Site Reliability Engineer/Devops Engineer

HonorVet Technologies • Contract • Austin, TX, US • $80 - $85 / hour • 2d ago

HonorVet Technologies. We're a veteran-owned IT staffing firm, ISO 9001, and ISO 27001 certified, working with federal agencies, state governments, and Fortune 500 enterprise clients across the US. What makes us different isn't a tagline; it's the way we work. We don't forward resumes and hope for the best. We take the time to understand where a professional like you is headed and only reach out when we genuinely believe there's a fit worth exploring.

Role: Site Reliability Engineer/Devops Engineer
Location: Austin, TX 78701 (Hybrid - 3 days onsite per week)
Engagement type: Contract - 6 Months

Job Description:

Site Reliability Engineer will be responsible for ensuring the reliability, availability, performance, and scalability of production systems by applying software engineering practices to infrastructure and operations. Partners with development teams to build resilient, observable, and automated platforms that meet defined service level objectives (SLOs).

Required Experience:

8 years of experience in systems engineering, DevOps, or site reliability engineering roles
8 years of Strong experience with Linux/Unix systems and system internals
8 years of Proficiency in one or more programming/scripting languages (Python, Go, Java, Bash)
8 years of Experience designing and operating available, distributed systems.
8 years of Strong knowledge of cloud platforms (AWS, or GCP) and cloud-native services
8 years of Experience with containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes)
8 years of Strong understanding of monitoring, alerting, and logging concepts
8 years of Experience defining and managing SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets.
8 years of Familiarity with incident management, root cause analysis (RCA), and postmortems
8 years of Experience integrating security and compliance into operational workflows.

Preferred Experience:

4 years of Familiarity with observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, Application Insights, Datadog, Splunk)

4 years of Experience operating 24x7 production environments with on-call rotations
4 years of Experience with chaos engineering and resiliency testing
4 years of Experience with feature flags, canary deployments, and progressive delivery
4 years of Strong documentation skills for runbooks, dashboards, and operational standards