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Job Title: Senior System Administrator / Site Reliability Engineer (Unix / Linux) Location: Austin, TX (Onsite) Duration: Long Term Mandatory Skills: Linux/Unix Administration, AWS, Azure, Ansible, Terraform, Kubernetes, CI/CD (GitHub Actions/Jenkins), PrometheGrafana, SRE/DevOps Practices Overall Experience: 10+ Years Job Description: The Senior System Administrator / Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) is responsible for ensuring high availability, reliability, and performance of mission-critical systems within the VA s Enterprise Cloud. This role combines system administration, automation, and DevOps practices to support hybrid cloud environments (AWS, Azure, OCI). Responsibilities: Monitor, maintain, and optimize system performance, availability, and scalability. Automate deployments, configuration, and monitoring using Ansible, Terraform, or Puppet. Manage Infrastructure as Code (IaC) for consistent multi-environment setups. Lead incident response, perform root cause analysis, and implement postmortem actions. Build and maintain observability frameworks using Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, or Splunk. Support CI/CD pipelines and improve delivery automation for reliability. Design and operate highly available, fault-tolerant, and self-healing systems. Enforce security and compliance standards (VA 6500, NIST 800-53, FedRAMP, Zero Trust). Collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate SRE best practices into SDLC. Participate in on-call rotations and drive proactive performance optimization. Qualifications: 10+ years in SRE, DevOps, or Systems Engineering roles. Strong Linux/Unix system administration expertise. Proficient in AWS and Azure (production workload deployment). Hands-on with containers/orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes, EKS/AKS). Experience with automation, IaC, and observability tools. Excellent troubleshooting and communication skills. Mandatory Certifications: AWS Certified SysOps Administrator or DevOps Engineer. Azure Administrator or DevOps Engineer Expert. Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA). Education: Bachelor s degree in Computer Science, Electronics Engineering, or related field (or 13+ years equivalent experience). Thanks & Regards, Shanmukha

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