Engineer 5 - Contingent

Position: SRE/ DevSecOps Engineer
Location: Iselin, New Jersey (Hybrid)
Duration:12+ months Contract
Job ID: 169847

Job Overview:
We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Site Reliability and Operations Engineer (SRE) with extensive experience in implementing Kubernetes-based distributed caching and solutions. This role requires a strong foundation in software development, infrastructure automation, reliability engineering, and large enterprise-scale implementations. The selected candidate will be responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining high-performance distributed systems, ensuring reliability, scalability, and efficiency.

Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and optimize distributed caching and compute grid solutions on Kubernetes/OpenShift.
• Understand microservices and containerized workloads using Kubernetes, Docker, and Helm.
• Implement high-throughput compute grid solutions using Apache Ignite, GridGain, Coherence, or similar technologies.
• Optimize application performance by leveraging caching strategies, load balancing, and efficient data distribution.
• Ensure high availability, scalability, and reliability of distributed systems.
• Implement observability, logging, and monitoring using tools like Splunk, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, or OpenTelemetry.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning and deployments using Ansible and Helm Charts.
• Understand CI/CD pipelines for seamless software deployment.
• Troubleshoot and resolve incidents related to platform, infrastructure, and distributed caching and compute grids, ensuring minimal downtime.
• Consult as an expert to develop or influence initiatives and resources for highly complex business and technical needs across Engineering.
• Provide expertise to senior leadership on innovative Engineering business solutions and strategically engage with personnel.

Qualifications:

• 7+ years of Engineering experience, or equivalent demonstrated through work, consulting experience, training, military experience, or education.
• Strong experience in Kubernetes (OpenShift and on-prem/cloud clusters).
• Proficiency in programming languages like Java, Go, or Python.
• Experience with containerization technologies (Docker, Helm, etc.).
• Strong knowledge of CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, ArgoCD, GitHub Actions, Harness).
• Hands-on experience with observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Jaeger).
• Understanding of networking, service meshes (Istio/Linkerd), and security best practices in Kubernetes.
• Experience with multi-cluster and hybrid cloud Kubernetes deployments.

About PTR Global: PTR Global is a leading provider of information technology and workforce solutions. PTR Global has become one of the largest providers in its industry, with over 5000 professionals providing services across the U.S. and Canada. For more information visit www.ptrglobal.com

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Pay Range: $90 - $105

The specific compensation for this position will be determined by a number of factors, including the scope, complexity and location of the role as well as the cost of labor in the market; the skills, education, training, credentials and experience of the candidate; and other conditions of employment. Our full-time consultants have access to benefits including medical, dental, vision and 401K contributions as well as any other PTO, sick leave, and other benefits mandated by appliable state or localities where you reside or work.

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