Site Reliability Engineer (Only W2)

Job Title: Senior AWS DevOps Engineer / Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

Location: Erie, PA

Duration: 12+ Months

Overview

We are seeking an experienced Senior AWS DevOps Engineer / Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) with 7+ years of experience designing, automating, deploying, and supporting cloud infrastructure and containerized applications.

The ideal candidate will have strong hands-on experience with AWS, Kubernetes, EKS, Terraform, Jenkins, ArgoCD, Ansible, Docker, CI/CD, monitoring, observability, and production support. This role focuses on building scalable cloud infrastructure, improving system reliability, automating deployments, and supporting Kubernetes platforms in enterprise production environments.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain scalable AWS cloud infrastructure using Terraform and CloudFormation.
• Manage AWS services including EC2, VPC, EKS, ECS, RDS, S3, Lambda, IAM, Route 53, CloudWatch, CloudFront, Auto Scaling, ELB/ALB, SNS/SQS, and API Gateway.
• Deploy, upgrade, and support Kubernetes/EKS clusters and containerized applications.
• Implement GitOps and continuous delivery practices using ArgoCD, Helm, Jenkins, Harness, and Travis CI.
• Develop automation solutions using Ansible, Bash, and Python.
• Configure Kubernetes resources including Deployments, StatefulSets, Services, ConfigMaps, Secrets, PVs/PVCs, CronJobs, and HPA.
• Implement traffic management and service routing using Istio and load balancers.
• Monitor infrastructure and applications using Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, CloudWatch, EFK, and Loki.
• Define and track SLIs, SLOs, SLAs, and reliability metrics.
• Troubleshoot production incidents, perform root-cause analysis, and drive permanent remediation.
• Support cloud migration initiatives, including application and database migrations to AWS.
• Implement security best practices using IAM, RBAC, security groups, and network controls.
• Collaborate with development teams to improve deployment, automation, reliability, and operational practices.
• Maintain documentation for infrastructure, deployment processes, and operational procedures.

Required Technical Skills

Cloud& AWS

• AWS, EC2, VPC, EKS, ECS, S3, RDS, Lambda, API Gateway, ELB/ALB, Auto Scaling, Route 53, IAM, CloudWatch, CloudFront, SNS/SQS, EBS, CloudFormation, AWS CLI, AWS DMS.

Containers & Kubernetes

• Kubernetes, Amazon EKS, Docker, Helm, ArgoCD, GitOps, Kubernetes Networking, HPA, RBAC, ConfigMaps, Secrets, StatefulSets, DaemonSets, Persistent Volumes/PVC.

Infrastructure Automation

• Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible, AWX, Bash/Shell Scripting, Python, Configuration Management, Infrastructure Automation.

CI/CD

• Jenkins, Groovy Pipelines, Declarative Pipelines, Harness, Travis CI, Git, GitHub/GitLab, Maven, ArgoCD.

Monitoring & Observability

• Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, CloudWatch, EFK Stack, Elasticsearch, Fluentd/Fluent Bit, Kibana, Loki, Nagios, Alerting, Incident Management, SLI/SLO/SLA.

Operating Systems & Databases

• Linux, Ubuntu, RHEL, CentOS, Unix, Windows, Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, DynamoDB, NoSQL.

Preferred Skills

• OpenShift
• Istio
• Kafka
• Apache NiFi
• GlusterFS
• Okta
• AWS Security & Networking
• Hybrid Cloud Architecture
• Microservices & Serverless Architecture
• Aurora
• CloudFront
• Database Migration
• Jenkins Administration
• Production SRE Practices
• SRE Focus Areas
• Improve application and infrastructure reliability and availability.
• Build proactive monitoring, alerting, and observability solutions.
• Reduce manual operational effort through automation.
• Participate in incident response, postmortems, and corrective action planning.
• Improve deployment stability and reduce production issues.
• Support capacity planning, scalability, and performance optimization.
• Promote SRE and operational best practices across engineering teams.