Job Description

This range is provided by Cypress HCM. Your actual pay will be based on your skills and experience talk with your recruiter to learn more.

Base pay range

$70.00/hr -90.00/hr

Site Reliability Engineer

As a Site Reliability Engineer (Contractor), you will be a handson contributor, focused on supporting and improving the reliability of our AWS cloud infrastructure. You will apply core SRE principles to automate operational tasks, monitor system health, and participate in incident response. This role is executionfocused, supporting the senior team in ensuring our services are available and performant while maintaining an awareness of healthcare compliance standards.

The contract extension beyond 3 months will be on the need basis.

Responsibilities

• Assist in deploying, configuring, and maintaining highly available AWS infrastructure components.
• Execute Infrastructure as Code (IaC) changes using tools like Terraform to provision and configure resources.
• Support the operations and maintenance of existing containerized applications running on platforms like Kubernetes and Docker.

AWS Networking Support

• Assist the senior team in maintaining the security and efficiency of our core AWS network topologies (e.g., VPCs, subnets, routing).
• Perform basic configuration and maintenance of cloud load balancing (ALB/NLB) and DNS services (Route 53).
• Support the enforcement of network security policies and assist in routine network troubleshooting for connectivity or latency issues.

Site Reliability & Automation

• Identify and automate routine manual operational tasks using scripting (Python/Bash) to improve efficiency and reduce toil.
• Participate in blameless postmortems and incident response efforts, focusing on documenting steps taken and assisting with root cause analysis.
• Contribute to the documentation and adherence of established Service Level Objectives (SLOs) and Service Level Indicators (SLIs).

Monitoring & Compliance

• Maintain and use existing monitoring, logging, and alerting systems (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack) to ensure system health.
• Assist in managing and verifying CI/CD pipelines to ensure safe and efficient software releases.
• Support compliance efforts by ensuring operational procedures align with security best practices and regulatory requirements (HIPAA, SOC 2).

Required Qualifications

• 8+ years of handson experience in a DevOps, Cloud Engineering, or SREfocused technical role.
• Solid practical experience with AWS cloud provider services.
• Handson experience with Linux administration and troubleshooting.
• Proficiency in scripting languages such as Python, Bash, etc for automation.
• Solid experience with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform.
• Experience with containerization technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes.
• Experience with monitoring systems like Prometheus, Grafana, AWS Cloud Watch.
• Experience with writing SQLs on PostgreSQL DB.
• Working understanding of core networking principles (VPC, routing, load balancing).
• Basic understanding of security and compliance requirements in a regulated industry (e.g., healthcare, finance).

Preferred Qualifications

• Relevant certifications such as AWS Certified SysOps Administrator or AWS Certified Developer.
• Familiarity with CI/CD tools (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab CI).

Compensation: $72 - $90 per hour

ID# 2508

Seniority level

MidSenior level

Employment type

Contract

Job function

Information Technology

Industries

Insurance and Technology, Information and Media

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