Role: DevOps/SRE Engineer Location: Palo Alto, CA / Plano, TX (Onsite) Duration: 4 months
**Local candidates only** **First preference: Palo Alto, CA. ** **2nd preference: Plano, TX**
What are the top 3 skills required for this role?
SRE, AWS, ECS, Kafka, CI/CD
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills: • 5+ years in SRE, production engineering, or DevOps roles supporting customer-facing distributed systems. • Strong hands-on AWS experience: ECS/Fargate, load balancers, Route 53, Lambda, Step Functions,S3, IAM, KMS, Secrets Manager, CloudWatch. • Production Terraform experience: modules, remote state, cross-workspace dependencies, and safeplan/apply workflows. • Deep observability skills with at least one APM tool and one log analytics platform (e.g., Dynatrace,Splunk). Experience defining SLOs and actionable alerting. • Able to read and troubleshoot Java/Spring Boot services, including reactive frameworks, JVM tuning in containers, and resilience libraries. • Working knowledge of Kafka in production: consumer groups, lag, and retry/dead-letter patterns. • Experience with blue/green or canary deployments and CI/CD tooling (e.g., Jenkins, Spinnaker). • Proven incident-handling experience and strong documentation skills. • Scripting and automation in Python, Bash, or Go.
Job Description/ Responsibilities: Observability and incident response • Build and improve monitoring, dashboards, and alerting across a distributed microservices platform, using APM, cloud-native metrics, and log analytics tools. • Define service level indicators and objectives (SLIs/SLOs) for key customer journeys, and set up error-budget tracking. • Support incident response and post-incident reviews. Write and maintain operational runbooks.
Resilience and disaster recovery • Review, test, and improve multi-region disaster recovery and failover processes, including running failover exercises. • Validate resilience patterns such as circuit breakers, retries, bulkheads, and timeouts against how dependencies really behave. • Plan and run chaos experiments and game days.
Performance and capacity • Set up a performance and load testing practice: baselines, repeatable test suites, and regression checks in the delivery pipeline. • Analyze capacity and right-size container workloads, JVM settings, and autoscaling. Find savings incloud costs.
Infrastructure, delivery, and automation • Contribute to and review infrastructure-as-code (Terraform) across multiple environments. • Improve CI/CD and deployment safety: blue/green and canary releases, post-deploy verification, and automated rollback signals. • Automate operational toil, such as event-reprocessing workflows, health reporting, and drift detection.
Operational security • Strengthen operational security hygiene: certificate lifecycle, secrets management, least-privilege access, and keeping sensitive data out of logs. • Work with application engineers, QA, and dependent teams to embed reliability into design and deliver
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At SPECTRAFORCE, we are committed to maintaining a workplace that ensures fair compensation and wage transparency in adherence with all applicable state and local laws. This position's pay range is $54.00/hr - $59.00/hr.
