Platforms
  • Hands-on experience with identity services in Azure, AWS, and Google Cloud Platform
• Automation & Scripting
  • Experience with Power Shell, Python, or Bash
  • Familiarity with Infrastructure-as-Code tools (e.g., Terraform)
• Security & Vulnerability Remediation
  • Proven ability to detect and remediate identity-related vulnerabilities and misconfigurations

Preferred / Additional Skills

• Identity Threat Detection & Response (ITDR) frameworks
• Privileged Access Management (PAM) platforms (vaulting, session monitoring)
• Secrets and key management systems
• Policy-as-Code and compliance automation frameworks
• Experience integrating identity services with CI/CD pipelines and platform engineering teams
• Strong experience in incident management and continuous improvement
• Demonstrated ability to mentor and influence engineering teams at scale

What You'll Bring

• A strong engineering mindset with a focus on automation and reliability
• The ability to thrive in complex, large-scale environments
• Passion for improving security posture and system resilience
• Excellent collaboration and communication skills

Why Join Us

• Work on mission-critical identity systems that impact enterprise-scale environments
• Gain exposure to cutting-edge cloud and security technologies
• Collaborate with top-tier engineering and security teams
• Be a key driver in shaping identity platform strategy and standards

Job Type & Location
This is a Contract position based out of Chandler, AZ.
Pay and Benefits
The pay range for this position is $70.00 - $70.00/hr.
Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on your job classification and length of employment. Benefits are subject to change and may be subject to specific elections, plan, or program terms. If eligible, the benefits available for this temporary role may include the following:
Medical, dental & vision
Critical Illness, Accident, and Hospital
401(k) Retirement Plan - Pre-tax and Roth post-tax contributions available
Life Insurance (Voluntary Life & AD&D for the employee and dependents)
Short and long-term disability
Health Spending Account (HSA)
Transportation benefits
Employee Assistance Program
Time Off/Leave (PTO, Vacation or Sick Leave)
Workplace Type
This is a hybrid position in Chandler,AZ.
Final date to receive applications
This position is anticipated to close on Jun 12, 2026.

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