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Get Access To All JobsTitle: Cloud Infrastructure & SRE Engineer with GCP Experience
(only W2 Position – No C2C Accepted)
Description:
STG is a SEI CMMi Level 5 company with several Fortune 500 and State Government clients. STG has an opening for Cloud Infrastructure & SRE Engineer with GCP Experience. Please note that this project assignment is with our own direct clients. We do not go through any vendors. STG only does business with direct end clients. This is expected to be a long-term position. STG will provide immigration and permanent residency sponsorship assistance to those candidates who need it.
Position Description:
Cloud Infrastructure & SRE Engineer
Overview
Platform Engineering builds and operates shared infrastructure and paved paths that help product teams deliver securely, reliably, and quickly. This role leans toward cloud infrastructure, DevOps, and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), with strong software development skills.
What you’ll do
- Design, build, and operate cloud infrastructure and platform capabilities (networking, compute, Kubernetes, CI/CD, secrets, certificates, identity).
- Define and improve reliability using service-level indicators (SLIs), service-level objectives (SLOs), and error budgets.
- Implement observability (metrics, logs, traces) with actionable alerting focused on user impact.
- Create self-service workflows and automation (infrastructure as code, GitOps, build/release pipelines) that reduce toil.
- Improve security and compliance through least-privilege access, secure defaults, policy-as-code, and continuous hardening.
- Participate in on-call rotation, incident response, and post-incident reviews; drive systemic fixes and runbook quality.
- Partner with application teams to improve deployability, resilience, and cost efficiency (capacity planning, autoscaling, graceful degradation).
What we’re looking for
Required
- Experience operating production cloud platforms and services (e.g., GCP/AWS/Azure) with an SRE mindset.
- Strong fundamentals in Linux, networking, distributed systems, and debugging complex production issues.
- Proficiency with infrastructure as code and automation (e.g., Terraform, Helm/Kustomize, GitOps tooling).
- Experience with containers and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes) and modern CI/CD.
- Programming and scripting ability (e.g., Go, Python, Java, TypeScript) to build tooling and automate workflows.
- Clear communication, effective incident leadership, and a customer-focused approach to platform work.
Preferred
- Experience defining SLIs/SLOs and implementing SLO-based alerting and dashboards.
- Observability platform experience (e.g., Prometheus/Grafana, OpenTelemetry, centralized logging).
- Policy-as-code and supply chain security (e.g., OPA/Rego, SLSA concepts, SBOMs, artifact signing).
- Experience building golden paths (container images, templates, reference architectures, paved pipelines) adopted by multiple teams.
- Cost optimization experience (FinOps practices, capacity forecasting, right-sizing, multi-tenant platform controls).
How we work
- Automate first: eliminate repeatable manual work; measure and reduce toil.
- Reliability is a feature: design for failure with timeouts, retries with jitter, idempotency, and graceful degradation.
- Small, safe changes: incremental delivery, clear rollback strategies, and continuous improvement.
- Engineering excellence: design reviews, blameless postmortems, and strong documentation/runbooks.
What success looks like
- Platform capabilities are easy to adopt, well-documented, and measurably reduce lead time for change.
- Reliability improves over time (SLO attainment, reduced incident frequency/severity, faster MTTR).
- Security posture improves via secure-by-default patterns and automated controls.
Skills Required:
Cloud Infrastructure, Python, GCP, Platform Support, Kubernetes
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Cloud Infrastructure
Expectation: A candidate has provisioned and operated production-grade infrastructure on a major cloud provider. For example, they designed a multi-region GCP network topology using VPCs, subnets, firewall rules, and Cloud NAT, managed with Terraform and deployed via a GitOps pipeline. They understand networking primitives, IAM boundaries, compute options, and can explain tradeoffs between managed services vs. self-hosted.
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Python
Expectation: A candidate has written production Python tooling or automation. For example, a script that queries the GCP Asset Inventory API to identify over-provisioned IAM bindings, generates a report, and opens a Jira ticket for remediation. Code is structured, testable (pytest), and handles errors and retries gracefully. Not just glue scripts, but maintainable tools used by a team.
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GCP
Expectation: A candidate has hands-on experience operating GCP services in a real platform context. For example, running workloads on Cloud Run, using Workload Identity for pod-level IAM, configuring policies, managing secrets in Secret Manager, and setting up VPC Service Controls. They can reason about GCP-specific reliability and security patterns, not just surface-level console familiarity.
Education Required:
Bachelor's degree or equivalent qualification in computer science, engineering or related disciplines
Cloud Infrastructure & SRE Engineer with GCP Experience is based in Dearborn, MI. A great opportunity to experience the corporate environment leading personal career growth.
Resume Submittal Instructions:
Interested/qualified candidates should email their word formatted resumes to Vasavi Konda – vasavi.konda(.@)stgit.com and/or contact @ (Two-Four-Eight) Seven-One-Two – Six-Seven-Two-Five (@248.712.6725). In the subject line of the email please include: First and Last Name: Cloud Infrastructure & SRE Engineer with GCP Experience.
Sincerely,
Vasavi Konda | Recruiting Specialist
“Opportunities don't happen, you create them.”
Systems Technology Group (STG)
3001 W. Big Beaver Road, Suite 500
Troy, Michigan 48084
Phone: @ (Two-Four-Eight) Seven-One-Two – Six-Seven-Two-Five: @ 248.712.6725(O)
Email: vasavi.konda(.@)stgit.com
Title: Cloud Infrastructure & SRE Engineer with GCP Experience
(only W2 Position – No C2C Accepted)
Description:
STG is a SEI CMMi Level 5 company with several Fortune 500 and State Government clients. STG has an opening for Cloud Infrastructure & SRE Engineer with GCP Experience. Please note that this project assignment is with our own direct clients. We do not go through any vendors. STG only does business with direct end clients. This is expected to be a long-term position. STG will provide immigration and permanent residency sponsorship assistance to those candidates who need it.
Position Description:
Cloud Infrastructure & SRE Engineer
Overview
Platform Engineering builds and operates shared infrastructure and paved paths that help product teams deliver securely, reliably, and quickly. This role leans toward cloud infrastructure, DevOps, and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), with strong software development skills.
What you’ll do
- Design, build, and operate cloud infrastructure and platform capabilities (networking, compute, Kubernetes, CI/CD, secrets, certificates, identity).
- Define and improve reliability using service-level indicators (SLIs), service-level objectives (SLOs), and error budgets.
- Implement observability (metrics, logs, traces) with actionable alerting focused on user impact.
- Create self-service workflows and automation (infrastructure as code, GitOps, build/release pipelines) that reduce toil.
- Improve security and compliance through least-privilege access, secure defaults, policy-as-code, and continuous hardening.
- Participate in on-call rotation, incident response, and post-incident reviews; drive systemic fixes and runbook quality.
- Partner with application teams to improve deployability, resilience, and cost efficiency (capacity planning, autoscaling, graceful degradation).
What we’re looking for
Required
- Experience operating production cloud platforms and services (e.g., GCP/AWS/Azure) with an SRE mindset.
- Strong fundamentals in Linux, networking, distributed systems, and debugging complex production issues.
- Proficiency with infrastructure as code and automation (e.g., Terraform, Helm/Kustomize, GitOps tooling).
- Experience with containers and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes) and modern CI/CD.
- Programming and scripting ability (e.g., Go, Python, Java, TypeScript) to build tooling and automate workflows.
- Clear communication, effective incident leadership, and a customer-focused approach to platform work.
Preferred
- Experience defining SLIs/SLOs and implementing SLO-based alerting and dashboards.
- Observability platform experience (e.g., Prometheus/Grafana, OpenTelemetry, centralized logging).
- Policy-as-code and supply chain security (e.g., OPA/Rego, SLSA concepts, SBOMs, artifact signing).
- Experience building golden paths (container images, templates, reference architectures, paved pipelines) adopted by multiple teams.
- Cost optimization experience (FinOps practices, capacity forecasting, right-sizing, multi-tenant platform controls).
How we work
- Automate first: eliminate repeatable manual work; measure and reduce toil.
- Reliability is a feature: design for failure with timeouts, retries with jitter, idempotency, and graceful degradation.
- Small, safe changes: incremental delivery, clear rollback strategies, and continuous improvement.
- Engineering excellence: design reviews, blameless postmortems, and strong documentation/runbooks.
What success looks like
- Platform capabilities are easy to adopt, well-documented, and measurably reduce lead time for change.
- Reliability improves over time (SLO attainment, reduced incident frequency/severity, faster MTTR).
- Security posture improves via secure-by-default patterns and automated controls.
Skills Required:
Cloud Infrastructure, Python, GCP, Platform Support, Kubernetes
-
Cloud Infrastructure
Expectation: A candidate has provisioned and operated production-grade infrastructure on a major cloud provider. For example, they designed a multi-region GCP network topology using VPCs, subnets, firewall rules, and Cloud NAT, managed with Terraform and deployed via a GitOps pipeline. They understand networking primitives, IAM boundaries, compute options, and can explain tradeoffs between managed services vs. self-hosted.
-
Python
Expectation: A candidate has written production Python tooling or automation. For example, a script that queries the GCP Asset Inventory API to identify over-provisioned IAM bindings, generates a report, and opens a Jira ticket for remediation. Code is structured, testable (pytest), and handles errors and retries gracefully. Not just glue scripts, but maintainable tools used by a team.
-
GCP
Expectation: A candidate has hands-on experience operating GCP services in a real platform context. For example, running workloads on Cloud Run, using Workload Identity for pod-level IAM, configuring policies, managing secrets in Secret Manager, and setting up VPC Service Controls. They can reason about GCP-specific reliability and security patterns, not just surface-level console familiarity.
Education Required:
Bachelor's degree or equivalent qualification in computer science, engineering or related disciplines
Cloud Infrastructure & SRE Engineer with GCP Experience is based in Dearborn, MI. A great opportunity to experience the corporate environment leading personal career growth.
Resume Submittal Instructions:
Interested/qualified candidates should email their word formatted resumes to Vasavi Konda – vasavi.konda(.@)stgit.com and/or contact @ (Two-Four-Eight) Seven-One-Two – Six-Seven-Two-Five (@248.712.6725). In the subject line of the email please include: First and Last Name: Cloud Infrastructure & SRE Engineer with GCP Experience.
Sincerely,
Vasavi Konda | Recruiting Specialist
“Opportunities don't happen, you create them.”
Systems Technology Group (STG)
3001 W. Big Beaver Road, Suite 500
Troy, Michigan 48084
Phone: @ (Two-Four-Eight) Seven-One-Two – Six-Seven-Two-Five: @ 248.712.6725(O)
Email: vasavi.konda(.@)stgit.com
How to Get Visa Sponsorship as a Sre Engineer
Lead with infrastructure experience, not just software skills
SRE hiring managers prioritize candidates who can demonstrate reliability engineering work, not general coding ability. Highlight specific projects involving uptime metrics, on-call rotations, or incident postmortems to show you understand production operations.
Target companies with existing OPT and H-1B sponsorship history
Larger tech firms and cloud-native companies sponsor SRE roles at higher rates than startups. Focus your search on employers with a documented history of sponsoring work visas, which signals familiarity with OPT authorization and willingness to sponsor H-1B afterward.
Certify in cloud platforms before applying
AWS, GCP, or Azure certifications materially strengthen SRE applications. They signal baseline infrastructure competency employers expect and reduce onboarding risk, which matters to sponsors weighing the added cost and effort of supporting an OPT authorization process.
Be explicit about your OPT timeline in early conversations
SRE roles often involve long onboarding ramps. Recruiters need to know your OPT end date and whether STEM extension applies so they can assess H-1B sponsorship timing. Raising this early avoids late-stage withdrawals after investing in technical rounds.
Showcase on-call and production ownership experience
Employers sponsoring SRE roles want evidence you can own services end-to-end, not just contribute to them. Document any experience you have managing production systems, responding to alerts, or leading reliability improvements, even from internships or university projects.
Use Migrate Mate to filter for OPT-friendly SRE openings
Searching broadly wastes time on roles that won't consider OPT candidates. Migrate Mate surfaces SRE positions from employers already open to sponsorship, so you can focus your effort on applications with a realistic path to authorization and eventual H-1B transition.
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Can I work as an SRE Engineer on F-1 OPT?
Yes. SRE Engineer roles qualify for F-1 OPT authorization because the work is directly related to STEM fields like computer science, software engineering, and systems engineering. If your degree is in a qualifying STEM field, you're also eligible for the 24-month STEM OPT extension, giving you up to three years of total OPT work authorization in this role.
Does my SRE job need to be directly related to my degree?
Yes, OPT employment must be directly related to your field of study. For SRE roles, degrees in computer science, electrical engineering, information systems, or related STEM disciplines typically satisfy this requirement. If your degree is in a non-technical field, you should consult your DSO before accepting an SRE position to confirm the connection is defensible.
Which employers are most likely to sponsor SRE Engineers on OPT?
Large technology companies, cloud service providers, and well-funded growth-stage startups are the most active sponsors of SRE roles. Companies running complex distributed systems at scale, such as those in fintech, infrastructure software, and enterprise SaaS, tend to have established processes for supporting OPT and H-1B sponsorship. Migrate Mate lists SRE openings from employers already open to sponsoring international candidates.
Does SRE Engineer work qualify for the STEM OPT extension?
It depends on your degree, not the job title. If your degree appears on the STEM Designated Degree Program List maintained by ICE, you can apply for the 24-month STEM extension. Most computer science, computer engineering, and information technology degrees qualify. The extension requires your employer to enroll in E-Verify and submit a formal training plan with your DSO.
What happens to my OPT authorization if I switch SRE employers?
You can change employers on OPT without reapplying, but you must report the change to your DSO within 10 days. Your new SRE role still needs to be directly related to your degree field, and you cannot have gaps in employment exceeding 90 days on standard OPT. STEM OPT has stricter requirements, including a new I-983 training plan and employer E-Verify enrollment for each employer.
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