lead SRE / DevOps Engineer

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Job Title: lead SRE / DevOps Engineer

Location: Pittsburgh, PA (Hybrid )

Duration: Long term

Tax Term:- W2

Job Summary

We are looking for a Lead Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) / DevOps Engineer to design, build, and maintain highly scalable, reliable, and secure infrastructure systems.

This role focuses on automation, observability, incident management, and cloud-native architecture, while also leading engineering best practices across teams.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the design and implementation of scalable cloud infrastructure
• Drive automation (IaC, CI/CD pipelines) to reduce manual effort
• Own system reliability, uptime, and performance optimization
• Implement monitoring, alerting, and observability solutions
• Manage incident response, root cause analysis, and post-mortems
• Collaborate with development, operations, and security teams
• Define and track SLIs/SLOs and system health metrics
• Mentor engineers and promote DevOps/SRE best practices

Required Skills

Core Technologies

• Cloud platforms: AWS / Azure / Google Cloud Platform
• Containers & orchestration: Docker, Kubernetes
• Infrastructure as Code: Terraform, CloudFormation
• CI/CD tools: Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions

Scripting & DevOps

• Programming: Python, Bash
• Automation & configuration: Ansible, Chef, Puppet

Monitoring & Observability

• Tools: Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack, Dynatrace

Architecture

• Microservices & distributed systems
• High-availability and fault-tolerant system design

Experience Requirements

• 5 10+ years in DevOps / SRE / Infrastructure roles
• Proven experience with:
• Large-scale distributed systems
• Cloud infrastructure automation
• Incident management & production support
• Experience working in Agile environments
• Leadership or mentoring experience preferred

Qualifications

• Bachelor's/Master's in Computer Science or related field
• Preferred certifications:
• AWS / Azure / Google Cloud Platform certifications
• Kubernetes / Terraform certifications