Senior Site Reliability Engineer - 1292705

Location: Santa Ana, CA

Position Type: Contract to Hire

Salary/Pay: $65 - $70 per hour

We are unable to sponsor at this time

Our client, a renowned Fortune 500 firm consistently ranked among Fortune 100's best companies to work for, offers exciting career growth prospects, a favorable work-life balance, and a renowned work culture. If you're a Senior Site Reliability Engineer seeking these benefits, this role may be a perfect fit for you. They are seeking to hire a Senior Site Reliability Engineer on a contract-to-hire basis.

As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer, your responsibilities include:

• Monitoring and assessing the availability and health of systems and environments, making recommendations to improve services.
• Developing and implementing monitoring and recovery tools to ensure optimal delivery and resilience.
• Collaborating with partner groups to establish Service Level Objectives, Indicators, and Error Budgets.
• Providing expert operational support and engineering for multiple large-scale distributed software applications.
• Leading the development and implementation of departmental automation processes and procedures.
• Acting as a technical point of contact for internal and external customers, offering guidance and support for application and service delivery.
• Advising development and engineering teams on automation and optimization of service availability, scalability, performance, monitoring, and alerting.
• Participating in technical evaluations and proof of concept programs to evaluate and introduce new technologies and tools.
• Being available for on-call support during off-duty hours on a rotating schedule, including weekends and holidays

To be successful in this role, you should have the following:

• Strong understanding of cloud services and architecture, including AWS and Azure.
• Experience with distributed systems (architectures, micro-services, high availability) and proficiency in large-scale enterprise environments.
• Knowledge of container computing, including Docker, Kubernetes, and Service Mesh.
• Ability to build and configure AWS and Azure services, such as LAMBDA and Azure Functions.
• Understanding of proxies and load balancing, including Nginx, HAProxy, and Envoy.
• In terms of monitoring and tools:
• Knowledge of log event aggregation, metric collection, application monitoring, and event handling, including Elastic, SCOM, AppD, Uptrends, AppInsights, and Cloudwatch.
• Strong proficiency in Windows and UNIX/Linux technologies, as well as network triaging, packet loss, and routing.
• Ability to create Service Level Objectives (SLO), Service Level Indicators (SLI), Error Budgeting, and Burn Rates.
• For development:
• Knowledge of "everything as code" methodologies for configuration, infrastructure, and orchestration.
• Familiarity with programming languages, such as .Net, C#, C++, and Python.
• Experience with continuous integration tools, including Chef, Ansible, Jenkins, and Stash/Git.
• Experience with configuration management tools, such as Puppet, Hiera, Terraform, Terragrunt, and Ansible.
• Ability to use scripting languages or other tools for workflow automation.
• Additionally:
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills to troubleshoot infrastructure issues, potentially across multiple technical disciplines.
• Ability to work effectively as a member of a multi-cultural, multi-location team.

So if you are a Senior Site Reliability Engineer looking for a new role with an outstanding company, apply today!