Site Reliability Engineer III

Job Title: Site Reliability Engineer III

Employment Type: Contract-to-Hire

Workplace Type: Hybrid - 2 days per week onsite in Reston, VA

Position Overview

Please note this role is not open to sponsorship, visa transfer, or C2C partnership with a vendor.

Our client, a global leader in internet infrastructure services, is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer III to join the team responsible for building, operating, and maintaining a private cloud platform that supports mission-critical services. This role is ideal for a hands-on infrastructure professional who enjoys solving complex technical challenges, improving platform reliability, and working in a large-scale Linux environment.

The team values engineers who demonstrate initiative, strong troubleshooting capabilities, technical curiosity, and a collaborative mindset. You'll play a key role in maintaining highly available systems while helping drive operational excellence across a critical private cloud environment.

Primary Responsibilities

• Build, operate, and maintain a private cloud infrastructure platform.
• Monitor platform health and respond to operational alerts.
• Troubleshoot platform, infrastructure, and user-related issues.
• Document troubleshooting processes, resolutions, and operational procedures.
• Support platform patching and ongoing maintenance activities.
• Ensure compliance with vulnerability management and information security standards.
• Help maintain highly available and reliable production services.
• Participate in a Tier 3 on-call support rotation (approximately once per month after onboarding and training).
• Collaborate with engineering and operations teams to improve platform stability, automation, and service reliability.

Required Skills

• 5+ years of relevant IT infrastructure, systems administration, or site reliability engineering experience.
• Strong Linux systems administration experience in a large-scale production environment.
• Experience administering Linux distributions such as RHEL, CentOS, and/or Ubuntu.
• Strong troubleshooting and root-cause analysis skills.
• Experience with shell scripting and automation.
• Experience with Python and Ansible.
• Experience maintaining highly available production services.
• Understanding of network protocols and infrastructure fundamentals.
• Knowledge of security best practices and vulnerability management processes.
• Experience using development and operational tools such as GitHub and Jira.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, a related technical field, or equivalent combination of education and experience.

Preferred Skills

• Experience with OpenStack configuration and administration.
• Prior experience developing, operating, or supporting an OpenStack platform in a production environment.
• Experience working within private cloud environments.
• Additional Linux platform expertise across multiple enterprise distributions.

Why This Opportunity

This is an opportunity to support infrastructure that underpins critical internet services used around the world. You'll work alongside experienced engineers responsible for a large-scale private cloud platform, gain exposure to highly available production systems, and contribute to reliability, automation, security, and operational excellence initiatives. The hybrid work model provides a balance of collaboration and flexibility while allowing engineers to make a meaningful impact on core infrastructure services.

This is a Contract to Hire position based out of Reston, VA.

The pay range for this position is $55.00 - $70.00/hr.

Individual compensation offered for this position within this range will depend on many factors, including qualifications, skills, relevant experience, job knowledge, geographic location, internal equity, and other pertinent job-related factors.

Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on your job classification and length of employment. Benefits are subject to change and may be subject to specific elections, plan, or program terms. If eligible, the benefits available for this temporary role may include the following: Medical, dental & vision Critical Illness, Accident, and Hospital 401(k) Retirement Plan Pre-tax and Roth post-tax contributions available Life Insurance (Voluntary Life & AD&D for the employee and dependents) Short and long-term disability Health Spending Account (HSA) Transportation benefits Employee Assistance Program Time Off/Leave (PTO, Vacation or Sick Leave)

This is a Contract to Hire position based out of Reston, VA.

This position is anticipated to close on Nov 25, 2026.

This is a hybrid position in Reston,VA.

About TEKsystems

We're partners in transformation. We help clients activate ideas and solutions to take advantage of a new world of opportunity. We are a team of 80,000 strong, working with over 6,000 clients, including 80% of the Fortune 500, across North America, Europe and Asia. As an industry leader in Full-Stack Technology Services, Talent Services, and real-world application, we work with progressive leaders to drive change. That's the power of true partnership. TEKsystems is an Allegis Group company.

The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regards to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.

About TEKsystems and TEKsystems Global Services

Were a leading provider of business and technology services. We accelerate business transformation for our customers. Our expertise in strategy, design, execution and operations unlocks business value through a range of solutions. Were a team of 80,000 strong, working with over 6,000 customers, including 80% of the Fortune 500 across North America, Europe and Asia, who partner with us for our scale, full-stack capabilities and speed. Were strategic thinkers, hands-on collaborators, helping customers capitalize on change and master the momentum of technology. Were building tomorrow by delivering business outcomes and making positive impacts in our global communities. TEKsystems and TEKsystems Global Services are Allegis Group companies. Learn more at TEKsystems.com.

The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regard to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.

San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance: Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, for all positions located in the city and county of San Francisco, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

Massachusetts Lie Detector: It is unlawful in Massachusetts to require or administer a lie detector test as a condition of employment or continued employment. An employer who violates this law shall be subject to criminal penalties and civil liability.

Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI): We may use Artificial Intelligence (AI) to support parts of our hiring process, including sourcing, screening, and evaluating candidates. AI helps assess applications and qualifications, but final decisions are made by our hiring team. By applying, you acknowledge and agree that your application may be reviewed using AI tools.