CTG is seeking to fill a Senior Site Reliability Engineer opening for our client in Jersey City, NJ.
Location: Jersey City, NJ (100% Onsite)
Duration: 6 months

SKILLS:

• Strong hands-on expertise with Kubernetes (EKS and/or OpenShift), Helm charts, and Operators.
• Middleware expertise with Kafka and Redis.
• IaC and automation proficiency with Terraform, Ansible, ArgoCD, Helm, or similar tools.
• Advanced observability experience with Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/Splunk.
• Programming and scripting skills in Python, Shell, or Groovy.
• Proficiency in instrumenting distributed applications for observability.
• Ability to enforce and maintain high reliability standards using SLO-driven frameworks.
• Strong debugging, analytical, communication, and collaboration skills.

EXPERIENCE:

• 12+ years overall industry experience.
• 6+ years in SRE, DevOps, Platform, or Production Engineering roles.
• Proven track record of managing large-scale production systems with high availability.
• Certification in EKS/OpenShift administration (CKA, AWS Certified Kubernetes Administrator, Red Hat Certified OpenShift Administrator, or equivalent) preferred.
• Nice-to-have: experience with service mesh (Istio, Linkerd), chaos engineering (Chaos Monkey, LitmusChaos), regulated environment security/compliance, and API Gateway platforms (e.g., RedHat 3 Scale).

EDUCATION:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field preferred. Equivalent work experience may be considered.
  Excellent verbal and written English communication skills and the ability to interact professionally with a diverse group are required.
  CTG does not accept unsolicited resumes from headhunters, recruitment agencies, or fee based recruitment services for this role.
  Job Types: Full-time, Contract
  Pay: $120,000.00 - $150,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• Dental insurance
• Health insurance
• Paid time off
• Vision insurance

Work Location: In perso

• Administer and optimize Kubernetes clusters (Amazon EKS and Red Hat OpenShift), including upgrades, scaling, and security controls.
• Manage middleware platforms such as Apache Kafka, Redis Enterprise Clusters, and 3 Scale API Gateway.
• Automate manual operations using Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) and configuration management tools (Helm, ArgoCD, Terraform, Ansible, etc.).
• Design and implement monitoring dashboards and alerts with Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, and Splunk.
• Instrument distributed applications (Java, Node.js, Python) to meet SLOs with tracing, metrics, and logging.
• Define SLIs/SLOs, manage error budgets, and lead incident response and root cause analysis.
• Forecast capacity, monitor utilization, and tune performance of applications and clusters.
• Implement container security and policy governance with tools such as OPA/Gatekeeper, Kyverno, Trivy, Clair, and Snyk.
• Configure Kubernetes network segmentation (NetworkPolicy, Calico) to secure traffic and enforce reliability.