Principal Engineer - Platform Engineering

Genesis
10 is currently seeking a Principal Engineer - Platform Engineering for a contract position with a Global Financial Institution located in Irving, TX. This is a 12+ month contract opportunity.

This role supports a critical Platform Engineering team responsible for stabilizing, scaling, and operating applications as they move closer to production release. The ideal candidate is a strong Dev Ops and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) professional with hands-on expertise in observability, incident management, and cloud platforms. This individual will play a leading role in supporting production systems, preventing outages, and improving system reliability through automation and intelligent monitoring.

Responsibilities:

• Lead production support efforts across a portfolio of 20+ applications, ensuring stability, performance, and rapid issue resolution
• Design and build advanced monitoring, alerting, and observability dashboards using tools such as Splunk, Grafana, App Dynamics, and Prometheus
• Proactively identify risks through gap analysis, anomaly detection, and predictive alerting, preventing production incidents before they occur
• Troubleshoot complex production issues across distributed microservices environments, reducing MTTR through deep technical expertise
• Drive adoption of modern SRE practices, including automation, AIOps, and intelligent monitoring solutions
• Support applications running on Open Shift and cloud-native platforms, with a focus on reliability and scalability
• Collaborate closely with development teams during release cycles, providing production-readiness guidance and operational support
• Participate in 24x7 on-call rotation, demonstrating urgency and ownership during incidents
• Mentor and guide engineers, helping elevate team capabilities in SRE, Dev Ops, and platform engineering practices
• Act as a trusted technical leader, able to quickly switch priorities and manage competing demands in a high-pressure environment

Requirements:

• 10+ years of Platform and production support
• 7+ years of Engineering experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work or consulting experience, training, military experience, education
• 5 years of Redhat Linux, Open Shift, Kubernetes, Java, microservices, Spring Boot, Python experience
• 5 years of Observability dashboard creation experience - Grafana, Splunk, SPLOC, App Dynamics
• 5 years of Observability alerts and Incident handling - AIOPS, Service now, Bigpanda etc
• 4 years of React.js, Apache, Kafka, relational databases experience
• 4 years of distributed systems, microservices architectures, and cloud native platforms experience

Desired skills:

• A genuine, hands-on engineer who can operate across multiple roles (SRE, Dev Ops, Production Support)
• Strong ability to shift priorities quickly and respond with urgency in critical situations
• Deep understanding of application support in cloud environments, especially Open Shift
• Experience in the financial services industry strongly preferred
• Prior development experience is a plus, particularly in Java-based ecosystems

Pay range: $86.09 - $94.09 per hour

Only candidates available and ready to work directly as Genesis
10 employees will be considered for this position.

If you have the described qualifications and are interested in this exciting opportunity, please apply!

Ranked a Top Staffing Firm in the U.S. by Staffing Industry Analysts for six consecutive years, Genesis
10 puts thousands of consultants and employees to work across the United States every year in contract, contract-for-hire, and permanent placement roles. With more than 300 active clients, Genesis
10 provides access to many of the Fortune 100 firms and a variety of mid-market organizations across the full spectrum of industry verticals.

For contract roles, Genesis
10 offers the benefits listed below. If this is a perm-placement opportunity, our recruiter can talk you through the unique benefits offered for that particular client. Benefits of Working with Genesis
10:

• Access to hundreds of clients, most who have been working with Genesis
  10 for 5-20+ years.
• The opportunity to have a career-home in Genesis
  10; many of our consultants have…