Site Reliability Engineer

Contract rate: $70–$75 per hour. Duration: 6 months with possible extension.

About the role

We are looking for an experienced Site Reliability Engineer to strengthen our team’s platform engineering and operational capabilities. You will play a key role in supporting Kubernetes infrastructure managed through Rancher, improving system reliability and automation, and advancing infrastructure-as-code and GitOps practices across our environment.

Responsibilities

• Maintain and enhance Kubernetes platforms across on-premises and cloud environments, ensuring reliability, scalability, and operational efficiency.
• Support provisioning, upgrades, troubleshooting, and lifecycle management of Kubernetes clusters managed through Rancher.
• Provide deep technical expertise in Linux-based systems, including performance tuning, troubleshooting, automation, and operational support.
• Develop and maintain infrastructure-as-code solutions to standardize and automate platform deployment and management, with a preference for Cluster API (CAPI)-based approaches.
• Support and improve GitOps workflows using ArgoCD to manage cluster and application configuration in a consistent, auditable manner.
• Work closely with developers, scientists, and infrastructure teams to deliver reliable platform services and translate operational needs into sustainable engineering solutions.
• Identify opportunities to improve platform resilience, observability, security, and maintainability through automation and modern SRE practices.

Requirements

• 5+ years of professional experience in site reliability engineering, platform engineering, DevOps, or systems engineering roles.
• Hands-on experience operating and supporting Kubernetes platforms in production environments.
• Strong experience managing Kubernetes clusters in both on-premises and cloud-based environments.
• Strong Linux systems administration skills, including troubleshooting, scripting, networking, and system performance analysis.
• Experience with Rancher for Kubernetes cluster management and platform operations.
• Experience implementing infrastructure-as-code solutions for platform provisioning and lifecycle management.
• Demonstrated success working in Agile teams (Scrum, Kanban).

Skills

• Kubernetes: Cluster operations, upgrades, networking, storage, troubleshooting, and workload support.
• Platform Management: Rancher or similar Kubernetes management platforms.
• Linux: Advanced administration of Linux/Unix systems.
• Infrastructure as Code: Strong IaC experience; Cluster API (CAPI) preferred.
• GitOps/CI-CD: ArgoCD, Git version control, and deployment automation practices.
• Scripting/Automation: Bash, Python, or similar scripting languages for automation and operational tooling.

Preferred Experience

• Hybrid infrastructure spanning on-premises and public cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP).
• Kubernetes ecosystem tooling for observability, logging, monitoring, and alerting.
• Security best practices for Kubernetes and Linux platforms.
• Supporting scientific research environments, high-performance computing, or computational science workflows.
• CI/CD pipeline development and platform automation patterns.

Qualifications

BS in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or related field preferred; or equivalent professional experience.

About Us

US Tech Solutions is a global staff augmentation firm providing a wide range of talent on-demand and total workforce solutions. To learn more, visit www.ustechsolutions.com.