Sr. Site Reliability Engineer

* 24-month contract with potential to convert*

Hybrid: 4x a week onsite in Seattle, WA

Optomi, in partnership with our premier client, is seeking a highly skilled Site Reliability Engineer to support a growing portfolio of enterprise platforms, including AI-driven initiatives, automation services, and next-generation observability and data platforms. This role will focus heavily on Kubernetes-based infrastructure, platform reliability, automation, and operational scalability across complex distributed environments.

The ideal candidate will bring deep hands-on expertise in Kubernetes, infrastructure automation, and platform engineering while also serving as a technical leader capable of influencing engineering direction, reliability standards, and operational best practices across teams.

• Design, support, and optimize highly available cloud and containerized platform environments.
• Lead operational reliability initiatives across distributed systems and Kubernetes-based infrastructure.
• Implement and maintain monitoring, observability, telemetry, and alerting solutions for platform health and performance.
• Drive capacity planning, performance optimization, and SLA/SLO reliability objectives.
• Build and enhance infrastructure automation and Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) frameworks.
• Develop reusable CI/CD pipeline components, automation modules, and internal platform tooling.
• Collaborate with software engineering, architecture, security, and infrastructure teams to improve scalability, resiliency, and deployment efficiency.
• Troubleshoot complex infrastructure, networking, and application performance issues across large-scale environments.
• Contribute to technical documentation, architecture standards, operational procedures, and engineering best practices.
• Evaluate and leverage AI-assisted engineering and automation tools to improve development and operational workflows.

• 5+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, Platform Engineering, Infrastructure Engineering, or Software Engineering.
• 5+ years of systems administration experience supporting large-scale enterprise environments.
• 5+ years of experience automating infrastructure and operational processes.
• 3+ years of experience building developer-facing platforms, tooling, or internal engineering services.
• Experience designing reusable infrastructure modules, libraries, templates, or shared services used across multiple teams.
• Strong experience operating within large enterprise organizations supporting cross-functional engineering initiatives.
• Excellent written communication skills with the ability to produce technical documentation, architecture proposals, and engineering guides.

• Deep hands-on expertise with Kubernetes and containerized infrastructure.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems, cloud platforms, and infrastructure reliability engineering.
• Extensive Linux administration, troubleshooting, and performance optimization experience.
• Strong experience with Infrastructure-as-Code and automation tools such as Terraform, Open Tofu, Ansible, or similar technologies.
• Experience implementing and managing CI/CD pipelines using platforms such as Git Lab CI/CD, Git Hub Actions, or equivalent tools.
• Strong understanding of monitoring, observability, telemetry, and logging practices.

• Experience with cloud-native technologies and container platforms.
• Familiarity with Docker and container lifecycle management.
• Solid understanding of networking fundamentals including HTTP, TLS, SSH, DNS, virtual networking, and load balancing.
• Experience integrating security and compliance scanning tools into CI/CD workflows.
• Experience deploying and managing infrastructure programmatically through APIs and SDKs.
• Ability to implement instrumentation, monitoring, and telemetry across applications and infrastructure.
• Familiarity with API design principles and developer platform integration patterns.
• Strong troubleshooting and root cause analysis skills for complex system and performance issues.