Ontrac Solutions

Senior Production Engineer (IC4)

Chicago, IL · Senior · Contract

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 35 days ago

AnsibleCI/CDLinuxPrometheusGrafanaSite Reliability EngineeringPlatform EngineeringIncident Response

About the role

Overview We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Senior Production Engineer (IC4) to support a critical customer engagement focused on OS modernization, infrastructure hardening, packaging migration, automation, and production reliability. This role is ideal for an advanced engineering professional capable of leading complex OS modernization
efforts, configuration management migrations, and infrastructure hardening initiatives, while also executing hands-on runbooks, automation, incident response, and service onboarding. The successful candidate will work closely with SRE, platform engineering, application development teams, and customer stakeholders to ensure project success from initial

5+ years of professional software engineering, production engineering, SRE, or infrastructure engineering experience.
Strong hands-on experience with Python.
Experience leading or supporting OS modernization and large-scale Linux migrations, including RHEL7 to EL8/EL9.
Experience with configuration management tools such as Chef, CINC, Ansible, Puppet, or similar platforms.
Experience hardening CI/CD pipelines, observability frameworks, rollout processes, and rollback mechanisms for infrastructure transitions.
Experience onboarding services to monitoring and logging stacks.
Strong automation skills with the ability to reduce repetitive operational work.
Ability to work independently in a fast-moving technical environment with minimal oversight.
Proven experience planning, implementing, or supporting logging and monitoring tools.
Experience with Chronosphere, Prometheus, Grafana, and/or Splunk.

The contractor will be responsible for supporting the technical transition of legacy systems to modern environments.
Key deliverables and operational tasks include:
Migrating and updating configurations across approximately 1,700 systems and virtual machines from RHEL7 to EL8/EL9.
Supporting configuration management transitions, including Chef to CINC migrations.
Transitioning monitoring infrastructure to a modern stack, including Chronosphere, Prometheus, Grafana, and Splunk integrations.
Supporting CI/CD pipeline hardening, release reliability, rollback planning, and production deployment workflows.
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Overview We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Senior Production Engineer (IC4) to support a critical customer engagement focused on OS modernization, infrastructure hardening, packaging migration, automation, and production reliability.

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