Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Location: Remote

Senior Cloud Engineer
Long term contract- 2+ years
100% remote in the continental US

Our client, a premier national healthcare provider, is currently looking for a Senior Site Reliability Engineer on their Cloud Infrastructure team. You will be helping to maintain, add new features and operate our clients cloud platform that supports the entire organization for a Fortune 1000 company.

The ideal candidate will have strong experience in AWS or Azure DevOps and most of those associated services. The client is looking for strong Kubernetes (EKS/AKS) experience and knowledge of networking within an AWS or Azure Cloud environment. Our client is looking for someone who truly has expertise in cloud engineering and building cloud platforms.
Terraform is heavily used for IaC and that experience is a must have. Since our client is multi-cloud and this team also supports an Azure platform, ADO experience is highly desired but not a must have. Any type of a Computer Science or Object Oriented Coding background is also a preferred skill to have.

Job Responsibilities:

• Stay up-to-date with emerging technologies, frameworks, and industry trends related to payment systems and cloud computing.
• Design and implement microservices-based architecture using domain-driven design principles.
• Utilize Kubernetes for container orchestration and management, ensuring scalability, reliability, and high availability of the payment system.
• Implement robust monitoring, logging, and alerting mechanisms to ensure system performance and availability .
• Develop highly resilient and highly available components for the payment system
• Conduct technology evaluations and provide recommendations for new tools, technologies, and frameworks that can enhance our payment infrastructure.
• Mentor and provide technical guidance to junior team members, fostering a culture of continuous learning and professional growth.

Qualifications:

• Strong experience working within the AWS or Azure cloud as a cloud engineer or DevOps engineer.
• 8+ years of experience in rearchitecting large-scale monolithic applications to cloud-native architectures.
• Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field
• 8+ years of experience with cloud computing platforms with AWS including experience with serverless architectures, containers, and orchestration
• experience with payment industry standards, protocols, and security best practices
• knowledge of load balancing algorithms (will be asked in interview)
• must have worked in an AWS or Azure environment, working heavily with Kubernetes (EKS)/(AKS)
• must know security best practices for containers and clusters
• must know terraform well
• strong experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform)