Remote SRE

Post Date

Jan 12, 2026

Location

Cincinnati,
Ohio

ZIP/Postal Code

45227
US
Mar 14, 2026 Insight Global

Job Type

Contract

Category

Programmer / Developer

Req #

CIN-cc4e0fcd-5c57-4135-80f7-5b7be73b8d1c

Pay Rate

$56 - $70 (hourly estimate)

Job Description

A large financial organization is seeking a Remote SRE for a contract opportunity through the end of the year. This position can sit remotely, but must be able to work EST.

This individual will be brought on to automate tasks, monitor system health, manage incidents, and ensure systems meet reliability targets like uptime and performance for the company’s embedded payment processing solution.

Key responsibilities:
• Build and maintain the production infrastructure and services.
• Ensure proper security for the infrastructure.
• Troubleshoot production issues.
• Develop/maintain processes, tools, and documentation in support of production.
• Participate in the evaluation of new software, hardware, and infrastructure solutions.
• Experience as a er working with large distributed systems
• Experience with a variety of scripting languages for automating tasks, generating reports, and creating tools (e.g. Go, Java, Python, Perl, Shell)
• Experience with a continuous integration and delivery model of deploying software
• Automation skills with Chef, Puppet, Ansible, SaltStack or similar
• Experience with one or more of the following: PHP, Go, Python, Scala, Ruby, Javascript, Memcached, LAMP, nginx, node.js, nosql, Varnish
• Working knowledge of software development methodologies including code profiling, regression testing, continuous integration and push button deployments
• Experience as either a LAMP stack software developer and/or systems administrator/systems engineer
• Experience with high-availability, high-performance, open source web technologies
• Experience with cloud platforms, open source databases and caching layers
• Automates all infrastructure build out in AWS utilizing Ansible, Packer, and Terraform
• Distributed Systems, DFS, Kubernetes (k8s), Sarm, Mesosphere, Docker, Services Discovery, Container Orchestration, DFW, Apache, SPark, Hadoop, CLI, API, DevOps, Consul, vault, and microservice.

We are a company committed to creating diverse and inclusive environments where people can bring their full, authentic selves to work every day. We are an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer that believes everyone matters. Qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment regardless of their race, color, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, marital status, national origin, ancestry, genetic factors, age, disability, protected veteran status, military or uniformed service member status, or any other status or characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations, and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or recruiting process, please send a request to HR@insightglobal.com.To learn more about how we collect, keep, and process your private information, please review Insight Global's Workforce Privacy Policy: https://insightglobal.com/workforce-privacy-policy/.

Required Skills & Experience

• 5+ years of SRE
• Must come from a software development background - Java/Go/Python or Ruby
• AWS (multi-region, scaling, DR)
• Terraform or similar automation tooling (ci/cd, release validation)
• Dynatrace (for monitoring) AND Splunk (for logging)
• Distributed System Design

Nice to Have Skills & Experience

• Experience working with RTP (real time payments) OR Building services/ scaling payment services
• Familiarity with SLAs, SLIs, SLOs
• Grafana
• Snowflake
• FedNow experience
• Stablecoins (crypto) experience

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.