Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) DevOps Engineer

Aliso Viejo, CA - USA

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 6 hours ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Overview:

TekWissen is a global workforce management provider headquartered in Ann Arbor Michigan that offers strategic talent solutions to our clients world-wide. Our client provider of digital technology and transformation information technology and services

Position: Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) / DevOps Engineer

Location: Aliso Viejo CA

Duration: 11 Months

Job Type: Temporary Assignment

Work Type: Onsite

Job Description

We are seeking a highly experienced SRE / DevOps Engineer to support and scale a Kubernetes-based API Gateway platform built on a Java technology stack.
The role focuses on reliability observability automation and performance while also contributing to POCs around next-generation AI Gateway capabilities.

Key Responsibilities

Platform Reliability & Operations

Own reliability availability scalability and performance of API Gateway services running on Kubernetes
Design and implement SRE best practices including SLIs SLOs SLAs error budgets and incident management
Lead production readiness reviews root cause analysis (RCA) and post-incident improvements
Drive capacity planning performance tuning and resilience testing

Kubernetes & Cloud Engineering

Manage and optimize Kubernetes clusters (EKS / AKS / GKE / On-prem)
Develop and maintain Helm charts manifests and deployment strategies
Implement rollout strategies such as blue-green canary and rolling deployments
Collaborate with development teams to ensure cloud-native design patterns

Observability & Monitoring (Strong Focus)

Build and maintain enterprise-grade observability (O11y) solutions:
Prometheus & Grafana for metrics and dashboards
Splunk for centralized logging and alerting
OpenTelemetry for distributed tracing
Define actionable alerts and dashboards for platform and application health
Improve MTTR through better visibility and automation

CI/CD & Automation

Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins GitHub Actions GitLab CI etc.)
Automate infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (Terraform CloudFormation etc.)
Develop automation scripts using Python Bash or Groovy

Security & Compliance

Implement DevSecOps practices including secrets management image scanning and RBAC
Work closely with security teams on vulnerability remediation and compliance controls

Innovation & POCs

Actively contribute to POCs for AI Gateway / Intelligent API Gateway initiatives
Evaluate and prototype integrations with AI/ML-driven routing observability and security features
Stay current with emerging SRE cloud and AI gateway technologies

Required Skills & Qualifications

Must Have

7 8 years of experience in SRE / DevOps / Platform Engineering
Strong hands-on experience with Kubernetes in production environments
Solid understanding of Java-based applications and JVM performance considerations
Deep expertise in Splunk Prometheus Grafana and observability practices
Experience operating API Gateway platforms (Kong Apigee NGINX Istio etc.)
Strong Linux fundamentals and networking knowledge (TCP/IP DNS HTTP TLS)
Experience with cloud platforms (AWS / Azure / GCP)

Nice to Have

Experience with OpenTelemetry and distributed tracing
Exposure to AI Gateway / Intelligent Traffic Management concepts
Experience with service mesh (Istio / Linkerd)
Certification in Kubernetes (CKA / CKAD) or Cloud platforms

Soft Skills

Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills
Ability to work cross-functionally with developers architects and security teams
Proactive mindset with a passion for automation and reliability
Good documentation and communication skills

TekWissen Group is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity.

Overview: TekWissen is a global workforce management provider headquartered in Ann Arbor Michigan that offers strategic talent solutions to our clients world-wide. Our client provider of digital technology and transformation information technology and services Position: Senior Si...