Site Reliability Engineer; SRE

Job Title: Site Reliability Engineer (SRE).
Location: Scottsdale / Shea, AZ (Hybrid).
Employment Type: Contract (W2 through Zip Staff).

Zip Staff is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to support large-scale enterprise applications for a major healthcare organization.

This is a hybrid role based at the Shea, AZ location and focused on cloud-native operations, observability, automation, and production support across hybrid (on-premises and cloud) environments. Immediate availability is preferred.

• Support production operations and reliability for large-scale, high-performance applications.
• Develop automation scripts and build APM dashboards to monitor end-to-end transaction journeys.
• Implement observability using Open Telemetry (OTEL), distributed tracing, monitoring, and incident management.
• Manage containerized applications in Kubernetes environments (GKE, RKE, or AKS).
• Support cloud migration and containerization initiatives (GCP, AWS, Azure, Rancher, Open Shift, or similar).
• Participate in 24x7 on-call rotations and meet incident-response SLAs.
• Troubleshoot distributed systems, networking, and API gateway issues.
• Partner with engineering and operations teams to improve reliability, automation, and operational excellence.

• 5 years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, Production Operations, or Platform Engineering supporting large-scale applications in hybrid environments.
• 5 years developing automation scripts and building APM dashboards for end-to-end transaction monitoring.
• 3+ years of hands‑on programming in one or more of:
  Go, Python, Java, or Rust.
• Working knowledge of relational and/or No
  
  SQL databases (Oracle, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis, Click House, PL/SQL, or time‑series databases).
• Experience with cloud migration and containerization (GCP, AWS, Azure, Rancher, Open Shift, or similar).
• Experience managing containers in Kubernetes (GKE, RKE, or AKS).
• Strong experience implementing observability (OTEL, distributed tracing, monitoring, incident management).
• Strong networking fundamentals (TCP/IP, HTTP, DNS, load balancing, service mesh).
• Experience participating in 24x7 on‑call rotations and meeting incident SLAs.
• Ability to work hybrid in Scottsdale / Shea, AZ.
• Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without sponsorship now or in the future.

• Experience managing highly available, customer‑facing platforms.
• Hands‑on experience with Splunk, Dynatrace, App Dynamics, Grafana, and/or Prometheus.
• Experience with CI/CD and Agile tools (Rally, Confluence, Dev Ops platforms).
• Knowledge of in‑memory caching, especially Redis.
• Strong troubleshooting across distributed systems and API gateways.
• Experience with Google Cloud services (GCS, Cloud SQL, Spanner, Big Query).
• Experience supporting Hashi Corp Vault.
• Exposure to Vertex AI, Generative AI, or cloud analytics platforms.
• Familiarity with GraphQL frameworks (Apollo, Prisma, or Hasura).

Zip Staff partners with leading organizations to connect skilled technology professionals with high‑impact contract opportunities. We focus on quality matches and long‑term success.