Mid-Level Site Reliability Engineer

About

One of Insight Global’s customers is looking to onboard a Mid‑Level Site Reliability Engineer with strong expertise in modern DevOps practices, cloud infrastructure, observability, and platform security. This role partners directly with product teams to support deployments, build reliable systems, and strengthen platform capabilities across Kubernetes, AWS, and CI/CD pipelines. This individual will be responsible for maintaining and optimizing AWS‑based Kubernetes environments, ensuring reliability and security, building, maintaining, and enhancing CI/CD pipelines (ArgoCD, GitOps), and implementing observability using OpenTelemetry. This is a 6‑month contract with the possibility of conversion and will be on‑site 5 days a week in Irvine, CA.

Responsibilities

• Maintain and optimize AWS‑based Kubernetes environments.
• Ensure reliability and security of platform capabilities.
• Build, maintain, and enhance CI/CD pipelines (ArgoCD, GitOps).
• Implement observability using OpenTelemetry.
• Partner directly with product teams to support deployments and build reliable systems.

Requirements

Required Skills & Experience

• 4–6 years of SRE/DevOps engineering experience
• Kubernetes platform engineering (multi‑cluster, deployment, troubleshooting)
• AWS experience (GCP/Azure nice to have)
• CI/CD with ArgoCD and GitOps workflows
• Infrastructure as Code using Terraform & Helm
• OpenTelemetry for metrics, logs, and tracing
• Strong scripting with Python
• Experience supporting monitoring, reliability, and performance across distributed systems

Nice to Have Skills & Experience

• Prometheus or Grafana
• Multi‑cloud familiarity
• Experience with Kafka or event streaming platforms

Benefits

Benefit packages for this role will start on the 1st day of employment and include medical, dental, and vision insurance, as well as HSA, FSA, and DCFSA account options, and 401k retirement account access with employer matching. Employees in this role are also entitled to paid sick leave and/or other paid time off as provided by applicable law.

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