Site Reliability Engineer, US Gov
$160,000–$200,000 year
RemoteUnited States
Job Summary
Architect, automate, test, deploy, and maintain highly available cloud infrastructure in AWS GovCloud and AWS C2E with a focus on security, compliance, and operational excellence. Manage Quindar deployments at government sites while defining best practices for availability, latency, and performance. Drive readiness and deployment onto AWS C2E through control implementation, continuous container hardening, and networking requirements. Handle incident management, support a 24/7 on-call rotation, and troubleshoot complex enterprise and mission-critical systems to reduce manual intervention. Collaborate with engineering teams to ensure the Quindar system meets all required performance metrics.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field
- 3+ years of professional experience as an SRE, DevOps, reliability, infrastructure, or platform engineer
- Active U.S. Security Clearance (Secret or higher required; TS/SCI preferred)
- U.S. Citizenship required
- Deep experience with Kubernetes, containerized workloads, and serverless architectures
- Expertise managing Kubernetes clusters with AWS EKS or Rancher as well as with integrating AWS cloud-specific services
- Hands-on experience supporting GovCloud, IL-enclave deployments, or C2E environments
- Experience managing and using observability stacks such as Grafana LGTM, Datadog, etc.
- Proficiency in Python and Terraform (or similar IaC tooling)
- Strong understanding of networking: VPNs, NLB/ALBs, HTTPS, TLS, VPC peering, and CDN integration
- Strong knowledge of designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting API services, distributed NoSQL/relational databases, caching systems, event-driven architectures, and multi-tier systems
- Understanding of Unix/Linux operating systems
- Knowledge of cloud security best practices, enclave boundary protections, enclave-to-enclave interconnects, and cost-efficient architectures
- Experience with identity and access management (Auth0, Keycloak, AWS IAM, or ICAM patterns)
- Strong git fundamentals
- Experience managing software product deployment across multiple classification levels
Desired Qualifications
- Experience working toward ATO/authorization in federal, DoD, or IC environments preferred
- Experience supporting deployments in GovCloud, C2S/C2E, or IL-enclave environments highly desirable
- GitLab Workflows preferred but not required
- TS/SCI preferred
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