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Job Title: Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) | No DevOps | Work Location: Atlanta, GA/ Frisco, TX (Hybrid from Day 1) (Need Only Locals) Duration: Long Term Contract Job Description: SREs with experience in Kubernetes and cloud platforms. Strong communication skills are essential since this team will need to interact with multiple application teams and, at times, even VPs during critical issues. High expectations are set for these resources, so we need top-quality candidates with both technical skills and excellent communication abilities Job Summary: We are seeking an experienced Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) with advanced DevOps expertise to help build, scale, and maintain our infrastructure and services. You will play a critical role in ensuring high availability, performance, scalability, and security of our production systems, while enabling continuous deployment and rapid delivery of features to our customers. Key Responsibilities: Design, build, and maintain reliable, scalable, and secure cloud-based infrastructure (AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform). Develop and improve observability using monitoring, alerting, logging, and tracing tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Datadog, etc.). Automate repetitive tasks and infrastructure using Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform, CloudFormation, Pulumi). Create and maintain CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, ArgoCD, etc.) to support fast and safe delivery. Lead incident response, root cause analysis, and postmortems to ensure high uptime and rapid recovery. Optimize system performance, reliability, and cost-effectiveness through proactive monitoring and tuning. Collaborate with software engineering teams to define SLAs/SLOs and improve service reliability. Implement and maintain security best practices across environments (e.g., secrets management, IAM, firewalls, etc.). Maintain disaster recovery plans, backups, and high-availability strategies. Qualifications: Required: 5+ years of experience as an SRE, DevOps Engineer, or similar role. Proficiency in scripting and automation (Bash, Python, Go, etc.). Strong experience with containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes, Helm). Solid understanding of Linux systems administration and networking fundamentals. Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform). Experience with IaC tools like Terraform or CloudFormation. Familiarity with GitOps and modern deployment practices. Hands-on experience with observability tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog). Strong troubleshooting and incident response skills. Preferred: Experience in a high-traffic, microservices-based architecture. Exposure to service meshes (Istio, Linkerd). Certifications (AWS Certified DevOps Engineer, CKA, etc.) Experience with security automation and compliance (e.g., SOC2, ISO27001). Soft Skills: Strong communication and collaboration abilities. Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, agile environment. Analytical mindset and proactive approach to problem-solving. A passion for automation, performance, and system design.

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