#1 Site Reliability Engineer II

About the role

This role requires US citizenship and residence on US soil. It sits within a FedRAMP Moderate-authorised environment, so FedRAMP suitability and US-soil-only eligibility are non-negotiable, not preferred. Eyes on glass. Hands on the pipeline. Real ownership from day one. This isn't a watch-and-wait monitoring seat. Our client needs engineers who can read a Kibana query at 3am, know the difference between a blip and a breach, and act on it, on a FedRAMP-authorised cloud platform that genuinely can't afford downtime. If you're a couple of years into SRE or cloud support and want your next role to open doors into FedRAMP and GovCloud work, this is a strong place to build that experience.

What you'll own

• Real-time monitoring and first-response triage across AWS (Commercial/GovCloud) and EKS infrastructure
• Log-level root cause investigation in Kibana and Elasticsearch — you'll actually dig, not just escalate
• CVE remediation and STIG hardening on your patch, within FedRAMP SLA windows
• Deployment execution and troubleshooting through GitLab CI/CD, ArgoCD, and Argo Workflows

Requirements

• 3+ years in SRE, DevOps, systems administration, or cloud support
• Solid Linux administration (RHEL, Amazon Linux, Ubuntu) and comfort with bash/Python scripting
• Working knowledge of Kubernetes/EKS, AWS core services, and L4/L7 load balancing troubleshooting
• Prometheus, Grafana, and ChatOps-via-Slack experience
• US citizenship and US-soil residency, with genuine availability for overnight/weekend rotational shifts — this is non-negotiable

Benefits

• A defined engagement mid-September through end of March, with clear shift expectations up front
• Competitive W2 hourly rate: $70–$90/hr, with overnight/weekend shift premium built in, DOE
• A genuine reference point for FedRAMP/GovCloud experience on your CV, and a real stepping stone toward Senior SRE
• Real support from a delivery partner that treats contractors like people, not headcount