Platform Engineer (SRE) - Contract Position

Genesis10 is currently seeking a Platform Engineer (SRE) for a contract position with a Global Financial Institution located in Irving, TX. This is a 12+ month contract opportunity.

This role focuses on supporting the end-to-end reliability, availability, and performance of the Harness CD platform. The ideal candidate will apply Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) concepts, develop automation using Infrastructure as Code (IaC), and maintain integrations with various CI/CD and cloud technologies to ensure an efficient developer experience.

Responsibilities

• Platform Ownership & Reliability (SRE):
• Support end-to-end reliability, availability, and performance of the Harness CD platform across non-prod, prod, and BCP environments
• Maintain and report on SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, deployment success rates, and platform health metrics
• Lead incident response, troubleshooting, and RCA for deployment failures, delegate outages, or platform performance issues
• Identify and remediate scaling, performance, and capacity constraints across delegates, pipelines, Kubernetes clusters, and cloud integrations
• Automation & Engineering Excellence:
• Develop automation for provisioning, configuration, scaling, upgrades, and maintenance of Harness components
• Build Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform, Ansible, Helm, or equivalent tools
• Automate common operational tasks including delegate lifecycle, cluster onboarding, secret rotation, and pipeline validation
• Reduce manual work by implementing resilient, repeatable, and self-service automation workflows
• DevOps & CI/CD Integration:
• Maintain and enhance Harness integrations with GitHub, Jenkins, Azure DevOps, Kubernetes/OpenShift clusters, and cloud providers
• Ensure an efficient developer experience through well-optimized pipelines and reliable deployment mechanisms
• Partner with DevOps teams to optimize orchestration strategies (blue/green, canary, rolling)
• Work with Security teams to embed DevSecOps controls such as policy enforcement, governance pipelines, and security checks
• Observability & Monitoring:
• Implement and maintain monitoring, logging, dashboards, and alerting for all Harness components
• Use Splunk, Prometheus, Grafana, AppDynamics, or similar tools to build actionable alerts
• Detect and escalate issues such as delegate saturation, pipeline slowdowns, API failures, and Kubernetes resource constraints
• Support proactive monitoring to reduce mean time to detection and resolution
• Modernization & Continuous Improvement:
• Assist with Harness upgrades, hotfixes, patching, and vendor-recommended lifecycle activities
• Contribute to modernization efforts including containerization, cloud-native deployments, and multi-cloud expansion
• Support resiliency improvements such as BCP validation, backup verification, and BCP readiness
• Evaluate new Harness features, modules on platform capabilities for enterprise usage
• Technical Leadership:
• Act as a technical SME for Harness platform operations and enhancements
• Provide platform guidance, documentation, architecture details, and runbook development
• Partner with senior engineers to improve standards, automation patterns, and operational excellence

Requirements

• Core Technical Skills:
• 5-7+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, Platform Engineering, or Cloud Engineering roles
• Hands-on experience with Harness CD
• Strong experience with Kubernetes/OpenShift, Linux, cloud services and deployment best practices
• Solid understanding of CI/CD workflows and software release automation
• SRE & Automation:
• Experience applying SRE concepts such as SLIs/SLOs, error budgets, and operational maturity improvements
• Strong automation/scripting skills using Python, Bash, or PowerShell
• Infrastructure as Code experience with Terraform, Ansible, Helm, or equivalent tooling
• Observability & Troubleshooting:
• Experience with observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, ELK, AppDynamics, etc.)
• Strong troubleshooting skills across container, OS, networking, platform, and cloud technology layers

Desired skills

• Experience supporting CD platforms at enterprise scale (hundreds of teams, multi-region deployments)
• Experience in cloud-native and hybrid cloud environments (Azure, GCP)
• Familiarity with DevSecOps practices, policy automation frameworks, and governance models
• Experience supporting complex upgrades, platform migrations, or modernization projects

Pay Rate: 51.72 - 59.72 Per Hour

Only candidates available and ready to work directly as Genesis10 employees will be considered for this position.

If you have the described qualifications and are interested in this exciting opportunity, please apply!

Ranked a Top Staffing Firm in the U.S. by Staffing Industry Analysts for six consecutive years, Genesis10 puts thousands of consultants and employees to work across the United States every year in contract, contract-for-hire, and permanent placement roles. With more than 300 active clients, Genesis10 provides access to many of the Fortune 100 firms and a variety of mid-market organizations across the full spectrum of industry verticals.

For contract roles, Genesis10 offers the benefits listed below. If this is a perm-placement opportunity, our recruiter can talk you through the unique benefits offered for that particular client. Benefits of Working with Genesis10:

• Access to hundreds of clients, most who have been working with Genesis10 for 5-20+ years.
• The opportunity to have a career-home in Genesis10; many of our consultants have been working exclusively with Genesis10 for years.
• Access to an experienced, caring recruiting team (more than 7 years of experience, on average.)
• Behavioral Health Platform
• Medical, Dental, Vision
• Health Savings Account
• Voluntary Hospital Indemnity (Critical Illness & Accident)
• Voluntary Term Life Insurance
• 401K
• Sick Pay (for applicable states/municipalities)
• Commuter Benefits (Dallas, NYC, SF, and Illinois)

For multiple years running, Genesis10 has been recognized as a Top Staffing Firm in the U.S., as a Best Company for Work-Life Balance, as a Best Company for Career Growth, for Diversity, and for Leadership, amongst others. To learn more and to view all our available career opportunities, please visit us at our website.

Genesis10 is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Candidates will receive consideration without regard to their race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.