# DevSecOps - Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) / US Gov

**Company:** [Quindar](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/quindar)
**Location:** Arvada, CO
**Role:** DevOps / SRE
**Salary:** $160k – $200k/yr
**Experience:** 3+ years
**Skills:** Kubernetes, Aws Eks, Rancher, GitLab, Python, Terraform, Grafana, Datadog, Aws Govcloud, CI/CD, Linux, Aws Iam
**Posted:** 2026-03-31

> Designs, automates, and operates reliable cloud systems and deployment pipelines for US Government mission-critical workloads in AWS GovCloud/C2E. Requires 3+ years SRE/DevOps experience, Kubernetes, IaC, security clearance, and US citizenship.

## Job Description

## 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.

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