Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Job Title:
Senior Site Reliability Engineer / Dev Ops Engineer

Location: Bothell, WA

Duration: Contract

Term: 6 months

Experience Desired: 7 Years.

• Own reliability, availability, scalability, and performance of API Gateway services running on Kubernetes
• Design and implement SRE best practices including SLIs, SLOs, SLAs, error budgets, and incident management
• Lead production readiness reviews, root cause analysis (RCA), and post-incident improvements
• Drive capacity planning, performance tuning, and resilience testing
• Kubernetes & Cloud Engineering
• Manage and optimize Kubernetes clusters (EKS / AKS / GKE / On-prem)
• Develop and maintain Helm charts, manifests, and deployment strategies
• Implement rollout strategies such as blue-green, canary, and rolling deployments
• Collaborate with development teams to ensure cloud-native design patterns
• Observability & Monitoring (Strong Focus)
• Build and maintain enterprise-grade observability (O11y) solutions:
• Prometheus & Grafana for metrics and dashboards
• Splunk for centralized logging and alerting
• Open Telemetry for distributed tracing
• Define actionable alerts and dashboards for platform and application health
• Improve MTTR through better visibility and automation
• CI/CD & Automation
• Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, Git Hub Actions, Git Lab CI, etc.)
• Automate infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Cloud Formation, etc.)
• Develop automation scripts using Python, Bash, or Groovy
• Security & Compliance
• Implement Dev Sec Ops  practices including secrets management, image scanning, and RBAC
• Work closely with security teams on vulnerability remediation and compliance controls
• Innovation & POCs
• Actively contribute to POCs for AI Gateway / Intelligent API Gateway initiatives
• Evaluate and prototype integrations with AI/ML-driven routing, observability, and security features
• Stay current with emerging SRE, cloud, and AI gateway technologies

• Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills
• Ability to work cross-functionally with developers, architects, and security teams
• Proactive mindset with a passion for automation and reliability
• Good documentation and communication skills

SRE, Devops, Java, Kubernetes, Observability