DevOps SRE Engineer

Job Title: DevOps / SRE Engineer

Location: New Jersey (Hybrid/On-site)

Full-time

About the Role:

We are seeking an experienced DevOps / Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) with 5 7 years of hands-on experience in cloud infrastructure automation CI/CD and container orchestration. The ideal candidate has strong expertise with Docker Kubernetes Jenkins Maven and cloud platforms such as AWS or Azure. You will play a critical role in building scaling and maintaining highly available secure and reliable systems that support enterprise applications.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins Maven GitHub Actions or Azure DevOps.
• Build and manage containerized applications using Docker and orchestrate workloads with Kubernetes (EKS AKS or self-managed clusters).
• Automate infrastructure provisioning and configuration using IaC tools such as Terraform CloudFormation or ARM templates.
• Manage cloud infrastructure on AWS or Azure including compute networking storage security and monitoring services.
• Ensure high availability reliability scalability and resilience of production systems following SRE principles.
• Implement monitoring log management and alerting using tools like Prometheus Grafana ELK CloudWatch or Azure Monitor.
• Collaborate with development teams to improve deployment processes and application performance.
• Troubleshoot infrastructure networking and build pipeline issues across the stack.
• Support on-call rotation and incident response ensuring quick resolution and RCA documentation.
• Drive automation across operations to reduce manual processes and operational toil.

Required Qualifications:

• 5 7 years of hands-on experience as a DevOps Engineer SRE Cloud Engineer or similar role.
• Strong experience with Docker and containerization best practices.
• Hands-on expertise with Kubernetes (EKS AKS GKE or on-prem k8s).
• Proven experience building CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins Maven and Git-based workflows.
• Proficiency with AWS or Azure cloud environments and cloud-native services.
• Strong background in Linux system administration security networking fundamentals and shell scripting.
• Experience implementing IaC using Terraform CloudFormation or ARM/Bicep.
• Familiarity with logging/monitoring tools: Prometheus Grafana ELK Splunk CloudWatch Azure Monitor etc.
• Strong analytical troubleshooting and performance tuning skills.
• Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments.

Preferred Skills:

• Experience with service mesh technologies (Istio Linkerd).
• Knowledge of Kubernetes Operators Helm charts and GitOps tools (ArgoCD Flux).
• Familiarity with secrets management tools such as HashiCorp Vault or AWS Secrets Manager.
• Experience with incident management and SRE best practices (SLIs SLOs error budgets).
• Knowledge of security best practices for CI/CD cloud and containerized environments.

Education:

Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science Information Systems Engineering or related field (or equivalent practical experience).