Position: Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

Location: Richmond, VA or Plano, TX

Work Model: Hybrid 3 days onsite per week

Duration: Long term contract

Job Summary:

We are seeking an experienced Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to support cloud-native platforms and production systems for a large enterprise environment. This role will focus on ensuring high availability, reliability, performance, and scalability of mission-critical applications running on AWS.

Strong Preference: Former Capital One engineers. Candidates must be able to provide verifiable Capital One credentials and be eligible for rehire.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, build, and maintain highly reliable, scalable, and resilient systems in AWS
• Monitor system health, performance, and availability using SRE best practices
• Implement automation to reduce manual operational work
• Troubleshoot production incidents and perform root cause analysis (RCA)
• Develop and maintain scripts and tools to improve system reliability and efficiency
• Partner with application development, platform, and infrastructure teams
• Support on-call rotations and incident response as required
• Enforce operational excellence, security, and compliance standards

Required Skills & Qualifications:

• Former Capital One experience HIGHLY preferred
• Must provide credentials for rehire eligibility verification
• Strong hands-on experience with AWS (EC2, EKS, Lambda, CloudWatch, IAM, etc.)
• Python scripting experience strongly preferred
• Bash or Shell scripting experience will also be considered
• Experience with Linux-based systems and troubleshooting
• Understanding of SRE concepts: SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, monitoring, and alerting
• Experience supporting production environments at scale

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with CI/CD pipelines
• Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation)
• Containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes)
• Observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, CloudWatch)
• Experience working in highly regulated enterprise environments