Site Reliability / DevOps Engineer

Title: DevOps Engineer Pay Rate: $60-70/h Duration: 12 month contract Location: Hybrid (Westlake, TX preferred; Austin, TX secondary) Onsite: Mondays, Wednesdays, ThursdaysRemote: Tuesdays and FridaysCandidate will work remotely until a seat becomes available onsiteInterview: 2 rounds Day-to-Day: Administer, support, monitor, and deploy enterprise systemsDevelop automation scripts to improve operational efficiencyBuild application monitoring dashboards and alerting solutionsProactively identify and resolve infrastructure and application issuesSupport Linux and Windows server environmentsMonitor high-availability, large-scale distributed systemsTroubleshoot networking, database, and system performance issuesCollaborate with teams to improve system reliability and operational processesParticipate in SDLC practices and process improvement initiativesDrive issue resolution within a complex trading ecosystem Job Description: Insight Global is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)/DevOps for a top financial services client. This candidate will be responsible for supporting and maintaining enterprise-level infrastructure within a large-scale, high-availability environment. The ideal candidate will leverage strong systems administration, automation, monitoring, and troubleshooting skills to ensure platform reliability and performance. This role requires hands-on experience across Windows and Linux environments, monitoring tools, scripting languages, and networking technologies. The candidate will proactively build monitoring solutions, automate operational processes, and investigate complex issues across a distributed trading ecosystem while maintaining a strong sense of ownership and customer focus. Must-Haves: • 6-8 years of experience with enterprise level administration and support • 6-8 years of experience in writing automation scripts, building application dashboards for proactive monitoring, setting up alerts for early determination of the issues in Grafana, Influx, Datadog, Moog, ThousandEyes etc.. • 6-8 years of experience practicing SDLC (Software Development Lifecycle) practice, process improvements • Hands on enterprise systems administration, monitoring, and deployment activities • Experience with Windows 2016, 2019, 2022 hosted via Virtual Machine • Knowledge of IP networking including DNS, DHCP, firewalls, IP routing, etc. • Familiarity with large scale distributed systems and high-availability architectures • Linux and Windows system administration, troubleshooting, and tuning • Development experience in one or more or programming languages such as .Net, C#, Powershell, Yaml, Java, Python, Bash • Knowledge of one or more of SQL, Oracle, MongoDB, Postgres databases • Bachelor's degree in computer science or related discipline Plusses: • Financial services industry experience • Agile methodologies