Principal Site Reliability Engineer

Washington, AR - USA

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 30+ days ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

The Principal Site Reliability Engineer will be a critical technical leader responsible for driving the operational excellence resilience and security of our core systems for a key Randstad client in the Washington D.C. area. This senior role merges deep expertise in infrastructure automation (IaC) CI/CD architecture and cloud security with the foundational principles of Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) including defining SLOs managing error budgets and leading incident response. You will mentor cross-functional teams implement cost-efficient cloud practices and build the foundational tools and platforms that enable our developers to deliver secure highly available and scalable services with velocity.

Responsibilities

Reliability Engineering & Operations: Define implement and maintain rigorous Service Level Objectives (SLOs) and Service Level Indicators (SLIs) establish effective error budgeting and lead incident response root cause analysis and postmortem processes to ensure continuous service improvement.
Infrastructure Automation: Architect implement and manage secure scalable and repeatable cloud environments leveraging Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) tools such as Terraform Ansible and CloudFormation.
CI/CD Optimization & Security: Design and optimize secure high-performance CI/CD pipelines (e.g. GitHub Actions Jenkins) incorporating advanced deployment techniques like automated rollback canary and blue/green strategies and ensuring artifact validation.
Observability & Telemetry: Develop comprehensive observability solutions including building robust dashboards configuring alerts implementing synthetic checks and maintaining telemetry pipelines (metrics logs traces) to ensure deep visibility into system performance availability and cost.
Security & Compliance Enforcement: Integrate security tooling (SAST DAST SBOM secrets scanning) directly into the deployment lifecycle and enforce security policies-as-code within deployment workflows to maintain strict compliance and a secure posture.
Cost & Capacity Management: Implement tooling and financial practices to proactively monitor cloud cost trends perform right-sizing of infrastructure resources and strategically plan capacity to ensure optimal cost-to-performance ratio and high availability.
Internal Platform Enablement: Design and build reusable internal tools shared playbooks and self-service platforms that significantly enhance developer productivity and enforce consistent high-quality delivery standards across engineering teams.
Mentorship & Technical Leadership: Serve as a senior technical mentor and subject matter expert across platform security and engineering teams establishing and promoting best practices in operational readiness fault tolerance and secure delivery.

Qualifications

Experience:
- Bachelors degree in Computer Science Engineering or a related technical discipline.
- Minimum of 5 years of progressive experience in DevOps Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) or Platform Engineering with proven leadership experience in infrastructure reliability and automation.
- 3 years of direct hands-on experience managing high-availability production environments with modern cloud-native security and observability tooling.
Technical Expertise:
- Deep expertise in a major cloud platform (e.g. AWS Azure GCP) particularly in core services like Compute Networking Identity and Access Management (IAM) and monitoring.
- Proficiency with Infrastructure-as-Code tools specifically Terraform and CloudFormation and container orchestration technologies like Kubernetes and Docker.
- Strong working knowledge of Linux systems and shell scripting.
- In-depth familiarity with observability stacks (e.g. Prometheus Grafana ELK Datadog CloudWatch).
- Demonstrated experience designing implementing and managing CI/CD systems that incorporate security tollgates rollback logic and GitOps patterns.
Skills & Knowledge:
- Strong scripting and programming skills in Python Go or Bash for automation and tooling development.
- In-depth understanding of core SRE practices including incident response SLO/SLA management chaos engineering and capacity modeling.
- Proven track record of creating shared tooling documentation and best practices that drive operational excellence and knowledge transfer across an organization.

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This is a high PRIORITY requisition. This is a PROACTIVE requisition

Background Check : No

Drug Screen : No