A U.
S.-based provider of secure enterprise cloud technology for national security agencies, defense, and regulated industry customers, is hiring a Site Reliability Engineer on a contract basis.
This role is fully remote within the U.
S., with East Coast hours preferred.
You will keep a large AWS environment healthy and automated using Terraform, Jenkins, Ansible, and Kubernetes.
This is a chance to work inside a security model most cloud teams never get to see.
You will join a compact, senior SRE team supporting a cloud analytics platform, where infrastructure ownership is real and not split across a dozen layers.
They want someone who loves automation, builds self-healing systems so problems fix themselves, and is excited to experiment with AI agents and AI-assisted tooling.
Over time the team will extend support into a neighboring HCM environment, so there is natural room for your scope to grow.
Contract Duration: 6 – 12 Months
Required Skills & Experience
- Hands-on SRE, DevOps, or cloud infrastructure experience at scale in AWS
- Strong Terraform skills, since infrastructure as code is central to how this team works
- Working experience with Jenkins and Ansible
- Solid grasp of Kubernetes concepts (deep administration experience is not required)
- Comfort with Linux systems and troubleshooting production issues
- Willingness to participate in a shared on-call rotation
- U.S. citizenship
Desired Skills & Experience
- Experience building AI agents or agentic automation
- Familiarity with Windows-based enterprise environments
- Background supporting secure, regulated, or compliance-heavy environments
What You Will Be Doing: Tech Breakdown
- 30% AWS Infrastructure (several hundred EC2 instances) & Terraform
- 30% CI/CD & Configuration Management (Jenkins, Ansible)
- 30% Kubernetes (managed container service)
- 10% SAP HANA & Analytics Workload Reliability
You will receive the following benefits:
- Medical Insurance - Four medical plans to choose from for you and your family
- Dental & Orthodontia Benefits
- Vision Benefits
- Health Savings Account (HSA)
- Health and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts
- Voluntary Life Insurance, Long-Term & Short-Term Disability Insurance
- Hospital Indemnity Insurance
- 401(k) including match with pre and post-tax options
- Paid Sick Time Leave
- Legal and Identity Protection Plans
- Pre-tax Commuter Benefit
- 529 College Saver Plan
Motion Recruitment Partners (MRP) is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
All applicants must be currently authorized to work on a full-time basis in the country for which they are applying, and no sponsorship is currently available.
Employment is subject to the successful completion of a pre-employment screening.
Accommodation will be provided in all parts of the hiring process as required under MRP’s Employment Accommodation policy.
Applicants need to make their needs known in advance.