# Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

**Company:** [Quindar](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/quindar)
**Location:** Arvada, CO
**Role:** DevOps / SRE
**Salary:** $160k – $200k/yr
**Experience:** 3+ years
**Skills:** Kubernetes, Aws Eks, Aws Govcloud, CI/CD, GitLab, Python, Terraform, Grafana, Datadog, Linux, Aws Iam, Git
**Posted:** 2026-05-22

> SRE responsible for designing, automating, and operating reliable cloud infrastructure on AWS GovCloud for U.S. Government customers, with focus on Kubernetes, CI/CD automation, and compliance requirements.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Design, automate, deploy, and operate highly reliable cloud systems supporting mission-critical workloads for U.S. Government customers
- Build and evolve automated deployment pipelines, hardened runtime environments, and repeatable infrastructure patterns for secure and scalable operations in regulated environments
- Support and improve deployments to air-gapped networks, driving consistency, reliability, and performance across all environments
- 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
- Collaborate with frontend, backend, and platform engineers to meet performance, reliability, and mission assurance requirements

## Requirements
- 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
- 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 (TS/SCI); U.S. Citizenship required

## Nice-to-Haves
- Experience working toward ATO/authorization in federal, DoD, or IC environments
- Experience supporting deployments in GovCloud, C2S/C2E, or IL-enclave environments

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