Senior DevOps and SRE Engineer

Title: Senior DevOps and SRE Engineer

Location: Washington DC

Duration: 11 months

Responsibilities

Deployment & Automation Engineering

• Implement maintain and optimize robust CI/CD pipelines utilizing tools such as GitHub Actions AWS CodePipeline and Jenkins.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning and configuration management using Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) tools like Terraform CloudFormation or AWS CDK.
• Design and develop automation scripts and self-service tools to significantly enhance development and operational efficiency.
• Proficiency in multiple programming languages (Python Go Java) to develop automation and troubleshoot applications.

Site Reliability & Observability

• Serve as a production on-call responder leading incident management and orchestrating critical service outages and disaster recovery failover activities.
• Facilitate detailed post-mortem meetings and drive systemic improvement patterns across teams.
• Define monitor and enforce Service Level Indicators (SLIs) Service Level Objectives (SLOs) and Error Budgets.
• Expertly leverage observability tools (Dynatrace AppDynamics ELK Stack Dynatrace strongly preferred) for proactive monitoring and troubleshooting.
• Utilize distributed tracing and context propagation to identify performance bottlenecks and root causes of failures.
• Design and implement custom dashboards and anomaly detectors to generate actionable insights.

Capacity Performance & Cost Management

• Develop sophisticated capacity models and forecasting systems to ensure service scalability.
• Lead cost optimization initiatives identifying and implementing efficiency gains across cloud services.
• Design and execute comprehensive Resiliency and Performance testing frameworks.
• Configure and maintain dynamic auto-scaling policies and thresholds for optimal resource utilization.

Security & Governance

• Lead security incident investigations and execute swift remediation plans.
• Design and implement automated compliance validation and security automation frameworks.
• Drive the implementation of zero-trust architecture patterns within the cloud environment.
• Proficiently apply ITIL framework principles preferably leveraging ITSM tools such as ServiceNow.

Qualifications

Education & Experience

• Bachelors degree in computer science Engineering or a related technical field.
• 5 to 8 years of progressive experience in DevOps Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) or Platform Engineering.
• 3 years of experience maintaining and optimizing high-availability production environments.
• Proven track record of leading complex technical initiatives from conception to completion.

Technical Expertise

• Expert-level knowledge of at least one major cloud platform with AWS strongly preferred.
• Deep expertise in cloud architecture networking and core services.
• High proficiency in IaC tools such as Terraform CloudFormation or AWS CDK.
• Expert-level experience with observability and APM tools with a strong preference for Dynatrace.
• Proficiency in modern programming languages like Python Go or Java.
• Knowledge of relational cloud-native and NoSQL database technologies.

Professional & Leadership Skills

• Strong leadership and mentoring capabilities with the ability to elevate the technical skills of the team.
• Exceptional ability to influence without direct authority across engineering and product teams.
• Excellent technical writing and documentation skills (e.g. RCA development Knowledge articles).
• Ability to maintain flexible availability for on-call duties and to work outside of standard business hours as required for incident response