Systems Engineer

Our government client is seeking an experienced Systems Engineer on a hybrid 6+ months renewable contract opportunity in Austin, TX / Locals Only.Role: Systems EngineerJob Description8 or more years of experience, relies on experience and judgment to plan and accomplish goals, independently performs a variety of complicated tasks, a wide degree of creativity and latitude is expected.Understands business objectives and problems, identifies alternative solutions, performs studies and cost/benefit analysis of alternatives. Analyzes user requirements, procedures, and problems to automate processing or to improve existing computer system: Confers with personnel of organizational units involved to analyze current operational procedures, identify problems, and learn specific input and output requirements, such as forms of data input, how data is to be; summarized, and formats for reports. Writes detailed description of user needs, program functions, and steps required to develop or modify computer program. Reviews computer system capabilities, specifications, and scheduling limitations to determine if requested program or program change is possible within existing system.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 RequirementsII. CANDIDATE SKILLS AND QUALIFICATIONSCandidates 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 standardsVector Consulting, Inc., (Headquartered in Atlanta) is an IT Talent Acquisition Solutions firm committed to delivering results. Since our founding in 1990, we have been partnering with our customers, understanding their business, and developing solutions with a commitment to quality, reliability and value. Our continuing growth has been and continues to be built around successful relationships that are based on our organization's operating philosophy and commitment to ** People, Partnerships, Purpose and Performance - THE VECTOR WAYwww.vectorconsulting.com“Celebrating 30 years of service.”