Maxonic maintains a close and long-term relationship with our direct client. In support of their needs, we are looking for an SRE Engineer with OCI (Oracle Cloud Integration). Job Description: Job Title: SRE Engineer with OCI (Oracle Cloud Integration) Job Location: Newark, CA Work Schedule: Hybrid - 3 days a week onsite Rate: $71, Based on experience, Open to C2C candidates as well. Responsibilities: Typical Day in the Role • Purpose of the Team: The purpose of this team is the Cloud Infrastructure Team and managed the AWS Cloud, OCI Cloud and all critical applications. • Key projects: This role will contribute to working on open VPN upgrades, AMQX upgrades, etc. • Typical task breakdown and operating rhythm: The role will consist of responsibilities in the JD Candidate Requirements • Years of Experience Required: 7-8 overall years of experience in the field. • Degrees or certifications required: AWS Cloud Certification or OCI Certification • Performance Indicators: Performance will be assessed based on meeting deadlines and quality of work. Top 3 Hard Skills Required + Years of Experience 1. Minimum 7 years experience with Cloud architecture or engineering 1. Minimum 7 years experience with DevOps 1. Minimum 7 years experience with Kubernetes Hard Skills Assessments • Expected Dates that Hard Skills Assessments will be scheduled: ASAP • Hard Skills Assessment Process: The assessment process will include 2 rounds with the sponsor • Required Candidate Preparation: Be prepared to work out a troubleshoot an issue. You will: Reliability Engineering: Own and enhance the reliability of services deployed across various cloud regions. You will proactively monitor, automate, and scale services to ensure seamless uptime and performance. Containerization & Microservices Deployment: Lead the containerization and deployment of microservices and data pipelines on Kubernetes, using Helm charts, ensuring best practices for scalability and fault tolerance. DevOps Advocacy: Foster and advocate for a DevOps culture that emphasizes automation, self-service, and engineering excellence. Enable development teams to manage and deploy applications seamlessly with minimal intervention. Performance Monitoring & Autoscaling: Implement autoscaling strategies and monitor the performance of applications and infrastructure with tools like Prometheus, Grafana, and other observability platforms. Site Reliability Engineering (SRE): Perform SRE tasks such as availability monitoring, incident response, post-mortem analysis, and preparing reliability reports for leadership and stakeholders. Tool Deployment & Maintenance: Deploy, configure, and maintain essential cloud services and tools including Kafka, Spark, Presto, Airflow, MQTT, and other microservices platforms in a cloud-native environment. Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Set up and manage cloud infrastructure using tools like Terraform, Cluster API, and other IaC frameworks, ensuring seamless provisioning, management, and scaling of resources. Automated Alerts & Recovery: Continuously enhance and automate alerting, incident detection, and recovery mechanisms for critical applications and services to minimize downtime and improve system reliability. On-Call Rotation: Participate in an on-call rotation to meet business SLAs, quickly troubleshoot and resolve issues, and document runbooks for consistent incident management processes. Agile Collaboration: Work closely with Product Owners, Engineering Managers, and cross-functional teams in Agile Scrum and Kanban workflows to deliver iterative improvements and meet evolving business needs. Impact Analysis & Incident Management: Perform impact analysis during incidents, collaborate with teams for root cause analysis, and implement preventive measures to avoid recurrence. You Bring: B.S. or M.S. degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience. 8+ years in Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), DevOps Engineering, or related fields At least 4+ years of hands-on experience deploying, managing, and optimizing containerized applications using Docker and Kubernetes in both public and private cloud environments (AWS, Google Cloud Platform, Azure, etc.). 4+ years in Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) using Terraform, Cluster API, or similar automation frameworks to manage cloud infrastructure. Experience in scripting or programming with Python, Go, Bash/Shell, or similar languages. Strong understanding of using Prometheus, Grafana, and other monitoring and observability tools. Ability to effectively diagnose and resolve performance bottlenecks within AWS at the infrastructure and application layers. Configuration Management: Experience with configuration management and automation tools such as Ansible, Chef, or Puppet (preferred but not required). About Maxonic: Since 2002 Maxonic has been at the forefront of connecting candidate strengths to client challenges. Our award winning, dedicated team of recruiting professionals are specialized by technology, are great listeners, and will seek to find a position that meets the long-term career needs of our candidates. We take pride in the over 10,000 candidates that we have placed, and the repeat business that we earn from our satisfied clients. Interested in Applying? Please apply with your most current resume. Feel free to contact Pramod Kumar (pramod.k@maxonic.com / 408- 400- 2327) for more details.