DevOps/SRE Engineer
Experience: 12+ years
Palo Alto, CA / Plano, TX
Onsite
Minimum 12+ years experience needed
**Local candidates only**
**First preference: Palo Alto, CA. **
**2nd preference: Plano, TX**
What are the top 3 skills required for this role?
SRE, AWS, ECS, Kafka, CI/CD
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills:
• 5+ years in SRE, production engineering, or DevOps roles supporting customer-facing distributed systems.
• Strong hands-on AWS experience: ECS/Fargate, load balancers, Route 53, Lambda, Step Functions,S3, IAM, KMS, Secrets Manager, CloudWatch.
• Production Terraform experience: modules, remote state, cross-workspace dependencies, and safeplan/apply workflows.
• Deep observability skills with at least one APM tool and one log analytics platform (e.g., Dynatrace,Splunk). Experience defining SLOs and actionable alerting.
• Able to read and troubleshoot Java/Spring Boot services, including reactive frameworks, JVM tuning in containers, and resilience libraries.
• Working knowledge of Kafka in production: consumer groups, lag, and retry/dead-letter patterns.
• Experience with blue/green or canary deployments and CI/CD tooling (e.g., Jenkins, Spinnaker).
• Proven incident-handling experience and strong documentation skills.
• Scripting and automation in Python, Bash, or Go.
Job Description/ Responsibilities:
Observability and incident response
• Build and improve monitoring, dashboards, and alerting across a distributed microservices platform, using APM, cloud-native metrics, and log analytics tools.
• Define service level indicators and objectives (SLIs/SLOs) for key customer journeys, and set up error-budget tracking.
• Support incident response and post-incident reviews. Write and maintain operational runbooks.
Resilience and disaster recovery
• Review, test, and improve multi-region disaster recovery and failover processes, including running failover exercises.
• Validate resilience patterns such as circuit breakers, retries, bulkheads, and timeouts against how dependencies really behave.
• Plan and run chaos experiments and game days.
Performance and capacity
• Set up a performance and load testing practice: baselines, repeatable test suites, and regression checks in the delivery pipeline.
• Analyze capacity and right-size container workloads, JVM settings, and autoscaling. Find savings incloud costs.
Infrastructure, delivery, and automation
• Contribute to and review infrastructure-as-code (Terraform) across multiple environments.
• Improve CI/CD and deployment safety: blue/green and canary releases, post-deploy verification, and automated rollback signals.
• Automate operational toil, such as event-reprocessing workflows, health reporting, and drift detection.
Operational security
• Strengthen operational security hygiene: certificate lifecycle, secrets management, least-privilege access, and keeping sensitive data out of logs.
• Work with application engineers, QA, and dependent teams to embed reliability into design and deliver
Experience: 12+ years
Palo Alto, CA / Plano, TX
Onsite
Minimum 12+ years experience needed
**Local candidates only**
**First preference: Palo Alto, CA. **
**2nd preference: Plano, TX**
What are the top 3 skills required for this role?
SRE, AWS, ECS, Kafka, CI/CD
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills:
• 5+ years in SRE, production engineering, or DevOps roles supporting customer-facing distributed systems.
• Strong hands-on AWS experience: ECS/Fargate, load balancers, Route 53, Lambda, Step Functions,S3, IAM, KMS, Secrets Manager, CloudWatch.
• Production Terraform experience: modules, remote state, cross-workspace dependencies, and safeplan/apply workflows.
• Deep observability skills with at least one APM tool and one log analytics platform (e.g., Dynatrace,Splunk). Experience defining SLOs and actionable alerting.
• Able to read and troubleshoot Java/Spring Boot services, including reactive frameworks, JVM tuning in containers, and resilience libraries.
• Working knowledge of Kafka in production: consumer groups, lag, and retry/dead-letter patterns.
• Experience with blue/green or canary deployments and CI/CD tooling (e.g., Jenkins, Spinnaker).
• Proven incident-handling experience and strong documentation skills.
• Scripting and automation in Python, Bash, or Go.
Job Description/ Responsibilities:
Observability and incident response
• Build and improve monitoring, dashboards, and alerting across a distributed microservices platform, using APM, cloud-native metrics, and log analytics tools.
• Define service level indicators and objectives (SLIs/SLOs) for key customer journeys, and set up error-budget tracking.
• Support incident response and post-incident reviews. Write and maintain operational runbooks.
Resilience and disaster recovery
• Review, test, and improve multi-region disaster recovery and failover processes, including running failover exercises.
• Validate resilience patterns such as circuit breakers, retries, bulkheads, and timeouts against how dependencies really behave.
• Plan and run chaos experiments and game days.
Performance and capacity
• Set up a performance and load testing practice: baselines, repeatable test suites, and regression checks in the delivery pipeline.
• Analyze capacity and right-size container workloads, JVM settings, and autoscaling. Find savings incloud costs.
Infrastructure, delivery, and automation
• Contribute to and review infrastructure-as-code (Terraform) across multiple environments.
• Improve CI/CD and deployment safety: blue/green and canary releases, post-deploy verification, and automated rollback signals.
• Automate operational toil, such as event-reprocessing workflows, health reporting, and drift detection.
Operational security
• Strengthen operational security hygiene: certificate lifecycle, secrets management, least-privilege access, and keeping sensitive data out of logs.
• Work with application engineers, QA, and dependent teams to embed reliability into design and deliver
Thanks & Regards,
Taraka
TekCommands, Inc.
24155 Drake Rd., Suite 130, Farmington Hills, MI 48335
Direct: 248-247-5532 | Fax: 248-743-1802
taraka@tekcommands.com | www.tekcommands.com
Taraka
TekCommands, Inc.
24155 Drake Rd., Suite 130, Farmington Hills, MI 48335
Direct: 248-247-5532 | Fax: 248-743-1802
taraka@tekcommands.com | www.tekcommands.com