Senior SRE – Contract to Hire

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

⏳ Contract/Temporary

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⛑ DevOps & Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

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Midwestern

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2012

🎯 Recruiter

👥 HR Tech

💼 Consulting

🔥 Funding within the last year

💰 Corporate Round on 2026-06

Recruitment • HR Tech • Consulting

Midwestern is a talent partner focused on the AI era of work. They provide senior, globally sourced and US-led talent as embedded teams, scoped engagements, or recruited hires to help organizations scale capacity, build and ship products, and treat AI as an operating system. Midwestern serves clients from Fortune 500 companies to startups and positions itself as a partner for building teams and executing product and workforce strategies.

📋 Description

• Operate, maintain, and improve production infrastructure in AWS • Build and maintain infrastructure as code using Terraform • Improve monitoring, alerting, dashboards, and service-level indicators using New Relic or comparable observability platforms • Reduce alert noise and identify problems before customers are affected • Participate in the 24/7 on-call rotation and coordinate responses to production incidents • Lead blameless postmortems and ensure corrective actions produce durable improvements • Partner with product engineers to diagnose performance and reliability issues across the application stack • Improve application resilience using timeouts, retries, queuing, backpressure, and idempotency • Improve CI/CD pipelines and deployment practices using GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or CircleCI • Automate repetitive operational work and reduce engineering toil • Create and maintain runbooks, system diagrams, troubleshooting guides, and production documentation • Support capacity planning, performance testing, database reliability, and production-readiness reviews • Collaborate with Security and Engineering on infrastructure hardening, access controls, logging, and compliance-related operational practices • Mentor engineers and promote effective reliability practices across Engineering

🎯 Requirements

• 10+ years of overall software engineering, infrastructure, or systems experience • At least 5 years in an SRE, Platform Engineering, DevOps, or production operations role • Previous professional software development experience • Ability to read, debug, and contribute to application code • Strong hands-on experience operating production workloads in AWS • Experience building and maintaining infrastructure with Terraform or a similar infrastructure-as-code tool • Strong observability skills using New Relic, Datadog, or another modern monitoring platform • Experience with incident response, on-call operations, postmortems, and production troubleshooting • Experience building or maintaining CI/CD pipelines • Working knowledge of networking, Linux, distributed systems, and relational databases • Strong judgment balancing immediate operational needs with long-term maintainability • Clear communication and effective cross-disciplinary collaboration skills • Track record of using automation to improve reliability • Experience with Ruby or Ruby on Rails • Strong PostgreSQL administration or performance-tuning experience • Experience operating enterprise SaaS products at scale • Familiarity with SLOs, SLIs, error budgets, capacity modeling, and load testing • Experience with payments, fintech, or highly regulated systems • Experience supporting SOC 2 or similar security and compliance programs

🏖️ Benefits

• Contract-to-hire arrangement • Remote work within the United States • Occasional in-person collaboration for Seattle-area or West Coast candidates • Shared 24/7 on-call rotation participation • Opportunity to mentor engineers and promote reliability practices

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