Brooksource

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DevOps / Site Reliability Engineer Contract to Hire Remote $70-75/hr Overview We are seeking a highly skilled DevOps/Site Reliability Engineer to support, enhance, and scale our continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) ecosystem. This role is ideal for an engineer with hands-on experience in cloud-native environments, automation, observability, and modern release management. The ideal candidate will play a key role in ensuring our systems are reliable, secure, and able to support rapid development and deployment cycles. Key Responsibilities • Design, implement, and optimize CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions to enable rapid, stable, and automated application delivery. • Manage and maintain AWS cloud infrastructure with a focus on high availability, security, performance, and scalability. • Deploy, operate, and troubleshoot applications running on Kubernetes (K8s), including managing cluster lifecycle and workload orchestration. • Implement GitOps workflows using Flux to support automated deployments, environment consistency, and version-controlled infrastructure changes. • Develop Python scripts, automation tools, and operational utilities to streamline deployments and reduce manual processes. • Manage and optimize systems running on Amazon Linux 2023 (AL2023), including configuration management, security hardening, and system-level maintenance. • Build, maintain, and improve observability tooling such as logging, metrics, dashboards, and alerting to ensure system reliability and traceability. • Collaborate with development, QA, and product teams to strengthen release processes and enforce best DevOps and SRE practices. • Troubleshoot production incidents, perform root-cause analysis, and implement long-term corrective actions. • Advocate for and implement infrastructure-as-code (IaC) principles to ensure consistent and repeatable environment provisioning. Required Qualifications • 3–7+ years of experience in DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, or cloud engineering. • Strong hands-on experience with AWS services (EC2, EKS, IAM, VPC, CloudWatch, S3, etc.). • Solid experience deploying and managing applications in Kubernetes environments. • Proficiency with Flux or similar GitOps tools such as ArgoCD. • Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions. • Strong Python scripting and automation capabilities. • Experience administering and optimizing Amazon Linux 2023 systems. • Strong understanding of networking fundamentals, cloud security best practices, and cloud-native architectures. • Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform or CloudFormation is a plus. • Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills in fast-paced engineering environments. Preferred Skills • Experience with containerization technologies such as Docker. • Knowledge of SRE concepts including SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, and reliability engineering principles. • Experience with monitoring and observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, or Datadog. • Familiarity with automated testing frameworks integrated into CI/CD workflows. • Experience working with multi-account AWS environments and GitOps-driven infrastructure models. Eight Eleven Group (Brooksource) provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, citizenship, disability, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, amnesty or status as a covered veteran in accordance with applicable federal, state, and local laws. Pay: $70.00 - $75.00 per hour Expected hours: 40 per week Benefits: • Dental insurance • Health insurance • Vision insurance Work Location: Remote