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Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) / Platform Engineer

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Reston · Hybrid Contract Mid Level 3mo ago

About the role

Roles & Responsibilities

  • Operate, tune, and optimize OpenShift/Kubernetes clusters (scheduling, ingress, upgrades, quotas, policies).
  • Stand up and/or refine observability (Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana)—dashboards, alerts, SLOs, runbooks.
  • Map current hybrid topology and critical delivery pipelines; identify toil and prioritize automation (Terraform/Ansible).
  • Begin supporting Azure environments (compute, networking, storage, data services) used by analytics teams.
  • Drive GitOps-first workflows; harden CI/CD with ArgoCD/Jenkins/GitHub Actions and policy-as-code guardrails.
  • Implement or enhance platform services (Vault, Kafka/AMQ, ingress, service mesh) for dev and data teams.
  • Lead incident response and postmortems; institutionalize RCA, blameless learning, and continuous improvement.
  • Advance the hybrid service model—migrations, integrations, reliability/latency tuning, cost and performance optimization.

Day-to-Day Responsibilities

  • Operate and optimize OpenShift/Kubernetes clusters, ingress (e.g., Nginx), and container networking/service mesh.
  • Manage Azure services (compute, VNet, storage, data services) supporting analytics workloads.
  • Build and maintain automated infrastructure with Terraform, Ansible, and GitOps workflows.
  • Implement and evolve observability (Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana): metrics, traces, logs, alerting, SLOs, runbooks.
  • Design, harden, and support delivery pipelines with ArgoCD/Jenkins/GitHub Actions.
  • Provide platform tooling and enablement for application developers, data engineers, and operations teams.
  • Ensure security and access management (HashiCorp Vault, secrets management, least privilege).
  • Lead incident response, coordinate cross-functional resolution, and drive corrective actions and platform improvements.
  • Script or develop tools in Bash, Python, or Go to eliminate toil and improve developer experience.

Tech You’ll Work With

  • Kubernetes / OpenShift
  • Azure (compute, networking, storage, and data services)
  • Automation & IaC: Terraform, Ansible, GitOps
  • Observability: Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana
  • Networking & Ingress: Nginx, service meshes, container networking
  • Messaging: Kafka, AMQ
  • Secrets & Access: HashiCorp Vault
  • CI/CD: ArgoCD, Jenkins, GitHub Actions
  • Scripting/Coding: Bash, Python, Go

Must-Have Qualifications

  • 5+ years hands-on operating and managing Kubernetes and OpenShift clusters.
  • Strong experience with Microsoft Azure (compute, networking, storage, and data services).
  • Proven skills in automation and Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform, Ansible, GitOps).
  • Proficiency with observability tooling (Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana).
  • Scripting/coding ability in Bash, Python, or Go.

Preferred / Stand-Out Skills

  • Experience bridging on-prem and cloud in a hybrid service model (migration, integration, optimization).
  • Expertise with Kafka/AMQ, HashiCorp Vault, and ArgoCD/Jenkins/GitHub Actions.
  • Background leading incident response and postmortems with strong RCA and continuous improvement practices.

Skills

AnsibleArgoCDAzureBashCI/CDDatadogGitOpsGoGrafanaHashiCorp VaultJenkinsKafkaKubernetesNginxOpenShiftPrometheusPythonTerraform

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