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MBR Partners

Core Network Support Engineer

Ashburn, VA · On-site +1

... and network problems. • Provide outage recovery assistance and perform root cause analysis (RCA). • Coordinate with internal engineering, product, and development teams to resolve technical ...

CGI Inc.

Remote Support Engineer, Junior

Arlington, VA · On-site +1

Remote Support Engineer, Junior Category: Service Desk / End User Services Main location: United ... Strong troubleshooting skills, understanding of computer hardware and software, networking basics ...

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What is the difference between Remote Weekend Network Engineer vs Remote Weekend Network Technician?

AspectRemote Weekend Network EngineerRemote Weekend Network Technician
CredentialsNetwork engineering certifications (e.g., CCNA, CompTIA Network+)Basic networking certifications or technical training
Work EnvironmentDesign, troubleshoot, and optimize network systems remotely during weekendsImplement and maintain network hardware/software remotely during weekends
Employer & IndustryTelecommunications, IT service providers, large enterprisesIT support companies, managed service providers, enterprise networks

The Remote Weekend Network Engineer focuses on designing and troubleshooting complex network systems, requiring advanced certifications. In contrast, the Remote Weekend Network Technician handles routine maintenance and support tasks. Both roles operate remotely during weekends but differ in scope and technical requirements.

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Infographic showing various Remote Weekend Network Engineer job openings in Virginia as of August 2026, with employment types broken down into 1% As Needed, 80% Full Time, 14% Part Time, and 5% Contract. Highlights an 92% Physical, 3% Hybrid, and 5% Remote job distribution.

Site Reliability Engineer (OpenSearch) - Remote

Information Consulting Services

Herndon, VA • Remote

$58.50 - $78/hr

Full-time

Posted 15 days ago

Job description

Contract Details

  • Work Mode: 100% Remote (US-based)
  • Location: Herndon, VA
  • Schedule: 40 hours/week
  • Duration: 08/17/2026 08/16/2027
  • Type: Contract with potential to convert to full-time after ~12 months (not guaranteed)

About the Opportunity

Seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to ensure availability, performance, scalability, and security for mission-critical, cloud-hosted search and analytics services built on OpenSearch. You will focus on reliability engineering, operations, automation, and continuous improvement for distributed platforms, working within a diverse, globally distributed team.

Key Responsibilities

  • Provision, build, deploy, monitor, operate, and support cloud services in a global team environment.
  • Architect, build, deploy, and maintain high performance OpenSearch clusters and platforms from the ground up.
  • Optimize OpenSearch for high availability, resiliency, scalability, security, and performance.
  • Monitor and troubleshoot cluster health, node performance, indexing throughput, search latency, shard allocation/replication, and storage utilization.
  • Analyze and resolve operational issues across infrastructure, platform, and application layers; lead incident response, RCA, and remediation.
  • Maintain integrity and security of servers, systems, and OpenSearch platform infrastructure.
  • Support lifecycle activities: installation, configuration, upgrades/patching, backup/restore, and disaster recovery.
  • Develop and maintain monitoring policies, alerting standards, runbooks, and support procedures.
  • Automate testing, deployment, scaling, recovery, and operational workflows for OpenSearch and related cloud services.
  • Plan capacity for compute, memory, storage, and network; partner with engineering to enhance reliability and operational readiness.
  • Support log ingestion, index management, lifecycle/retention, and search performance tuning.
  • Participate in an on-call rotation; support occasional weekend/after-hours needs.

Required Qualifications

  • US citizenship required; dual citizenship not permitted.
  • 8 years of experience in SRE/DevOps/cloud operations with distributed systems.
  • Proven, hands-on experience designing, building, deploying, operating, and optimizing OpenSearch clusters from scratch in production.
  • Expert-level Kubernetes experience (operations, troubleshooting, management, configuration of complex services).
  • Deep OpenSearch administration: cluster architecture, performance tuning, scaling, upgrades, and troubleshooting; index/shard/replica strategy; sizing; snapshot/restore; backup/DR.
  • Strong Linux expertise (SUSE and Ubuntu).
  • Expertise with Git and Concourse (pipeline setup, management, troubleshooting).
  • Experience with Kafka and Zookeeper; strong automation for testing, deployment, scalability, and cloud service management.
  • Experience building/implementing/supporting cloud monitoring and observability; solid knowledge of cloud computing, infrastructure operations, databases, web services, networking, virtualization, and internet protocols.
  • Security fundamentals for SaaS multi-tenant application systems; excellent communication and prioritization skills; ability to multitask.

Preferred Qualifications

  • AWS experience (e.g., Route 53, EC2, S3, CloudWatch, DynamoDB, RDS, IAM, ACM, KMS, VPC); experience deploying/operating OpenSearch in AWS.
  • Experience with Cloud Foundry environments.
  • Experience with Jenkins, Chef, and/or Terraform.
  • Experience with Prometheus and Grafana.
  • Background with log ingestion pipelines, index lifecycle management, retention strategies, and search platform security controls.
  • Familiarity with capacity forecasting, performance benchmarking, and resilience testing for distributed search platforms.

Work Environment

  • Collaborative, globally distributed team with cross-training opportunities.
  • Participation in an on-call rotation and occasional after-hours/weekend support.
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