Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Dice is offering a contract opportunity for a Senior SRE / DevOps Engineer. The role focuses on infrastructure engineering for Kubernetes platforms built on VMware Tanzu/VKS, VMware vSphere and NSX, GitOps, infrastructure as code, and automation, with occasional collaboration with application teams on Kubernetes best practices.

Responsibilities

• Primarily heads-down infrastructure work within the infrastructure team
• Occasional collaboration with app teams to advise on Kubernetes best practices (not a heavy collaboration role)
• Proactively engages — does not wait to be assigned work; asks for Jira tasks
• Shows up to all team meetings and is communicative about what they''''re delivering
• Builds working relationships with team members through 1:1s
• Resolves access/onboarding issues quickly and independently
• Demonstrates output within the first 2 weeks — hiring manager flagged past contractor issues where remote workers under-delivered and milked hours

Skills

• Seattle, WA, United States
• Must be available PST hours
• This is a W2 only role — C2C, C2H will not be considered
• Kubernetes (VKS / VMware Tanzu) — this is the primary focus. Vanilla Kubernetes experience alone is not sufficient; candidates must have hands-on experience with the VMware flavor (Tanzu) and ideally VMware Kubernetes Service (VKS)
• VMware/vSphere 8 foundational knowledge — the platform sits on NSX networking, so understanding of VMware''''s network virtualization layer is important. Candidates without any VMware background will be at a disadvantage
• GitOps mindset — strong GitHub/GitOps experience is essential. The team is rapidly maturing its GitOps practices and treats all infrastructure as code
• IaC tools — Terraform and Ansible are in active use. Python and Shell scripting are the primary automation languages; YAML fluency is a given in this environment
• Understanding container networking in this context is important
• Terraform, Ansible
• Python, Shell
• Remote or hybrid — Seattle office preferred for local candidates but not required
• Must be available during PST business hours regardless of location
• Carvel ecosystem experience is a plus

Benefits

• Remote or hybrid work arrangement; Seattle office preferred for local candidates but not required

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