100% Remote USA EST Timezone Contractor / PJ position Role Overview The goal is to shape the reliability and scalability of mission-critical platforms on Azure, Kubernetes , and modern Dev Ops toolchains. You will solve complex infrastructure challenges, automate end-to-end operations, and ensure systems operate with high availability, performance, and security. What You Will Do Design, build, and improve CI/CD pipelines for applications and infrastructure Develop automation frameworks that reduce manual effort and increase consistency. Configure and optimize cloud infrastructure to align with security, scalability, and performance best practices. Collaborate with development teams to remove deployment blockers and improve delivery workflows. Monitor reliability and performance, identify issues early, and implement data-driven improvements to increase uptime and efficiency. Participate in on-call rotations and drive incident resolution with clear postmortems and preventive actions. Maintain technical documentation for pipelines, configurations, and runbooks. Perform readiness assessments and validation tests before production rollouts. Implement Infrastructure as Code using Terraform and ARM templates with version control and reproducibility. Troubleshoot complex deployment, provisioning, and performance issues across multi-cloud and containerized environments. Minimum Qualifications Proven track record in SRE or Dev Ops roles operating production systems Hands-on experience running production workloads on Kubernetesin a cloud environment, including cluster design, autoscaling, upgrades, and network policies. Proven CI/CD delivery using Git Hub Actions or Jenkins , including promotion across environments, approvals, and rollback strategies. Infrastructure as Codeexpertise with Terraformand ARM templates, including modules, remote state, workspaces, and policy enforcement. Strongscripting in Power Shell, Bash, or Pythonfor automation and diagnostics. Git Ops experience with Argo CD or Flux , managing multi-environment application delivery and drift remediation. Containerization with Dockerand Kubernetes , including health probes, Pod Disruption Budgets, resource quotas, Horizontal Pod Autoscaler, and operators. Networking fundamentals with cloud network security practices such as VNet design, NSGs, Private Link, and ingress controllers. Working knowledge of cloud security and compliance, including least privilege, secrets management, audit trails, and control evidence. Excellent written andspoken English. Ability to collaborate across US time zone. Preferred Qualifications Microsoft Azure certification , such as Developer Associate, Administrator, or Dev Ops Engineer Expert Observability using Application Insights, Elastic Stack (ELK), Grafana, and Prometheusfor metrics, logs, and traces. Experience with log aggregation and alerting at scale using Elastic and Prometheus. Understanding of high availability, scalability, disaster recovery, and cost optimization strategies. Experience managing Windows-based containerized applications. Plus Experience in Google Cloud Platform (GCP) or AWS
