Senior SRE

Job Title: Senior Site Reliability Engineer Location-Type: Remote Start Date: ASAP Duration: 4-6 Month Contract to Hire Compensation Range: $75-95/hr on W2 ONLY! Benefits: Eligible for Health, Dental, Vision, and 401K Visa Sponsorship: Not eligible for visa sponsorship Job Description: This role serves as a hands-on technical leader responsible for designing, implementing, and advancing reliability across complex, distributed systems in a highly regulated financial services environment. Job Summary • Design and implement reliability strategies across distributed, business-critical systems using automation, observability, and architectural guidance. • Lead root cause analysis investigations on incidents and produce clear documentation of findings and remediation steps. • Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation to support reliable, measurable software delivery. • Advance observability practices across production workloads, including metrics, logging, and distributed tracing. • Influence system design upstream by operating with significant autonomy and engaging stakeholders on reliability outcomes. • Contribute to scripting and automation using Java, Python, or comparable languages to reduce toil and improve system reliability. • Support containerized and serverless workloads across a large-scale AWS environment spanning approximately 1,200 hosts. Minimum Requirements: • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field. • 6-10 years of experience in SRE, software engineering, platform engineering, or DevOps roles. • Deep hands-on experience with AWS across multiple architecture patterns, including containerized applications, EC2, and serverless. • Strong programming skills with professional experience in Java and/or Python for scripting and automation. • Proven experience with observability tooling covering metrics, logs, and tracing. • Solid experience with CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation, and root cause analysis investigation and documentation. • Demonstrated ability to operate effectively in complex, regulated enterprise environments. Preferred Qualifications: • Experience with Infrastructure as Code, particularly CloudFormation. • Familiarity with application frameworks such as Spring, Spring Boot, React, or Angular, and application servers such as Tomcat, Netty, Node.js, or Next.js. • Experience with relational and non-relational databases and associated ORM frameworks or drivers. • Familiarity with ITSM tools such as ServiceNow or similar platforms, and ITIL-aligned change and release processes. • Experience working in Agile or Scrum delivery environments. • Knowledge of security compliance frameworks such as ISO 27001 or SOC 2.