Principal Engineer - Platform Engineering

Genesis10 is currently seeking a Principal Engineer - Platform Engineering for a contract position with a Global Financial Institution located in Irving, TX. This is a 12+ month contract opportunity.

This role supports a critical Platform Engineering team responsible for stabilizing, scaling, and operating applications as they move closer to production release. The ideal candidate is a strong DevOps and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) professional with hands-on expertise in observability, incident management, and cloud platforms. This individual will play a leading role in supporting production systems, preventing outages, and improving system reliability through automation and intelligent monitoring.

Responsibilities:

• Lead production support efforts across a portfolio of 20+ applications, ensuring stability, performance, and rapid issue resolution
• Design and build advanced monitoring, alerting, and observability dashboards using tools such as Splunk, Grafana, AppDynamics, and Prometheus
• Proactively identify risks through gap analysis, anomaly detection, and predictive alerting, preventing production incidents before they occur
• Troubleshoot complex production issues across distributed microservices environments, reducing MTTR through deep technical expertise
• Drive adoption of modern SRE practices, including automation, AIOps, and intelligent monitoring solutions
• Support applications running on OpenShift and cloud-native platforms, with a focus on reliability and scalability
• Collaborate closely with development teams during release cycles, providing production-readiness guidance and operational support
• Participate in 24x7 on-call rotation, demonstrating urgency and ownership during incidents
• Mentor and guide engineers, helping elevate team capabilities in SRE, DevOps, and platform engineering practices
• Act as a trusted technical leader, able to quickly switch priorities and manage competing demands in a high-pressure environment

Requirements:

• 10+ years of Platform and production support
• 7+ years of Engineering experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work or consulting experience, training, military experience, education
• 5 years of Redhat Linux, OpenShift, Kubernetes, Java, microservices, Spring Boot, Python experience
• 5 years of Observability dashboard creation experience - Grafana, Splunk, SPLOC, AppDynamics
• 5 years of Observability alerts and Incident handling - AIOPS, Service now, Bigpanda etc
• 4 years of React.js, Apache, Kafka, relational databases experience
• 4 years of distributed systems, microservices architectures, and cloud native platforms experience

Desired skills:

• A genuine, hands-on engineer who can operate across multiple roles (SRE, DevOps, Production Support)
• Strong ability to shift priorities quickly and respond with urgency in critical situations
• Deep understanding of application support in cloud environments, especially OpenShift
• Experience in the financial services industry strongly preferred
• Prior development experience is a plus, particularly in Java-based ecosystems

Pay range: $86.09 - $94.09 per hour

Only candidates available and ready to work directly as Genesis10 employees will be considered for this position.

If you have the described qualifications and are interested in this exciting opportunity, please apply!

Ranked a Top Staffing Firm in the U.S. by Staffing Industry Analysts for six consecutive years, Genesis10 puts thousands of consultants and employees to work across the United States every year in contract, contract-for-hire, and permanent placement roles. With more than 300 active clients, Genesis10 provides access to many of the Fortune 100 firms and a variety of mid-market organizations across the full spectrum of industry verticals.

For contract roles, Genesis10 offers the benefits listed below. If this is a perm-placement opportunity, our recruiter can talk you through the unique benefits offered for that particular client. Benefits of Working with Genesis10:

• Access to hundreds of clients, most who have been working with Genesis10 for 5-20+ years.
• The opportunity to have a career-home in Genesis10; many of our consultants have been working exclusively with Genesis10 for years.
• Access to an experienced, caring recruiting team (more than 7 years of experience, on average.)
• Behavioral Health Platform
• Medical, Dental, Vision
• Health Savings Account
• Voluntary Hospital Indemnity (Critical Illness & Accident)
• Voluntary Term Life Insurance
• 401K
• Sick Pay (for applicable states/municipalities)
• Commuter Benefits (Dallas, NYC, SF, and Illinois)

For multiple years running, Genesis10 has been recognized as a Top Staffing Firm in the U.S., as a Best Company for Work-Life Balance, as a Best Company for Career Growth, for Diversity, and for Leadership, amongst others. To learn more and to view all our available career opportunities, please visit us at our website.

Genesis10 is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Candidates will receive consideration without regard to their race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.