Role: Site Reliability Engineer
Rate:
Location: Austin, TX (Hybrid 2 days onsite in a week, locals to TX)
Visa: USC/GC/EAD/OPT
Duration: 12+ months
Client:

Must have public sector (state client) at least on 1 project & focus on industry exp. like in this role healthcare

JOB DESCRIPTION/MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS:
Site Reliability Engineer will be responsible for ensuring the reliability, availability, performance, and scalability of production systems by applying software engineering practices to infrastructure and operations. Partners with development teams to build resilient, observable, and automated platforms that meet defined service level objectives (SLOs). Minimum Requirements:
Candidates that do not meet or exceed the minimum stated requirements (skills/experience) will be displayed to customers but may not be chosen for this opportunity. Years Required/Preferred Experience 8 Required experience in systems engineering, DevOps, or site reliability engineering roles 8 Required Strong experience with Linux/Unix systems and system internals 8 Required Proficiency in one or more programming/scripting languages (Python, Go, Java, Bash) 8 Required Experience designing and operating highly available, distributed systems 8 Required Strong knowledge of cloud platforms (AWS, or GCP) and cloud-native services 8 Required Experience with containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes) 8 Required Strong understanding of monitoring, alerting, and logging concepts 8 Required Experience defining and managing SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets 8 Required Familiarity with incident management, root cause analysis (RCA), and postmortems 8 Required Experience integrating security and compliance into operational workflows 4 Preferred Familiarity with observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, Application Insights, Datadog, Splunk) 4 Preferred Experience operating 24x7 production environments with on-call rotations 4 Preferred Experience with chaos engineering and resiliency testing 4 Preferred Experience with feature flags, canary deployments, and progressive delivery 4 Preferred Strong documentation skills for runbooks, dashboards, and operational standards