Senior SRE / DevOps Engineer - Kubernetes, Python & Alibaba Cloud

Title: Senior SRE / DevOps Engineer – Kubernetes, Python & Alibaba Cloud

Location: Austin, TX / Sunnyvale, CA

Position: Contract

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We are looking for an experienced Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) / DevOps Engineer with strong hands-on experience in Kubernetes, Python, and Alibaba Cloud (AliCloud). The ideal candidate will be responsible for building, deploying, automating, and maintaining scalable, highly available, and reliable cloud infrastructure and applications.

The candidate should have extensive experience in container orchestration, cloud infrastructure management, automation, CI/CD pipelines, monitoring, and production support.

Key Responsibilities

- Design, deploy, configure, and manage Kubernetes clusters in production environments.

- Manage containerized applications using Docker and Kubernetes.

- Implement and maintain cloud infrastructure on Alibaba Cloud (AliCloud).

- Develop Python scripts and automation frameworks for infrastructure management and operational tasks.

- Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, GitHub Actions, or similar tools.

- Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform, Ansible, or other automation tools.

- Monitor system performance, availability, scalability, and reliability.

- Implement monitoring and observability solutions using Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack, and other tools.

- Troubleshoot complex production issues and perform root cause analysis (RCA).

- Improve system reliability, performance, scalability, and operational efficiency.

- Manage Kubernetes deployments, Helm charts, services, ingress, networking, and storage.

- Implement security best practices, access management, secrets management, and compliance standards.

- Participate in on-call rotations and production incident management.

- Work closely with development, QA, infrastructure, and architecture teams.

Required Skills

- Strong experience in Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) and DevOps.

- Hands-on experience with Kubernetes and Docker.

- Strong Python programming and automation skills.

- Experience working with Alibaba Cloud (AliCloud).

- Good understanding of Linux/Unix administration.

- Experience with Terraform and Ansible.

- Strong experience with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, GitLab, or GitHub Actions.

- Experience with Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, or similar monitoring tools.

- Knowledge of cloud networking, load balancing, DNS, and security.

- Experience managing production environments and distributed systems.

Preferred Skills

- Experience with Alibaba Cloud Kubernetes Service (ACK).

- Knowledge of Alibaba Cloud ECS, OSS, VPC, SLB, and Container Registry.

- Experience with Helm, ArgoCD, and GitOps.

- Knowledge of microservices architecture.

- Experience with high availability, disaster recovery, and performance optimization.

- Understanding of SRE concepts such as SLIs, SLOs, SLAs, and error budgets.

- Relevant Kubernetes or cloud certifications are a plus.