Senior Site Reliability Engineer

One of the world's most iconic entertainment and technology companies is searching for a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to join their Generative AI Engineering team on a hybrid basis in just outside Orlando in Celebration, FL. In this role, you will serve as a cornerstone of a cutting-edge AI platform team, owning the reliability, scalability, and infrastructure strategy behind some of the most innovative generative AI and conversational experience platforms in the industry.

You will lead a team of SREs and DevOps specialists, architecting multi-cloud environments and driving the kind of high-availability, high-traffic infrastructure that operates at true enterprise scale. If you thrive in fast-moving environments and want your work to directly impact AI-powered experiences used by millions, this is the opportunity for you. The team has been clear that strong candidates will bring extensive, hands-on AWS and GCP experience gained in large-scale, high-traffic production environments, not just personal projects.

This exciting opportunity to lead cloud infrastructure for a world-class generative AI platform begins as a 22-month W2 contract offering competitive benefits and the strong potential for extension/conversion. The role is onsite 3-4 days per week in Celebration, FL (32830).

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor a team of Site Reliability Engineers and DevOps specialists, setting technical direction and assigning work within an Agile/Scrum environment
• Architect, design, and maintain multi-cloud infrastructure across GCP (primary), AWS (secondary), and Azure (tertiary) supporting AI and data service workloads at scale
• Design and build Helm charts and Terraform infrastructure configurations to maintain 99.99% annual availability SLAs
• Manage and modernize platform applications including LiteLLM, Open Web UI, Archestra, and Arize AX, while supporting back-end systems such as Kafka, PostgreSQL, Redis, Vault, MongoDB, and n8n
• Plan and implement automated deployment pipelines using Harness, including modern rollout patterns like blue/green deployments, canary releases, and feature flags
• Implement observability, monitoring, alerting, and distributed tracing best practices across platform components using Splunk, OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, and AppDynamics
• Partner with capacity planning teams to ensure infrastructure scalability aligns with expected high-traffic workloads and growth projections
• Provide architectural guidance on solution infrastructure, platform sizing, and volume estimations
• Establish and maintain operational processes including backups, version updates, security patching, and business continuity compliance
• Evaluate and champion emerging DevOps and SRE technologies, influencing reliability strategy across AI and platform engineering teams
• Ensure adherence to enterprise governance, security standards, and identity/data protection compliance frameworks

Skills & Experience

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or equivalent experience required; Master's degree preferred
• 7+ years of SRE, DevOps, or platform engineering experience in large-scale, high-traffic production environments
• Extensive, hands-on experience with both GCP and AWS in production; multi-cloud or hybrid cloud infrastructure management is a must
• Expert-level Kubernetes operations including cluster scaling, uptime management, and Helm-based configuration management
• Advanced proficiency in Terraform and Harness for infrastructure automation and deployment orchestration
• Strong scripting ability in Python, Bash, and YAML for automation and reliability workflows
• Hands-on production experience with PostgreSQL, Redis, Kafka, MongoDB, and Vault
• Deep experience with CI/CD orchestration tools including Harness, GitHub Actions, GitLab, Jenkins, and/or Azure DevOps
• Proficiency with enterprise observability platforms such as Splunk, OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, and AppDynamics
• Strong understanding of system security, identity management, and data protection compliance models
• Proven ability to lead large-scale, infrastructure-focused initiatives and mentor cross-functional engineering teams
• Excellent written communication skills with the ability to translate complex technical concepts for non-technical stakeholders
• Outstanding troubleshooting and diagnostic capabilities across distributed systems

You will receive the following benefits:

• Medical Insurance - Four medical plans to choose from for you and your family
• Dental & Orthodontia Benefits
• Vision Benefits
• Health Savings Account (HSA)
• Health and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts
• Voluntary Life Insurance, Long-Term & Short-Term Disability Insurance
• Hospital Indemnity Insurance
• Paid Sick Time Leave
• Legal and Identity Protection Plans
• Pre-tax Commuter Benefit
• 529 College Saver Plan

Motion Recruitment Partners is an Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability/vets. All applicants must be currently authorized to work on a full-time basis in the country for which they are applying, and no sponsorship is currently available. Employment is subject to the successful completion of a pre-employment screening. Accommodation will be provided in all parts of the hiring process as required under Motion Recruitment Employment Accommodation policy. Applicants need to make their needs known in advance.