SRE Centric Engineer

Position Overview

Rate: SRE Centric Engineer
Location: New Jersey, NJ (Onsite)
Type: Contract

• 8+ years in Site Reliability Engineering, Production Engineering, or equivalent roles.
• Deep expertise in distributed systems, resilience engineering, and large‑scale production operations.
• Strong proficiency with observability stacks:
  Metrics, logs, traces, Splunk, ELK, New Relic, synthetic monitoring, APM.
• Advanced experience with service‑level objectives (SLOs), SLIs, error budgets, and reliability governance.
• Expertise in Kubernetes, container orchestration, and workload reliability patterns.
• Strong skills in incident management, on‑call response, war‑room leadership, and RCA methodologies.
• Proven ability to engineer automation/self‑healing systems (auto‑remediation, failure‑mode detection).
• Strong scripting/automation skills in Python, Bash, or similar languages.
• Solid understanding of traffic distribution, load balancing, session handling, and failure isolation.
• Expert debugging and performance troubleshooting across the full stack (network, compute, services).
• Experience with AWS (EKS/ECS, SQS/SNS, S3, Cloud Front, etc.).

• Experience implementing AIOps, alert correlation, noise reduction, or automated RCA frameworks.
• Background in building paved paths, golden templates, or policy‑as‑code reliability gates.
• Experience with reverse proxy troubleshooting, including rate limits, affinity, and routing logic.
• Prior experience in high‑throughput government or regulated environments.
• Performance/load testing experience (designing tests, analyzing throughput, identifying bottlenecks).
• Strong understanding of release reliability, risk recording, and continuous deployment safeguards.
• Familiarity with monitoring‑as‑code or dashboards‑as‑code practices.
• Hands‑on experience with infrastructure‑as‑code (Terraform preferred).

Experience range: 10 to 12 years