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# Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) / Platform Engineer

- **Company:** Perfict Global, Inc.
- **Location:** Reston, VA, United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $73,450.0 - $132,775.0
- **Contract:** Temporary to permanent
- **Skills:** Microsoft Azure, Bash Shell, Continuous Integration, Data as a Services, Github, Network Topologies, Identity and Access Management, Python (Programming Language), Key Management, Nginx, Octopus Deploy, OpenShift, Performance Tuning, Role-Based Access Control, Reliability Engineering, Ansible, Prometheus, Datadog, Scripting, Istio, Delivery Pipeline, Grafana, Git Flow, Kubernetes, Hashicorp, Apache Kafka, Terraform, Jenkins, Golang
- **Published:** May 17, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.careerjet.com/jobad/us649014df5ff9be26e88ad57f08aec2ea

## About the Role

* 5+ years hands-on operating and managing Kubernetes and OpenShift clusters.
 * Strong experience with Microsoft Azure (compute, networking, storage, and data services).
 * Proven skills in automation and Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform, Ansible, GitOps).
 * Proficiency with observability tooling (Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana).
 * Scripting/coding ability in Bash, Python, or Go.

Preferred / Stand-Out Skills

 * Experience bridging on-prem and cloud in a hybrid service model (migration, integration, optimization).
 * Expertise with Kafka/AMQ, HashiCorp Vault, and ArgoCD/Jenkins/GitHub Actions.
 * Background leading incident response and postmortems with strong RCA and continuous improvement practices.

Work Model & Team

 * Hybrid: 2 days onsite in Reston, VA; 3 days remote.
 * You'll be part of the IT organization, collaborating daily with developers, data engineers, infrastructure operations, and security.

How to Succeed In This Role

 * You're a hands-on engineer who thrives in regulated, high-impact environments.
 * You favor automation over repetition, and observability over guesswork.
 * You collaborate openly, communicate clearly, and leave systems better than you found them.

## Description

* Operate, tune, and optimize OpenShift/Kubernetes clusters (scheduling, ingress, upgrades, quotas, policies).
 * Stand up and/or refine observability (Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana)-dashboards, alerts, SLOs, runbooks.
 * Map current hybrid topology and critical delivery pipelines; identify toil and prioritize automation (Terraform/Ansible).
 * Begin supporting Azure environments (compute, networking, storage, data services) used by analytics teams.
 * Drive GitOps-first workflows; harden CI/CD with ArgoCD/Jenkins/GitHub Actions and policy-as-code guardrails.
 * Implement or enhance platform services (Vault, Kafka/AMQ, ingress, service mesh) for dev and data teams.
 * Lead incident response and postmortems; institutionalize RCA, blameless learning, and continuous improvement.
 * Advance the hybrid service model-migrations, integrations, reliability/latency tuning, cost and performance optimization.

Day-to-Day Responsibilities

 * Operate and optimize OpenShift/Kubernetes clusters, ingress (e.g., Nginx), and container networking/service mesh.
 * Manage Azure services (compute, VNet, storage, data services) supporting analytics workloads.
 * Build and maintain automated infrastructure with Terraform, Ansible, and GitOps workflows.
 * Implement and evolve observability (Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana): metrics, traces, logs, alerting, SLOs, runbooks.
 * Design, harden, and support delivery pipelines with ArgoCD/Jenkins/GitHub Actions.
 * Provide platform tooling and enablement for application developers, data engineers, and operations teams.
 * Ensure security and access management (HashiCorp Vault, secrets management, least privilege).
 * Lead incident response, coordinate cross-functional resolution, and drive corrective actions and platform improvements.
 * Script or develop tools in Bash, Python, or Go to eliminate toil and improve developer experience.

Tech You'll Work With

 * Kubernetes / OpenShift
 * Azure (compute, networking, storage, and data services)
 * Automation & IaC: Terraform, Ansible, GitOps
 * Observability: Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana
 * Networking & Ingress: Nginx, service meshes, container networking
 * Messaging: Kafka, AMQ
 * Secrets & Access: HashiCorp Vault
 * CI/CD: ArgoCD, Jenkins, GitHub Actions
 * Scripting/Coding: Bash, Python, Go


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