Site Reliability Engineer - Public Sector
$140,000–$170,000 year
RemoteUnited States
Job Summary
Deploy and operate Blitzy's self-hosted platform within a customer-controlled, secure cloud environment, managing Kubernetes-based releases, upgrades, and capacity planning for compute-intensive AI workloads. Design observability stacks including logging, metrics, tracing, and alerting that operate fully within the customer's security boundary. Serve as the on-account technical presence by partnering with customer infrastructure, security, and governance teams on provisioning, reviews, and operational escalations. Handle sensitive customer data in accordance with strict security requirements while championing best practices across the deployment. Feed lessons learned back into Blitzy's product and infrastructure roadmap to strengthen the self-hosted offering for future public sector customers.
Required Qualifications
- U.S. citizenship
- ability to complete a customer background/badging process
- 3+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, or Infrastructure Engineering roles
- Strong proficiency in Kubernetes and container orchestration
- hands-on experience deploying software into customer-controlled or restricted environments
- Experience operating in isolated, restricted, or otherwise highly regulated network environments
- Hands-on experience with infrastructure-as-code tools (Terraform, Pulumi, or equivalent)
- experience with at least one major cloud platform
- Deep expertise in observability tooling, incident management, and on-call practices
- Strong scripting and automation skills (Python, Go, Bash, or similar)
- Excellent communication skills
Desired Qualifications
- Experience deploying or operating software in government-accredited or similarly certified cloud environments
- Familiarity with handling sensitive data and security frameworks common to regulated industries
- Experience supporting AI/ML workloads or their supporting infrastructure
- Prior forward-deployed, residency, or embedded-engineer experience at an enterprise customer site
- Prior experience in a high-growth startup environment where you wore multiple hats
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