Senior Monitoring/SRE Engineer (REMOTE)
RemoteUnited States
Job Summary
Design, implement, and own the enterprise monitoring and observability architecture spanning infrastructure, applications, and cloud services. Define service level objectives, maintain error budgets for mission-critical systems, and lead incident response with root cause analysis for high-severity outages. Build automated alerting, dashboards, and runbooks to reduce mean time to detect and resolve. Partner with engineering teams to instrument systems, support business disaster continuity and recovery validation, and mentor junior engineers on best practices. Present operational health metrics and improvement roadmaps to program and government leadership while supporting continuous monitoring reporting under FISMA/NIST SP 800-53. Requires 8+ years of experience, public trust clearance, and on-call availability.
Required Qualifications
- Public Trust clearance
- 8 years of experience in systems monitoring, site reliability engineering, or a related operations discipline
- Hands-on experience designing and administering enterprise monitoring/observability platforms (Splunk, SolarWinds, Grafana, Datadog, or similar)
- Strong experience with cloud-native monitoring in AWS (CloudWatch, CloudTrail, or equivalent)
- Demonstrated experience leading incident response and root cause analysis for enterprise production environments
- Experience with AIOps, auto-remediation/self-healing workflows or OpenTelemetry
- Working knowledge of scripting/automation (Python, PowerShell, or Bash) for monitoring and alerting integration
- Strong understanding of ITIL-aligned incident, problem, and availability management practices
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including experience briefing technical and program leadership
- Ability to work collaboratively in a fast-paced environment
- Excellent communication skills and the ability to convey complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders
Desired Qualifications
- Experience working in a federal government IT environment
- Splunk Certified Architect/Admin, AWS Certified DevOps Engineer, or equivalent monitoring/SRE certification
- Experience supporting BDCR/COOP monitoring and DR failover validation for financial systems
- Experience with PagerDuty, Opsgenie, or similar alert-management/on-call platforms
- Familiarity with FedRAMP continuous monitoring (ConMon) reporting requirements
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