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 GCP

+ 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)

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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 GCP

+ Automation & Scripting

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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…