Hey! We're Scale Up, and our client is looking to hire a Site Reliability Engineer for a 12-month infrastructure modernization project.

Type of Employment: Contractor (12-month project)
Work Modality: 100% Remote
Work Schedule: Full-time
Location: LATAM
Project Duration: Through June 30, 2027

About Our Client

Our client is a fast-paced technology company focused on building reliable, scalable digital products with a strong emphasis on quality and user experience. They work in collaborative agile environments where engineering, product, and infrastructure teams partner closely to modernize large-scale systems while maintaining high service reliability.

About the Role

We're looking for an experienced Site Reliability Engineer to help drive large-scale infrastructure modernization initiatives across legacy and cloud environments.

You'll lead operating system migrations, improve deployment pipelines, modernize monitoring platforms, and provide operational support for mission-critical systems while helping engineering teams successfully transition to modern cloud infrastructure.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead operating system modernization projects across approximately 1,700 systems and virtual machines.
• Execute migrations from RHEL7 to EL8/9 and modernize configuration management.
• Build, maintain, and configure RPM packages.
• Develop automated operational runbooks.
• Improve CI/CD pipelines and deployment reliability.
• Support monitoring and logging migrations to modern observability platforms.
• Provide Tier-2 operational support and incident response.
• Partner with engineering teams during cloud migration initiatives.
• Automate repetitive operational tasks and maintain technical documentation.

Required Qualifications

• 5+ years of Software Engineering or Site Reliability Engineering experience.
• Strong Python programming skills.
• Experience with Linux system administration and OS migrations.
• Experience managing configuration management and software packaging.
• Strong troubleshooting and incident response experience.
• Experience working with CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure automation.

Nice to Have

• Experience migrating monitoring platforms to Prometheus, Grafana, or Chronosphere.
• Splunk experience.
• Experience supporting cloud migration initiatives.
• Experience working in large-scale production environments.