Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

Position: Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)
Location: Austin, TX.
Duration: 6 month contract, can be extended and will allow for mostly remote work, however, the client does want candidates to be able to come to the Austin office from time to time. We are needing candidates who are either in Austin, TX or willing to relocate to Austin within 3 weeks of accepting an offer.
Sub-vending is allowed.
The interview process will be 1 video interview and then an offer will be made.
Please see attached job description. We are needing candidates who are strong in the following:
• Must Haves: 3 to 5 years exp. Kubernetes, DataDog, cloud services, large scale systems, AWS&GCP, minor Azure
• GKE, home strung clusters on prem, and AKS (Very Small), EKS
• Consistent upgrades across all the clusters and clouds
• Nice to Have: Gaming experience bonus
Required Qualifications

• 6+ years of demonstrated influence across one or more teams for large scale projects that drive impact and improvement across the organization
• 6+ years of experience in an SRE role for online services in a multi-region, multi-cloud environment with specific experience in reliability and resliency
• 6+ years of developing tools for automation of processes or augmenting off the shelf tool functionality
• 6+ years of AWS and/or GCP cloud experience running highly elastic mission critical workloads
• 6+ years of coding experience in at least one or more of Python, Ruby, Java, or Go and a good understanding of code management
• 6+ years of experience using Infrastructure as Code tools like Terraform, Pulumi, or others
• Extensive knowledge of software build, test, and deploy processes using Git, Jenkins, Puppet, Ansible, Docker/containers, and Kubernetes
• Experience with system analysis and troubleshooting
• Serve as a mentor to junior engineers and provide technical leadership to the organization.

Bonus Points
• Prior hands-on experience running large scale multiplayer video games at scale
• Experience designing and crafting software for systems and network automation
• Debugging, code optimization, and routine task automation skills
• Demonstrated ability to decompose sophisticated problems. Ability to engage in lateral investigations.