#1 Site Reliability Engineer II

C-Serv • San Francisco, CA

6d • $70 - $90 • Hybrid

About The Position

This role is for a Site Reliability Engineer II in the Bay Area, with offices in San Jose. It involves hybrid work and 24/7 FedRAMP Operations with a rotational shift. The initial contract is until March 27. This position requires US citizenship and residence on US soil, operating within a FedRAMP Moderate-authorized environment. The role is hands-on, focusing on pipeline management and real ownership, not just monitoring. Engineers are expected to be able to read Kibana queries at 3 am, differentiate between a blip and a breach, and act on them in a FedRAMP-authorized cloud platform that requires high availability.

Requirements

• 3+ years in SRE, DevOps, systems administration, or cloud support.
• Solid Linux administration (RHEL, Amazon Linux, Ubuntu) and comfort with bash/Python scripting.
• Working knowledge of Kubernetes/EKS, AWS core services, and L4/L7 load balancing troubleshooting.
• Prometheus, Grafana, and ChatOps-via-Slack experience.
• US citizenship and US-soil residency.
• Genuine availability for overnight/weekend rotational shifts.

Nice To Haves

• This is a strong place to build experience for FedRAMP and GovCloud work.
• Opportunity to move towards Senior SRE.

Responsibilities

• Real-time monitoring and first-response triage across AWS (Commercial/GovCloud) and EKS infrastructure.
• Log-level root cause investigation in Kibana and Elasticsearch.
• CVE remediation and STIG hardening within FedRAMP SLA windows.
• Deployment execution and troubleshooting through GitLab CI/CD, ArgoCD, and Argo Workflows.

Benefits

• A defined engagement from mid-September through end of March, with clear shift expectations.
• Competitive W2 hourly rate ($70–$90/hr, with overnight/weekend shift premium built in, DOE).
• A genuine reference point for FedRAMP/GovCloud experience.
• Real support from a delivery partner.

What This Job Offers

• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed