Principal DevOps, SRE & Application Infrastructure Architect

Job Title: Principal DevOps, SRE & Application Infrastructure Architect Location: Sunnyvale, CA Duration: Contract

Key Responsibilities:
Infrastructure & GitOpsK8s & Containerization: Design| deploy| and optimize secure Docker/Kubernetes (AKS) environments using Helm and ArgoCD.
Networking & Edge: Manage cloud Ingress| Load Balancers| and end-to-end certificate management (SSL/mTLS).CI/CD & Automation: Automate tasks with Shell/Python; build GitOps pipelines and manage schema migrations via Flyway.SRE & Observability Reliability: Own end-to-end production availability and performance; define and track SLAs/SLOs/SLIs and error budgets.
Telemetry: Build observability stacks using OpenTelemetry| Prometheus| Grafana| and Splunk.
Incident Management: Lead P0/P1 incident response| deep-dive distributed system debugging| RCAs| and on-call rotations.
Application & Database Operations Polyglot DB Management: Design and operate high-availability cloud database infrastructure (Oracle| Postgres| Cassandra| Couchbase| Redis| CockroachDB).
Data Replication & DR: Manage Oracle GoldenGate replication| patching| purging| and execute robust P0 Disaster Recovery/failover strategies.
App Support: Perform deep-dive troubleshooting within Java application layers| gRPC| REST/HTTP/JSON| and caching/messaging systems (SNS/SQS| Elasticsearch| Solr).

Required Technical Skills
Orchestration & DevOps: Kubernetes (AKS)| Docker| Helm| ArgoCD| Flyway. Scripting & OS: Strong Linux/Unix internals| Shell scripting| and Python. Observability: OpenTelemetry| Prometheus| Grafana| Splunk. Database & Replication: SQL/PL-SQL (procedures| triggers| tuning)| GoldenGate| NoSQL (Cassandra| Couchbase| Redis)| and Transactional DBs (Oracle| Postgres).App Troubleshooting: Java application debugging| gRPC| REST| and cloud-native caching/queues.

Preferred Skills: Exposure to AliCloud or multi-cloud environments.
Security operations (automated password rotations| IAM privilege management).Strong cross-functional collaboration with security| network| and application teams.

Salary : $60