Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Role: Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

About the Role

We’re seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to support the development and operation of our Kubernetes-based platform in regulated environments. In this role, you’ll collaborate with engineers across the stack to ensure the platform remains reliable, observable, compliant, and easy for developers to use—while maintaining team velocity.

This is a hands-on position centered on strengthening reliability, advancing automation, and driving operational excellence within environments that have rigorous security and compliance standards.

What You Will Do

Own and operate components of the Kubernetes platform, including deployment, upgrades, and maintenance

Contribute to the design and implementation of scalable and reliable platform features

Build and improve automation, tooling, and CI/CD workflows to reduce operational overhead

Monitor system health and respond to issues; participate in on-call rotations and incident response

Contribute to defining and tracking SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets

Support FedRAMP High / IL5 compliance efforts, including system hardening, documentation, and audit readiness

Collabo

rate with senior engineers, technical leaders, and cross-functional teams to deliver platform improvements

Participate in on-call rotations supporting customer requests and paging alerts

Participate in post-incident reviews and implement follow-up improvements

What You Bring

8+ years of experience in SRE, DevOps, or platform engineering

Hands-on experience with Kubernetes and containerized workloads in production

Hands-on experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or similar; GovCloud experience a plus)

Strong working knowledge of Linux systems, networking, and distributed systems fundamentals

Experience with Infrastructure as Code (e.g., Terraform)

Ability to write and maintain scripts or services (e.g., Python, Go, Bash)

Experience with monitoring and observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, logging systems)

Basic understanding of security and compliance concepts (e.g., NIST 800-53, STIGs, RMF)

Nice to Have

Exposure to FedRAMP High or DoD IL5 environments

Experience with CI/CD systems and deployment automation (e.g., ArgoCD)

Familiarity with container security and vulnerability management

Experience working in regulated or audited environments