Description The Sr. Site Reliability Engineer will architect, develop, and maintain our cloud environment in both the commercial and government cloud. The role will work closely with software engineers, architects, and DevOps engineers to architect and maintain a secure, resilient and high performance cloud infrastructure. Primary Responsibilities: • Build, maintain, and operate IaaS and PaaS infrastructure in Azure commercial and government clouds. • Work closely with dev teams to identify and measure SLOs, SLAs and SLIs. • Act a strong contributor to development of platform services including architecture, provisioning, configuration, deployment, and support Perform integrations with central logging, metrics dashboards, instrumentation, incident monitoring and management. • Build/integrate/administer systems and tools that enable engineering teams to observe their applications in production with autonomy (Dashboards, APMs). • Support software and/or cloud-infrastructure in an on-call rotation basis. • Assist with identification and remediation of technical problems at the root cause by continuously implementing automation, self-healing, and real-time monitoring to production systems. • Maintain and improve operational tooling, frameworks. • Build frameworks that test the performance and resiliency of our platform services/tools. • Automate alerts for metrics on performance, cost, vulnerabilities, risk, compliance violations. • Improve processes and champion automation of any manual items around support. Required Qualifications: • 4 + years of experience working within a cloud engineer/SRE role. • Expert knowledge of a cloud service provider. • Expert knowledge and hands on production experience in Kubernetes (bare metal or managed) cluster setup and management required. • Experience with infrastructure as code (IaC) tools like Terraform, Pulumi. • Experience with Kubernetes deployment tools like Helm, ArgoCD, Flux. • Strong awareness of networking and internet protocols. • Understanding of identity and access management (IAM). • Experience supporting infrastructure in production cloud environments. • Knowledge of Encryption, Public Key Infrastructure (PKI), understanding of OWASP. • Experience working with RESTful services. • Some experience with monitoring tools (Azure Monitor, Splunk, Dynatrace, Graphana, Prometheus). • Familiarity with IDEs and Source Control tools like Visual Studio Code and Git. Preferred: • Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Software Engineering, Math, Physics. • Master’s Degree with coursework focused on advanced algorithms, mathematics in computing, data structures or related field. • Expert knowledge of Azure. • Demonstrate passion about infrastructure automation. • Ability to prioritize work in a fast-paced environment. Job Qualifications Required • Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience • At least 2 years of experience working within a DevOps Engineering role • Intermediate knowledge of cloud infrastructure services, specifically with Azure • 2+ years of experience with Docker or other containerization technologies • 2+ years of experience with CI/CD tools and platforms such as Azure DevOps, Argo, and Flux. • Experience supporting 24x7, high availability application environments that include web, application and database servers and load balancing systems. • Basic to intermediate knowledge of Microsoft SQL server and relational databases • Demonstrated experience working in a fast paced, large scale Agile/Scrum development environment • Equivalent combination of education, experience and/or applicable military experience will be considered Top Skills Details Terraform - Used for Network and Cloud infrastructure Azure Cloud experience with Dev background Kubernetes- Ideally experience setting up in green field environment Additional Skills & Qualifications Preferred • Experience with CI using tools such as Azure DevOps, YAML, Task Agent, or Pools • Experience with hosting .NET applications, Windows Forms, Web Services, RESTful APIs, Single Page Application, Micro Services. • Experience working with Container technologies like Docker, Kubernetes • Experience with Object Oriented Programming concepts • Understanding of existing Optum Serve technology and business operations Experience Level Expert Level Job Type & Location This is a Contract position based out of Chicago, IL. Pay and Benefits The pay range for this position is $80.00 - $80.00/hr. Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on your job classification and length of employment. Benefits are subject to change and may be subject to specific elections, plan, or program terms. If eligible, the benefits available for this temporary role may include the following: • Medical, dental & vision • Critical Illness, Accident, and Hospital • 401(k) Retirement Plan – Pre-tax and Roth post-tax contributions available • Life Insurance (Voluntary Life & AD&D for the employee and dependents) • Short and long-term disability • Health Spending Account (HSA) • Transportation benefits • Employee Assistance Program • Time Off/Leave (PTO, Vacation or Sick Leave) Workplace Type This is a fully remote position. Application Deadline This position is anticipated to close on Dec 12, 2025. h4>About TEKsystems: We're partners in transformation. We help clients activate ideas and solutions to take advantage of a new world of opportunity. We are a team of 80,000 strong, working with over 6,000 clients, including 80% of the Fortune 500, across North America, Europe and Asia. As an industry leader in Full-Stack Technology Services, Talent Services, and real-world application, we work with progressive leaders to drive change. That's the power of true partnership. TEKsystems is an Allegis Group company. The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regards to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law. About TEKsystems and TEKsystems Global Services We’re a leading provider of business and technology services. We accelerate business transformation for our customers. Our expertise in strategy, design, execution and operations unlocks business value through a range of solutions. We’re a team of 80,000 strong, working with over 6,000 customers, including 80% of the Fortune 500 across North America, Europe and Asia, who partner with us for our scale, full-stack capabilities and speed. We’re strategic thinkers, hands-on collaborators, helping customers capitalize on change and master the momentum of technology. We’re building tomorrow by delivering business outcomes and making positive impacts in our global communities. TEKsystems and TEKsystems Global Services are Allegis Group companies. Learn more at TEKsystems.com. The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regard to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.