Site Reliability Engineer III

Job Title:

Site Reliability Engineer III

Employment Type:

Contract-to-Hire Workplace Type:
Hybrid - 2 days per week onsite in Reston, VA Position Overview Please note this role is not open to sponsorship, visa transfer, or C2C partnership with a vendor.

Our client, a global leader in internet infrastructure services, is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer III to join the team responsible for building, operating, and maintaining a private cloud platform that supports mission-critical services. This role is ideal for a hands-on infrastructure professional who enjoys solving complex technical challenges, improving platform reliability, and working in a large-scale Linux environment.

The team values engineers who demonstrate initiative, strong troubleshooting capabilities, technical curiosity, and a collaborative mindset. You'll play a key role in maintaining highly available systems while helping drive operational excellence across a critical private cloud environment.

Primary Responsibilities Build, operate, and maintain a private cloud infrastructure platform.

Monitor platform health and respond to operational alerts.

Troubleshoot platform, infrastructure, and user-related issues.

Document troubleshooting processes, resolutions, and operational procedures.

Support platform patching and ongoing maintenance activities.

Ensure compliance with vulnerability management and information security standards.

Help maintain highly available and reliable production services.

Participate in a Tier 3 on-call support rotation (approximately once per month after onboarding and training).Collaborate with engineering and operations teams to improve platform stability, automation, and service reliability.

Required Skills5+ years of relevant IT infrastructure, systems administration, or site reliability engineering experience.

Strong Linux systems administration experience in a large-scale production environment.

Experience administering Linux distributions such as RHEL, CentOS, and/or Ubuntu.

Strong troubleshooting and root-cause analysis skills.

Experience with shell scripting and automation.

Experience with Python and Ansible.

Experience maintaining highly available production services.

Understanding of network protocols and infrastructure fundamentals.

Knowledge of security best practices and vulnerability management processes.

Experience using development and operational tools such as Git Hub and Jira.

Strong written and verbal communication skills.

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, a related technical field, or equivalent combination of education and experience.

Preferred Skills

Experience with Open Stack configuration and administration.

Prior experience developing, operating, or supporting an Open Stack platform in a production environment.

Experience working within private cloud environments.

Additional Linux platform expertise across multiple enterprise distributions.

Why This Opportunity This is an opportunity to support infrastructure that underpins critical internet services used around the world. You'll work alongside experienced engineers responsible for a large-scale private cloud platform, gain exposure to highly available production systems, and contribute to reliability, automation, security, and operational excellence initiatives. The hybrid work model provides a balance of collaboration and flexibility while allowing engineers to make a meaningful impact on core infrastructure services.

Job Type & Location This is a Contract to Hire position based out of Reston, VA.Pay and Benefits The pay range for this position is $55.00 - $70.00/hr individual compensation offered for this position within this range will depend on many factors, including qualifications, skills, relevant experience, job knowledge, geographic location, internal equity, and other pertinent job-related factors.

Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on your job
classification and length of employment. Benefits are subject to change and may be
subject to specific elections, plan, or program terms. If eligible, the benefits
available for this temporary role may include the following:

Medical, dental & vision
Critical Illness, Accident, and Hospital
401(k) Retirement Plan Pre-tax and Roth post-tax contributions available
Life Insurance (Voluntary Life & AD&D for the employee and dependents)
Short and long-term disability
Health Spending Account (HSA)
Transportation benefits
Employee Assistance Program
Time Off/Leave (PTO, Vacation or Sick Leave)
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