Site Reliability Engineer III

Site Reliability Engineer III

Job Type: Contract to hire

Location:

Arlington, TX
Worksite Requirement: 2-days onsite
Salary Conversion Target: $150,000-$160,000
Hourly Pay Rate: $60.00 - $65.00 / hour, W2

Vaco by Highspring is looking for asenior Site Reliability Engineer who can partner with development and architecture teams to improve the reliability, performance, and scalability of enterprise platforms. This is a hands‑on engineering role‑not support‑focused on automation, cloud reliability, and building systems the right way. This role will require working onsite in Arlington, TX 2‑days per week. Candidates must be able to pass a criminal background check and drug screen and must be legally eligible to work in the United States, as our client is unable to sponsor at this time.

• Build reliability, automation, and tooling across distributed systems
• Collaborate directly with architects and software engineers to incorporate reliability principles into new features and platform enhancements
• Define and implement SLOs/SLIs and guide reliability best practices
• Participate in design conversations for microservice‑based and distributed systems; advise on patterns that improve fault tolerance and performance
• Write production‑quality code (Java, Python, or similar) for automation and platform improvements
• Apply Infrastructure‑as‑Code practices (Terraform) to build, validate, and manage cloud environments (Azure)
• Troubleshoot complex systems and improve resiliency, scaling, and performance

• 5‑7+ years in SRE, Dev Ops, or software engineering
• Strong coding background (C#, Java, Python, etc.)
• Deep Azure experience + Kubernetes (AKS)
• Experience with CI/CD, IaC, distributed systems, and cloud monitoring
• Strong communication and problem‑solving skills

Salary range: $150,000 – $160,000 annually. Eligible for discretionary bonuses. Medical, dental, and vision benefits are offered, as well as the company’s 401(k) retirement plan.

Vaco by Highspring is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, sex, religion or creed, national origin, citizenship, age, disability, status as a veteran, union membership, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, political affiliation, or any other protected characteristics as required by federal, state or local law.

Vaco by Highspring and its parents, affiliates, and subsidiaries are committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals. As part of this commitment, Vaco by Highspring and its parents, affiliates, and subsidiaries will ensure that persons with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please contact  Vaco by Highspring also wants all applicants to know their rights that workplace discrimination is illegal.