About the company
Our client needs engineers who can read a Kibana query at 3am, know the difference between a blip and a breach, and act on it, on a FedRAMP-authorised cloud platform that genuinely can't afford downtime.
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 on your patch, within FedRAMP SLA windows.
- Deployment execution and troubleshooting through GitLab CI/CD, ArgoCD, and Argo Workflows.
Requirements
- 3–5 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, with genuine availability for overnight/weekend rotational shifts. This is non-negotiable.
Conditions
- A defined engagement: Mid-September through end of March, with clear shift expectations up front.
- Competitive W2 hourly rate: $70–$80/hr, with overnight/weekend shift premium built in, DOE.
- A genuine reference point for FedRAMP/GovCloud experience on your CV.
- Real support from a delivery partner that treats contractors like people, not headcount.