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Sr System Engineer

HAYSFL🇺🇸United StatesPosted 20 Jul 2026

Why This Role Stands Out

This hybrid Sr. System Engineer role offers a competitive hourly rate and the chance to leverage your expertise in DevSecOps, Kubernetes, and cloud platforms to enhance critical systems. You'll thrive here if you're a proactive engineer passionate about optimizing infrastructure, driving technological integration, and contributing to exceptional guest experiences, so don't miss out on this exciting opportunity!

Quick Overview

Salary
$70 - $85/hr
Work Type
Hybrid
Level
Mid Senior

Job Description

Sr System Engineer - Contract - Celebration, FL/Hybrid - $70.00 - $85.00/hr

The final salary or hourly wage, as applicable, paid to each candidate/applicant for this position is ultimately dependent on a variety of factors, including, but not limited to, the candidate's/applicant's qualifications, skills, and level of experience as well as the geographical location of the position.

Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States. Sponsorship not available.

Our client is seeking a Sr System Engineer in Celebration, FL

Role Description

We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated Sr Systems Engineer to join a team responsible for maintaining the operational efficiency and reliability of both our shipboard and shoreside systems and services. In this role, you will work at the intersection of technology, guest experience, and operational excellence, ensuring that we continuously minimize downtime and optimize the performance of our infrastructure. You will also drive the seamless integration of advanced technologies in the industry, aligning them with business needs and enhancing customer experiences. This position requires a proven and experienced engineer in DevSecOps, desired state configurations, Kubernetes provisioning and support in both on-prem datacenters and cloud platforms, with a focus on maintaining high availability, scalability, and security in critical systems. Supported platforms include, but aren't limited to web applications, mobile applications, POS systems, payment gateways, reservation systems, safety systems, and order management. You will also collaborate with various teams to deliver industry-leading solutions that exceed guest expectations.

Design, analyze, evaluate, test, debug and implement applications supporting company business processes and operations
Analyze, install, acquire, modify, and support operating systems, database, or utilities software
Plan, conduct, and direct the analysis of business problems to be solved with automated systems within a small scope or as directed.
Contribute to the development, testing, evaluation or design of system or infrastructure architecture used throughout the IT solution set
Advanced knowledge of code for desktop applications, software APIs, and automation for use by internal engineering and creative partners
Aid in guiding teammates in the analysis and organization of common business problems to be solved with automated systems
You will be expected to stay up to date with emerging technologies

Skills & Requirements

Minimum 5 years of related work experience
Technical experience in consumer and employee facing systems
Ability to troubleshoot applications and systems
Expertise in maintaining web, caching, and queuing technologies in large high traffic environments.
Expertise in architecting highly scalable and highly available systems
Expertise in a public cloud (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform)
Proficiency with containerization
Proficiency in a programming language (Powershell, Python, Ruby, etc)
Proficiency with distributed version control systems (e.g., GIT) with Continuous Integration/Deployment techniques (Azure DevOps, Jenkins, Harness, etc)
Proficiency supporting SQL & Oracle technologies
Comfortable working in an agile environment
Proficiency in Kubernetes & Rancher, VMWare, DevSecOps, and Automation, with a proactive demeanor towards continuous learning and skill development, and an interest in mastering emerging data engineering tools and methodologies
Bachelor's or Equivalent Work Experience
Experience in the industry or similar high-availability, customer-centric industries.
Certifications in AWS, Azure, VMware, Kubernetes, or related cloud technologies.
RedHat OpenShift experience preferred
Familiarity with ITIL or other IT service management frameworks
Supported Technologies:
Terraform/Atlantis
AWS Cloud (Fargate, ECS, Lambdas, ApiGateways, EC2, S3, ALB/ELB, Elasticache, EKS, KMS-Secret Manager, VPCs, IAM)
Logging/Monitoring/Alerting (Cloudwatch/Splunk/AppDynamics/Elasticache/Grafana)
Rundeck, Chef, Ansible, Vault, AWX, Azure DevOps
MessageQueueing: RabbitMQ, PubSub
OpenShift, Kubernetes
Load balancers, Akamai
Languages: Go/Python/ Node.js (Angular.js framework)/Java (Spring MVC)
Certifications in AWS, Azure, VMware, Kubernetes

Benefits/Other Compensation

This position is a contract/temporary role where Hays offers you the opportunity to enroll in full medical benefits, dental benefits, vision benefits, 401K and Life Insurance ($20,000 benefit).

Why Hays?

You will be working with a professional recruiter who has intimate knowledge of the industry and market trends. Your Hays recruiter will lead you through a thorough screening process in order to understand your skills, experience, needs, and drivers. You will also get support on resume writing, interview tips, and career planning, so when there's a position you really want, you're fully prepared to get it.

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Hays is committed to building a thriving culture of diversity that embraces people with different backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences. We believe that the more inclusive we are, the better we serve our candidates, clients, and employees. We are an equal employment opportunity employer, and we comply with all applicable laws prohibiting discrimination based on race, color, creed, sex (including pregnancy, sexual orientation, or gender identity), age, national origin or ancestry, physical or mental disability, veteran status, marital status, genetic information, HIV-positive status, as well as any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law. One of Hays' guiding principles is 'do the right thing'.
We also believe that actions speak louder than words.
In that regard, we train our staff on ensuring inclusivity throughout the entire recruitment process and counsel our clients on these principles. If you have any questions about Hays or any of our processes, please contact us.

In accordance with applicable federal, state, and local law protecting qualified individuals with known disabilities, Hays will attempt to reasonably accommodate those individuals unless doing so would create an undue hardship on the company. Any qualified applicant or consultant with a disability who requires an accommodation in order to perform the essential functions of the job should call or text .

Drug testing may be required; please contact a recruiter for more information.

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Skills

Node.js
Oracle
Ruby
SQL
Spring
AWS
Splunk
Agile
Angular
Ansible
Azure
Chef
Git
Google Cloud
Grafana
Java
Jenkins
Kubernetes
PowerShell
Python
RabbitMQ
Terraform
VMware
Vault

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