Devops SRE Lead

Role

Devops SRE Lead

Duration

Long term Contract

Location

Chicago, IL Hybrid

Job Description:

Mandatory Qualifications

• The SRE Mind set: 8-12 years of experience managing high-availability production environment.
• Cloud Native Mastery: Expert-level Kubernetes (GKE/K8s) and Docker. Ability to architect complex Helm charts and manage multi-cluster orchestration.
• Deep Programming: Advanced proficiency in Go or Python is mandatory. You must be able to write custom operators, automation tooling, and interact directly with GCP APIs.
• GCP: Proven experience with Google Cloud Platform.

Infrastructure as Code

Technical Focus Areas

• Intelligence-Driven Ops: Building closed-loop remediation using OpenTelemetry (OTel), Prometheus, and Grafana.
• Experience using Vertex AI or ML-driven logic for anomaly detection is a major plus.
• Zero-Trust Security: Implementing hardware-level security, including TPM integrations, LUKS encryption, and secure MASQUE/TLS tunnels for edge-to-cloud connectivity.
• Edge & Virtualization: (Preferred) Experience with GDC Connected, VM Runtime, or Sym cloud Storage. Strong grasp of Linux internals (kernel tuning, systemd, networking stack).