Site Reliability Engineer

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Job description

Akkodis is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer for a contract-to-hire position with one of our direct clients based in Saint Louis, MO (Hybrid). The ideal candidate should have strong experience in Python, AWS, Terraform, and Agile workflow processes, and use JIRA for ticketing.

The rate may be negotiable based on experience, education, geographic location, and other factors.

ABOUT THE ROLE:

This role will assist with designing and enhancing existing infrastructure solutions by leveraging experience to help set the direction for cloud technology. As our Site Reliability Engineer, you will need strong logic and problem-solving skills to guide creating and maintaining reusable enterprise cloud technology solutions.

Site Reliability Engineer Job Responsibilities include:

• Write code, test, and execute or orchestrate pipelines into production based on customer specifications.

• Act as a subject matter expert (SME) for infrastructure and cloud operations to resolve or escalate as appropriate.

• Develop, lead, and optimize the peer review process for Infrastructure as Code (IaC), maintain in a code repository, and build CI/CD pipelines focused on the application layer. IaC tools include Ansible, Terraform, PowerShell, CDK, bash, TypeScript, Python, and other applicable tools.

• Work with teams to understand the existing infrastructure state and assist in achieving the next step forward.

• Design full-stack cloud technology solutions in collaboration with application development teams, in alignment with the vision established by technology and product leaders.

• Take ownership of existing technology solutions, design and proactively collaborate with key stakeholders that increase efficiency, and recommend improvements that increase resiliency, and automation, and reduce manual effort.

• Lead the implementation of additional tools and processes that maintain an automation-first approach to infrastructure and middleware management.

• Help create roadmaps to sunset, replace, and decommission legacy implementations as new capabilities are introduced.

• Integrate an agile approach to software development that helps build, test, deploy, and monitor applications with speed, quality, and control.

• Support and maintain distributed storage technologies.

Desired Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field of study, or commensurate experience.

• 5+ years of experience in information systems with a combination of the following:

  • Technical certification.

  • Experience building and scaling highly available cloud architectures, all while maintaining high-quality codebases.

  • Experience building infrastructure solutions in Amazon Web Services (AWS), including tools such as Kubernetes, Docker, Lambda, and serverless deployments.

  • Experience using system monitoring and automated self-healing.

  • Knowledge of Ansible, Terraform, Python, shell scripting, and other automation tools.

  • Full stack application development experience, including CI/CD pipeline development, automated builds, testing, and Infrastructure as Code.

  • Experience with Agile methodologies and DevSecOps methods of planning work

• Proficient in source control and leveraging a source code repository.

• Proficient in containerization and management of Linux distributions.

• Excellent writing and documentation skills.

• Creative troubleshooting & problem-solving skills.

• Working knowledge of Microsoft Office products.

This job requires a Public Trust background check. Candidates must be US Citizens or Lawful Permanent Residents with 3 years or more of US Residency.

If you are interested in this role, then please click APPLY NOW. For other opportunities available at Akkodis, or any questions, please contact Kartikey Chauhan at .

Pay Details: $65.00 to $75.00 per hour

Benefit offerings available for our associates include medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short-term disability, additional voluntary benefits, EAP program, commuter benefits and a 401K plan. Our benefit offerings provide employees the flexibility to choose the type of coverage that meets their individual needs. In addition, our associates may be eligible for paid leave including Paid Sick Leave or any other paid leave required by Federal, State, or local law, as well as Holiday pay where applicable.

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The Company will consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records in accordance with federal, state, and local laws and/or security clearance requirements, including, as applicable:

• The California Fair Chance Act
• Los Angeles City Fair Chance Ordinance
• Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers
• San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance

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