Engineer - Contingent

Position: Engineer 5 - Contingent
Job Description:

Principal Engineer – Platform Engineering and Production Support Team Overview:
This role supports a critical Platform Engineering team responsible for stabilizing, scaling, and operating applications as they move closer to production release. The team plays a key role in post-deployment, ensuring reliability, performance, and operational excellence across a portfolio of applications. This is not traditional infrastructure support—it is application-focused production engineering, requiring deep technical expertise, proactive issue prevention, and strong ownership of application health in cloud environments.

Role

Summary:

Client is seeking a Principal Engineer to backfill a key contractor position within client Platform Engineering team. This candidate must be Day 1 ready, capable of operating in fast-paced, production-critical environments, and able to seamlessly balance multiple priorities. 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 (Open Shift).

They will play a leading role in supporting production systems, preventing outages, and improving system reliability through automation and intelligent monitoring.

Key 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 What Client is Looking For: 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

Required Qualifications:

10 plus years of Platform and production support 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.

In this contingent resource assignment, candidate may:
Consult as an expert to develop or influence initiatives and resources for highly complex business and technical needs across Engineering. Consult on the strategy and resolution of highly complex and unique challenges requiring in-depth evaluation across multiple areas, delivering solutions that are long-term, large-scale and require vision, creativity, innovation, and advanced analytical and inductive thinking. Provide expertise to client senior leadership on innovative Engineering business solutions.

Strategically engage with client personnel.

Required Qualifications:

7 plus years of Engineering…