# Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Colorado Springs

**Company:** [Onebrief](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/onebrief)
**Location:** Colorado Springs, CO
**Role:** DevOps / SRE
**Salary:** $180k – $220k/yr
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** Kubernetes, Terraform, Ansible, AWS, Aws Govcloud, Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Gitlab Ci/Cd, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Python, Go, Bash, Datadog
**Posted:** 2026-09-03

> Own reliability, scalability, security, observability, and incident response for mission-critical applications across Kubernetes, AWS, and on-premise DoD environments. Requires an active Top Secret clearance and at least five years of infrastructure-focused SRE, DevOps, or platform engineering experience.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Own the reliability, scalability, and security of production applications and platforms.
- Design, implement, and manage monitoring, logging, and alerting using tools such as Prometheus, Loki, Alloy, and Grafana.
- Define and maintain Service Level Indicators (SLIs), Service Level Objectives (SLOs), alerting, and error budgets.
- Lead incident response, serve as incident commander when needed, and conduct blameless postmortems and After Action Reviews.
- Build automation to eliminate operational toil and improve deployment and management of on-premise systems.
- Partner with platform and application teams to design and operate secure Kubernetes clusters and AWS cloud/on-premise environments.
- Embed RMF and STIG security and compliance controls into infrastructure automation.
- Share best practices for air-gapped environments and production readiness.

## Requirements
- Active Top Secret clearance; SCI eligibility is a plus.
- 5+ years of experience in Platform, DevOps, or Site Reliability Engineering with an infrastructure and operations focus.
- Experience with incident response, root-cause analysis, and continuous improvement.
- Expertise with Terraform or CloudFormation and Ansible.
- Experience designing, deploying, and operating Kubernetes environments.
- Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines with GitLab CI/CD, Jenkins, or GitHub Actions.
- Proficiency in at least one of Python, Go, or Bash.
- Familiarity with AWS or AWS GovCloud.
- Experience with observability tools such as the Grafana stack, ELK stack, or Datadog.
- Understanding of networking fundamentals, core protocols, and secure configurations.
- Ability to work on-site at customer locations in Colorado Springs, Colorado; relocation assistance is available for candidates outside commuting distance.

## Nice-to-Haves
- Experience in Department of Defense environments and compliance frameworks such as RMF, STIGs, or ICD 503.
- GitOps practices and toolchains.
- Security-minded design for sensitive environments.
- Experience designing meaningful SLIs and SLOs for complex distributed systems.
- Familiarity with on-premise virtualization platforms such as VMware, Proxmox, Nutanix, or Hyper-V.
- Service mesh experience with Istio or Linkerd.
- Certifications such as AWS DevOps Engineer, CKA, or CKAD.
- Active Security+ or another DoD 8570.01-approved security credential, or the ability to obtain one within three months of employment.

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