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AWS SRE Cloud Administrator

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Mc Lean, VA Full Time
POSTED ON 1/28/2026 CLOSED ON 2/26/2026

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AWS SRE Cloud Administrator

Assignment Duration: 12 Months

Engagement Type: Contract

Work Location: Santa Monica, CA & MC Lean, VA - Onsite (Hybrid)

Define and operationalize SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, and reliability

governance models.

Lead incident command, RCA, and long-term reliability remediation for

large-scale systems.

Engineer and tune Java-based microservices (JVM internals, strategies,

memory profiling).

Design and operate GKE (Google Kubernetes Engine) at scale, including

multi-cluster and fleet management.

Implement Google Cloud Platform-native architectures using:

  • GKE, Compute Engine, Cloud Load Balancing
  • Cloud Spanner, Bigtable, Cloud SQL
  • Pub/Sub, Cloud Storage
  • IAM, VPC Service Controls

Build secure and repeatable infrastructure using Terraform and policy-as-

code.

Design advanced service mesh and traffic management using Istio / Anthos

Service Mesh.

Implement stateful Kubernetes workloads using Portworx.

Implement advanced Kubernetes storage using Portworx for stateful

workloads.

Support event-driven architectures using Kafka, Kafka Streams, KSQLDB,

and Spark Streaming.

Integrate Google Cloud Platform-native streaming solutions such as Pub/Sub.

Optimize systems for low-latency, high-throughput workloads.

Implement advanced observability using Prometheus, Datadog, Splunk,

Kiali.

Leverage eBPF for kernel-level tracing, networking diagnostics, and

performance tuning.

Manage advanced ingress, load balancing, and traffic shaping using Nginx

Controller and Seesaw.

Architect high-scale CI/CD pipelines using GitLab CI/CD, Jenkins, and Google Cloud Platform-

native tooling.

Build internal developer platforms (PaaS) to standardize deployments and

reduce toil.

Automate operations using Python, Go, Bash, and custom reliability

tooling.

Required Technical

Expertise:

Java (Advanced JVM internals, performance tuning)

Google Cloud Platform Cloud (Professional-level depth)

GKE/Kubernetes (CKA/CKS depth)

Docker, Terraform

CI/CD: GitLab CI/CD, Jenkins

Streaming: Kafka, Kafka Streams, KSQLDB, Spark

Service Mesh: Istio, Anthos Service Mesh

Monitoring & Logging: Prometheus, Datadog, Splunk, Kiali

OS & Scripting: Linux/Unix, Bash

Programming: Python or Go

Virtualization: VMware

Networking & Performance: eBPF, Nginx Controller, Seesaw

Multi-cluster Kubernetes governance

Internal platform engineering (PaaS)

High-traffic SaaS or consumer-scale platforms

Real-time streaming & event-driven architectures

Deep observability and kernel-level tracing

GKE fleet & Anthos multi-cluster architectures

JVM performance engineering at hyperscale

Service mesh traffic shaping & zero-downtime releases

eBPF-based observability & kernel tracing

Platform engineering / internal PaaS design

Real-time streaming & event-driven systems

Certifications

Required:

Google Professional Cloud Architect or Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer

Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) or Certified Kubernetes

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