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Job#: 3044961
Job Description:
Job Title: Site Reliability Engineer
Location: Des Moines, IA, Minneapolis, MN, Irving, TX
Work Arrangement: Hybrid (3 Days Onsite / 2 Days Remote)
Contract Length: 18 months
Pay Rate: $69/hr - $74/hr (OT40)
Note: We are not able to consider C2C or third-party submissions
Role Overview
In this contingent resource assignment, you will consult on complex initiatives with broad impact and large-scale planning for Software Engineering. This role functions as a senior Site Reliability Engineer supporting enterprise production environments, platform reliability, observability, automation, incident management, and operational excellence initiatives. The successful candidate will join a platform management organization responsible for L2/L3 production support, focusing on improving reliability, implementing automation, and maturing the team's SRE capabilities.
Key Responsibilities

• Provide L2/L3 support for critical enterprise applications and drive reliability improvements across production environments.
• Lead incident, problem, and change management processes, including root cause analysis and corrective action planning.
• Build and maintain observability solutions using platforms like Splunk, AppDynamics, Grafana, and BigPanda.
• Support CI/CD pipelines and enhance release automation using tools such as Jenkins, Artifactory, UDeploy, and Terraform.
• Develop operational automation and self-healing capabilities, primarily using Ansible, to reduce manual effort.
• Support AI/ML, LLM, and Agentic AI-based application environments, partnering with development teams to manage reliability.
• Manage operational risk and performance across on-prem, hybrid, and public cloud infrastructures.
• Support large-scale Java/.NET applications and assist with troubleshooting for Oracle/MSSQL databases.

Required Qualifications
Experience: 8+ years of experience in Software Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), Production Support, or Platform Engineering.
Technical Skills:

• Expertise with observability platforms (e.g., AppDynamics, Splunk, Grafana, BigPanda, Application Insights).
• Experience with CI/CD tools (e.g., Jenkins, Artifactory, UDeploy, Terraform).
• Automation experience using Ansible.
• Experience supporting AI/ML, LLM, and Agentic AI platforms in production.
• Experience with L2 level troubleshooting using Unix commands.
• Familiarity with leading large-scale production support using ITIL practices.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in enterprise banking or another highly regulated industry.
• Knowledge of public, hybrid, and on-prem cloud platforms.
• Experience with resilient system design.
• Background in supporting large-scale Java and .NET applications.
• Experience with Oracle and MSSQL database support.

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