Site Reliability Engineer Contract

About the role

Site Reliability Engineer II – San Francisco Bay Area (Hybrid) – 24/7 FedRAMP Operations Rotational Shift – Initial contract through March 27. This role sits within a FedRAMP Moderate‑authorised environment and requires US citizenship and residence on US soil (non‑negotiable).

Responsibilities

• Real‑time monitoring and first‑response triage across AWS (Commercial/GovCloud) and EKS infrastructure
• Log‑level root cause investigation in Kibana and Elasticsearch – dig, don’t 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 of experience 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
• Experience with Prometheus, Grafana, and ChatOps via Slack
• US citizenship and US‑soil residency, with genuine availability for overnight/weekend rotational shifts (non‑negotiable)

Benefits

• Defined engagement: Mid‑September through end of March, with clear shift expectations up front
• Competitive W2 hourly rate: $60‑$90/hr, with overnight/weekend shift premium built in, DOE
• 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