DevSecOps - Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) / US Gov

Responsibilities

• Design, automate, deploy, and operate highly reliable cloud systems supporting mission-critical workloads for U.S. Government customers.
• Ensure reliability and operability of platform in production, making systems observable, fault-tolerant, and requiring minimal manual intervention.
• Build and evolve automated deployment pipelines, hardened runtime environments, and repeatable infrastructure patterns for secure, scalable operations in regulated environments.
• Support and improve deployments to air-gapped networks.
• Define and implement best practices for availability, latency, incident response, and service-level objectives (SLOs).
• Participate in incident response and 24/7 on-call rotation, eliminating toil through automation.

Technical Skills

• Strong experience with Kubernetes and containerized workloads in production environments.
• Hands-on experience operating clusters in AWS EKS, Rancher, or similar platforms.
• Experience supporting GovCloud, IL-enclave, or C2E environments.
• Deep experience with CI/CD systems and deployment automation (GitLab preferred).
• Proficiency in Python and Infrastructure-as-Code tools (Terraform or similar).
• Experience with observability platforms (Grafana LGTM stack, Datadog, or equivalent).
• Strong understanding of distributed systems, APIs, databases, caching, and event-driven architectures.
• Solid networking fundamentals (VPCs, VPNs, load balancers, TLS, service connectivity).
• Experience with Linux/Unix systems.
• Familiarity with cloud security best practices, enclave boundaries, and secure system design.
• Experience with identity and access management (AWS IAM, Auth0, Keycloak, ICAM patterns).
• Strong Git fundamentals and experience supporting deployments across multiple classification levels.

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.
• 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.