Senior Site Reliability Engineer (Arlington, VA)

What You'll Do

• Own the reliability, scalability, and security of the production application and/or platform.
• Implement a world-class observability platform: Design, implement, and manage monitoring, logging, and alerting stack (e.g., Prometheus, Loki, Alloy, Grafana) to create actionable insights and automated alerting.
• Define and uphold reliability: Define, measure, and own alerting that feeds into SLIs and SLOs.
• Lead incident response: Act as incident responder and potentially commander; lead blameless post-mortems/AARs to drive automated long-term solutions.
• Automate for scale and security: Partner with platform engineers to design, build, and manage secure, resilient Kubernetes clusters and cloud/on-prem environments using IaC (Terraform, Ansible); embed RMF, STIGs controls.
• Eliminate toil and scale the team: Proactively identify and eliminate operational toil through automation; share best practices for air-gapped environments.

What We Look For

• Active Top Secret clearance.
• 5+ years in Platform, DevOps, or Site Reliability Engineering with infrastructure and operations focus.
• Proven partner to DevOps/Platform and application teams; collaborates well across functions.
• Deep understanding of incident response processes, root cause analyses, and continuous improvement.

Technical expertise required:

• Infrastructure as Code: Terraform (or CloudFormation), Ansible.
• Containers and orchestration: Kubernetes design, deployment, and operations.
• CI/CD: Building and maintaining pipelines (GitLab CI/CD, Jenkins, GitHub Actions).
• Scripting: Proficiency with Python, Go, or Bash.
• Cloud: AWS or AWS GovCloud.
• Observability: Grafana stack, ELK stack, or Datadog.
• Networking fundamentals: Core protocols and secure configurations.

Nice-to-haves:

• Experience in DoD environments and compliance (RMF, STIGs, ICD 503).
• GitOps practices.
• Security-minded design for sensitive environments.
• Designing/implementing SLIs/SLOs and error budgets.
• On-prem virtualization (VMware, Proxmox, Nutanix, Hyper-V).
• Service mesh (Istio, Linkerd).
• Relevant certifications (AWS DevOps Engineer, CKA/CKAD).
• Active Security+ or DoD 8570.01-approved credential (or ability to obtain within 3 months).