Mid-Level Site Reliability Engineer

Post Date

Jan 13, 2026

Location

Irvine,
California

ZIP/Postal Code

92614
US
Mar 16, 2026 Insight Global

Job Type

Contract,Perm Possible

Category

Software Engineering

Req #

OCC-eb259a6d-771b-4cfd-99c4-52eaa9021a87

Pay Rate

$54 - $68 (hourly estimate)

Job Description

One of Insight Global’s customers is looking to onboard a Mid-Level Site Reliability Engineer with strong expertise in modern DevOps practices, cloud infrastructure, observability, and platform security. This role partners directly with product teams to support deployments, build reliable systems, and strengthen platform capabilities across Kubernetes, AWS, and CI/CD pipelines. This individual will be responsible for maintaining and optimizing AWS-based Kubernetes environments, ensuring reliability and security, building, maintaining, and enhancing CI/CD pipelines (ArgoCD, GitOps), and implementing observability using OpenTelemetry. This is a 6-month contract with the possibility of conversion and will be on-site 5 days a week in Irvine, CA.

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Required Skills & Experience

4–6 years of SRE/DevOps engineering experience
Kubernetes platform engineering (multi-cluster, deployment, troubleshooting)
AWS experience (GCP/Azure nice to have)
CI/CD with ArgoCD and GitOps workflows
Infrastructure as Code using Terraform & Helm
OpenTelemetry for metrics, logs, and tracing
Strong scripting with Python
Experience supporting monitoring, reliability, and performance across distributed systems

Nice to Have Skills & Experience

Prometheus or Grafana
Multi-cloud familiarity
Experience with Kafka or event streaming platforms

Benefit packages for this role will start on the 1st day of employment and include medical, dental, and vision insurance, as well as HSA, FSA, and DCFSA account options, and 401k retirement account access with employer matching. Employees in this role are also entitled to paid sick leave and/or other paid time off as provided by applicable law.