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# Core Platform Engineer/Systems SRE

- **Company:** LTD Global
- **Location:** Sunnyvale, CA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Temporary contract
- **Skills:** Cloud Computing, Computer Programming, Continuous Integration, Linux, File Systems, Distributed Data Store, Memory Management, Python (Programming Language), Kernel Debuggers, Linux Kernel, Reliability Engineering, Ansible, Gitlab-ci, Kubernetes, Bare Metal, Terraform
- **Published:** September 3, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.dice.com/job-detail/43bd6d2f-ab93-4c54-8ff0-968cfda88397

## About the Role

* 5+ years of experience in deep Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) or Linux Systems Engineering.
 * Practical understanding of Linux kernel internals (scheduler, memory allocation, driver subsystems, kdump).
 * Strong programming proficiency in Python, Go, or similar languages.
 * Proven incident command experience driving post-mortems and cross-functional RCA.
 * Hands-on experience with IaC (Terraform, Ansible), container orchestration (Kubernetes), and TCP/IP network programming.
 * Working knowledge of distributed storage systems (object, block, and/or file storage).

## Description

* Drive incident response drills, post-mortems, and root cause analysis (RCA) across the bare-metal and cloud infrastructure stack.
 * Review system performance metrics and overnight alerts, triaging anomalies before they impact operations.
 * Build observability layers from the ground up-defining SLIs/SLOs, eliminating monitoring gaps, and establishing proactive alerting strategies.
 * Perform system-level diagnostics and kernel debugging (kernel panic analysis, kdump, memory allocation, and CPU scheduling issues).
 * Write production-grade automation and infrastructure tooling in Python or Go.
 * Automate bare-metal provisioning and cloud orchestration using Terraform, Ansible, Kubernetes, and CI/CD tools (GitLab CI, AWX).


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