Job Description

Strategic Staffing Solutions is currently looking for a Site Reliability Engineer, a W2 contract opportunity with one of our largest clients!

This is a W2 contract opportunity, and the candidates should be willing to work on our W2 ONLY, NO C2C.

Top Skills

Platform Ownership & Reliability (SRE):

-Support end-to-end reliability, availability, and performance of the Harness CD platform across non-prod, prod, and BCP environments

-Maintain and report on SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, deployment success rates, and platform health metrics

-Lead incident response, troubleshooting, and RCA for deployment failures, delegate outages, or platform performance issues

-Identify and remediate scaling, performance, and capacity constraints across delegates, pipelines, Kubernetes clusters, and cloud integrations

 Automation & Engineering Excellence:

-Develop automation for provisioning, configuration, scaling, upgrades, and maintenance of Harness components

-Build Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform, Ansible, Helm, or equivalent tools

-Automate common operational tasks including delegate lifecycle, cluster onboarding, secret rotation, and pipeline validation

-Reduce manual work by implementing resilient, repeatable, and self-service automation workflows

 DevOps & CI/CD Integration:

-Maintain and enhance Harness integrations with GitHub, Jenkins, Azure DevOps, Kubernetes/OpenShift clusters, and cloud providers

-Ensure an efficient developer experience through well-optimized pipelines and reliable deployment mechanisms

-Partner with DevOps teams to optimize orchestration strategies (blue/green, canary, rolling)

-Work with Security teams to embed DevSecOps controls such as policy enforcement, governance pipelines, and security checks

 Observability & Monitoring:

-Implement and maintain monitoring, logging, dashboards, and alerting for all Harness components

-Use Splunk, Prometheus, Grafana, AppDynamics, or similar tools to build actionable alerts

-Detect and escalate issues such as delegate saturation, pipeline slowdowns, API failures, and Kubernetes resource constraints

-Support proactive monitoring to reduce mean time to detection and resolution

 Modernization & Continuous Improvement:

-Assist with Harness upgrades, hotfixes, patching, and vendor-recommended lifecycle activities

-Contribute to modernization efforts including containerization, cloud-native deployments, and multi-cloud expansion

-Support resiliency improvements such as BCP validation, backup verification, and BCP readiness

-Evaluate new Harness features, modules on platform capabilities for enterprise usage

 Technical Leadership:

-Act as a technical SME for Harness platform operations and enhancements

-Provide platform guidance, documentation, architecture details, and runbook development

-Partner with senior engineers to improve standards, automation patterns, and operational excellence

 Required Qualifications: Core Technical Skills:

-5 7+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, Platform Engineering, or Cloud Engineering roles

-Hands-on experience with Harness CD

-Strong experience with Kubernetes/OpenShift, Linux, cloud services and deployment best practices

-Solid understanding of CI/CD workflows and software release automation

 SRE & Automation:

-Experience applying SRE concepts such as SLIs/SLOs, error budgets, and operational maturity improvements

-Strong automation/scripting skills using Python, Bash, or PowerShell

-Infrastructure as Code experience with Terraform, Ansible, Helm, or equivalent tooling

Observability & Troubleshooting:

-Experience with observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, ELK, AppDynamics, etc.)

-Strong troubleshooting skills across container, OS, networking, platform, and cloud technology layers

Preferred Qualifications:

-Experience supporting CD platforms at enterprise scale (hundreds of teams, multi-region deployments)

-Experience in cloud-native and hybrid cloud environments (Azure, GCP)

-Familiarity with DevSecOps practices, policy automation frameworks, and governance models

-Experience supporting complex upgrades, platform migrations, or modernization projects

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