Randstad Digital Americas ยท 6 hours ago
Senior DevOps/SRE Engineer
Washington, DC
Contract
Onsite
Senior Level
$50/hr - $55/hr
5+ years expRandstad Digital Americas is seeking a high-caliber Senior DevOps/SRE Engineer to join a mission-critical team in Washington, DC, focused on maturing their cloud-native ecosystem. The role involves bridging the gap between development and operations, managing AWS environments, and driving a 'Security-First' CI/CD culture.
Information Technology & Services
Responsibilities
Define and maintain SLOs/SLIs, manage error budgets, and lead high-level incident response and blameless postmortem analyses
Architect and maintain secure, scalable environments using Terraform, Ansible, and CloudFormation to ensure repeatable deployments
Design secure delivery pipelines (GitHub Actions/Jenkins) incorporating automated rollbacks, canary releases, and blue-green deployment patterns
Build and manage full-stack telemetry pipelines, dashboards, and alerting systems using Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, or ELK
Enforce security-as-code by integrating SAST/DAST, secrets scanning, and SBOM validation into the automated software development lifecycle
Monitor cloud spend trends and implement right-sizing strategies to ensure high performance at an optimal cost-to-value ratio
Develop shared playbooks, reusable automation modules, and self-service tools to boost developer velocity and reduce friction
Mentor cross-functional teams and establish organization-wide best practices for fault tolerance and operational readiness
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field
5+ years in DevOps, SRE, or Platform Engineering, including leadership experience in production automation
3+ years of hands-on experience managing high-availability production environments, specifically within AWS (IAM, Networking, Compute)
Deep proficiency with Kubernetes, Docker, and Linux systems administration
Advanced experience with Terraform, GitOps patterns, and CI/CD security tollgates
Strong scripting proficiency in Python, Go, or Bash for custom tool development
Proven track record in chaos engineering, capacity modeling, and managing complex observability stacks
Exceptional ability to document technical architectures and lead collaborative engineering initiatives
Benefits
Medical
Prescription
Dental
Vision
AD&D
Life insurance offerings
Short-term disability
401K plan
Company
Randstad Digital Americas
Randstad Digital is a trusted digital enablement partner that facilitates accelerated transformation for businesses by providing global talent, capacity, and solutions across specialized domains.
10001+ employees
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageLeadership Team
Graig Paglieri
CEO, Randstad Digital Americas
Pascal de Hesselle
SVP, Executive Client Partner - Technology, Media & Telecom
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