Site Reliability Engineer, US Gov

Responsibilities

• Architect, automate, test, deploy, and maintain highly available cloud infrastructure in AWS GovCloud and AWS C2E, emphasizing security, compliance, and operational excellence.
• Ensure adherence to SOC 2, NIST 800-171, and FedRAMP Moderate controls while supporting cleared environments and workflows.
• Manage deployment and ongoing maintenance of Quindar deployments at government sites.
• Define best practices for availability, latency, and performance across services.
• Drive Quindar’s readiness and deployment onto AWS C2E, including control implementation, continuous container hardening, deployment configuration, and networking requirements.
• Participate in incident management, a 24/7 on-call rotation, and technical troubleshooting of complex enterprise and mission-critical systems.
• Create systems and automation that reduce manual intervention.
• Collaborate with frontend, backend, and flight/mission operations engineers to ensure the Quindar system meets required performance metrics.

Requirements

• Deep experience with Kubernetes, containerized workloads, and serverless architectures.
• Expertise managing Kubernetes clusters with AWS EKS or Rancher and integrating AWS cloud services.
• Hands-on experience supporting GovCloud, IL-enclave deployments, or C2E environments.
• Experience with observability stacks such as Grafana LGTM and Datadog.
• Proficiency in Python and Terraform or similar infrastructure-as-code tooling.
• Strong understanding of VPNs, NLBs/ALBs, HTTPS, TLS, VPC peering, and CDN integration.
• Knowledge of API services, distributed NoSQL and relational databases, caching systems, event-driven architectures, and multi-tier systems.
• Experience with task automation and CI/CD pipeline development; GitLab Workflows preferred.
• Understanding of Unix/Linux operating systems.
• Knowledge of cloud security best practices, enclave boundary protections, enclave-to-enclave interconnects, and cost-efficient architectures.
• Experience with identity and access management, including Auth0, Keycloak, AWS IAM, or ICAM patterns.
• Strong Git fundamentals.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a 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, with TS/SCI preferred.
• U.S. citizenship required.

Nice to Have

• Experience working toward ATO or authorization in federal, DoD, or IC environments.
• Experience supporting deployments in GovCloud, C2S/C2E, or IL-enclave environments.
• Experience managing software product deployment across multiple classification levels.

Compensation and Benefits

• $160,000–$200,000 annual salary.
• Unlimited PTO with a required minimum of 15 days off.
• Most U.S. federal government holidays.
• Quarterly health and wellness benefits.
• Comprehensive health insurance for employees and families, with 100% employee coverage.
• 4% 401(k) matching.
• Annual four-day company offsite.