Site Reliability Engineer

Our Financial Services client is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to join their team.

Title:

Site Reliability Engineer

Location:

Charlotte, NC or Chandler, AZ

Length: 1 year +

Pay Rate: 70-75 /hr. w2

• 3+ years of experience in Windows or Linux administration production support.

We are seeking a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to help develop our client's platform operations across Windows, Linux, and cloud-native environments. This role is central to our transformation from app-specific support to platform-wide reliability engineering. You will bring deep expertise in Google Cloud Platform (GCP), container orchestration, and automation, enabling scalable, secure, and resilient infrastructure that supports diverse applications across our enterprise.

• 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, enabling scalable microservices architectures.
• Lead infrastructure provisioning and configuration using Terraform, Ansible, and GCP-native tools.

• Develop automation scripts and pipelines to eliminate manual toil and accelerate incident response.
• Implement observability frameworks using SLIs/SLOs, Prometheus, Grafana, and GCP Operations Suite.
• Drive proactive monitoring, alerting, and telemetry across hybrid environments.

• Lead incident response, root cause analysis, and postmortems.
• Build self-healing systems and automated remediation workflows using GCP-native services and scripting.

• Collaborate with Info Sec to enforce hardening standards, manage vulnerabilities, and support compliance initiatives.
• Integrate security into CI/CD pipelines and container platforms using IAM, encryption, and policy enforcement.

• 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.

• Strong scripting skills in Power Shell, 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).
• Experience with CI/CD tools (e.g., Git Lab CI and Jenkins).
• Familiarity with ITIL practices and change management.
• Exposure to Service Now, load balancers, certificate management, and endpoint protection tools.
• Financial Services or highly regulated industry experience.
• Ability to be on-call over weekends and possibly holidays as needed.