We are Software Mind, an awesome team of engineers who are ready to ramp up any top-notch company’s projects! We are Software Mind, an awesome team of engineers who are ready to ramp up any top-notch company’s projects! Our client is a leading enterprise software company building highly scalable cloud-native platforms used by organizations around the world.

Their engineering teams focus on delivering reliable, secure, and high-performing services while embracing modern DevOps, Kubernetes, and cloud technologies. You will join a team responsible for ensuring the stability, reliability, and operational excellence of a critical UI service running in production.

Contract Duration

Initial contract through the end of 2026, extending the engagement to a total 12-month term based on performance. This is a Senior SRE role supporting production reliability for a Kubernetes-based UI service / AI experience framework stack. This is not general infrastructure, and it is not a front-end developer role.

The strongest candidates will have production SRE experience across Kubernetes operations, observability, Node.js runtime troubleshooting, JVM / Java service troubleshooting, Splunk, and incident ownership. Support the deployment, operation, and reliability of production services running on Kubernetes. Monitor service health and investigate production incidents across distributed applications.

Participate in on-call support, incident response, root cause analysis, postmortems, and reliability improvements. Troubleshoot application runtime, networking, and service-to-service issues in collaboration with engineering teams. Support CI/CD, GitOps-based deployments, observability, and production monitoring. 5+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps,



Platform Engineering, Production Engineering, or a closely related role, including solid recent hands-on experience supporting Kubernetes-based production services. ~3+ years of hands-on production Kubernetes experience strongly preferred.

Kubernetes production operations, including deployment, scaling, rollout / rollback, resource tuning, and service-to-service troubleshooting ~ Strong production incident response experience, including on-call, runbooks, postmortems, and paging hygiene ~ Splunk experience for log aggregation, search, and production troubleshooting ~ Prometheus and Grafana experience, specifically building alert rules and dashboards, not only using existing dashboards ~ CI/CD and infrastructure-as-code for containerized deployments, including Helm and GitOps tools such as ArgoCD or Flux ~ Strong Linux and networking fundamentals, including DNS, load balancing, TCP / and Kubernetes networking ~ Production troubleshooting experience across Node.js and JVM/Java services, with strong depth in at least one runtime environment.

Experience may include Node.js heap snapshots, CPU profiling, event-loop and memory analysis, as well as JVM GC log analysis, thread dumps, JVM tuning, and Java service latency investigation. ~ Service-to-service authentication experience, including mTLS, certificate rotation, certificate format conversion, and JWT-based service authentication Web Components / Lit experience, to perform first-level debugging of UI-related issues Canary rollout / multi-version production operations Competitive salary and laptop Professional development and training opportunities Flexible work arrangements and collaborative team environment Impact on organization-wide digital transformation initiatives #

📌 Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) - Kubernetes (Montreal)
🏢 Software Mind Americas
📍 Montreal