Site Reliability Engineer Contract

C-Serv • San Jose, CA

6d • Hybrid

About The Position

This contract role for a Site Reliability Engineer II is based in San Francisco Bay and operates in a hybrid model. The position involves 24/7 FedRAMP Operations with rotational shifts. The core requirement is US citizenship and residence on US soil, as the role operates within a FedRAMP Moderate-authorised environment. This is not a passive monitoring role; engineers are expected to actively investigate and respond to issues, including reading Kibana queries at 3 am, distinguishing between minor fluctuations and significant breaches, and acting upon them to ensure the uptime of a critical cloud platform. This role is ideal for individuals with a few years of experience in SRE or cloud support looking to gain experience in FedRAMP and GovCloud environments.

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.

Responsibilities

• Real-time monitoring and first-response triage across AWS (Commercial/GovCloud) and EKS infrastructure.
• Log-level root cause investigation using 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 ($60–$90/hr, with overnight/weekend shift premium built in, DOE).
• Opportunity to gain FedRAMP/GovCloud experience.
• Support from a delivery partner.

What This Job Offers

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