DevOps / Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

This is a remote position.

• Employment Type: Contract
  
• Work Mode: Remote
  
• Location: Offshore
  
• Total Experience Required: 5 to 9 years
  
• Relevant Experience Required: 4+ years of dedicated experience in infrastructure automation, cloud orchestration, and CI/CD pipelines
  
• Mandatory Certification: AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional, Microsoft Certified: DevOps Engineer Expert, or Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
  

• Design, build, and optimize automated CI/CD pipelines across cloud platforms using industry-standard automation servers (e.g., GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, ArgoCD).
  
• Architect and manage infrastructure-as-code (IaC) templates using Terraform or OpenTofu to provision secure, modular, and repeatable multi-environment architectures.
  
• Orchestrate containerized production workloads, configuring cluster scaling, service meshes, network routing policies, and deployment strategies on Kubernetes (EKS/AKS/GKE).
  
• Implement automated monitoring, logging, and alerting systems utilizing observability tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, ELK stack) to actively track platform performance metrics.
  
• Drive system high-availability and fault tolerance efforts, designing disaster recovery plans, automated load balancing parameters, and self-healing cluster scripts.
  
• Manage centralized configuration and secret management systems, securely vaulting database credentials, API tokens, and certificate profiles (e.g., HashiCorp Vault, AWS Secrets Manager).
  
• Participate in on-call rotations and lead incident root-cause analysis (RCA), systematically diagnosing runtime infrastructure failures, performance bottlenecks, and resource leaks.
  

• 5 to 9 years of core systems engineering or software development experience, with 4+ dedicated years actively designing, building, and operating cloud-native production platforms.
  
• Strong technical mastery of Kubernetes cluster administration, Terraform automation layouts, Linux system internals, shell scripting (Bash, Python, or Go), and network protocols.
  
• Deep structural understanding of microservices design, caching mechanics, database scaling limits, and cloud provider API governance.
  
• Mandatory certification: AWS DevOps Professional, Azure DevOps Expert, or CKA.
  

• Prior experience implementing DevSecOps controls (e.g., integrating SAST/DAST tools directly into container build phases).
  
• Experience with GitOps methodologies and progressive delivery mechanisms (e.g., Canary or Blue/Green deployments using Flagger or Istio).
  

• 12+ years of total IT software engineering or operational management background, with 6+ dedicated years acting as a CISO, Director of Security, or Principal Enterprise GRC Advisor.
  
• Strong visionary mastery of modern security trends, zero-trust target states, risk calculation paradigms, and multi-cloud information landscape parameters.
  
• Deep communication execution skills, with a proven history of negotiating security budgets, steering board panels, and handling high-pressure public communication events.
  
• Mandatory certification: CISM or CISSP.
  

• Certified in the Governance of Enterprise IT (CGEIT) or Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) credential.
  
• Prior experience steering complex post-merger information platform integrations or stabilizing security posture profiles during major corporate equity restructurings.