Senior SRE

Title: Senior SRE - Platform - Kubernetes Engineer

Location: Houston, TX/Remote

Duration: Full Time

Client: Confidential

Salary Range: $120k-$130K/year

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Experience required: 10 - 12 years of experience

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Job Description

Must Have Technical/Functional Skills:

10+ years of experience in SRE, DevOps, or infrastructure engineering

Strong experience running Kubernetes in production (EKS, AKS, GKE, or upstream)

Hands-on experience working in FedRAMP High and/or DoD IL5 environments

Solid understanding of cloud infrastructure, Linux systems, and networking fundamentals

Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform preferred)

Familiarity with CI/CD systems (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, ArgoCD)

Proficiency in scripting or programming (Python, Go)

Experience building or operating observability platforms (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, ELK)

Working knowledge of compliance frameworks (e.g., NIST 800-53, STIGs, RMF)

Roles & Responsibilities:

Design, build, and operate production-grade Kubernetes platforms in regulated environments

Improve system reliability through automation, thoughtful design, and continuous iteration

Define and drive SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets to guide reliability decisions

Build and evolve CI/CD pipelines that are secure, scalable, and easy to use

Implement robust observability (metrics, logs, traces) to make systems understandable and actionable

Reduce operational toil by automating repetitive processes and improving workflows

Partner with security and compliance teams to meet FedRAMP High and IL5 requirements without sacrificing developer velocity

Support ATO processes, including documentation, controls implementation, and audit readiness Confidential

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

Participate in incident response, blameless postmortems, and continuous improvement efforts

Help shape a platform that engineers enjoy using

Nice to Have

Experience with service mesh technologies (Istio, Linkerd)

Familiarity with policy-as-code (OPA/Gatekeeper, Kyverno)

Experience with GitOps workflows

Exposure to multi-cluster or hybrid cloud architectures

Knowledge of FIPS-compliant systems or DoD Cloud SRG

Relevant certifications (CKA, CKS, cloud provider certs, Security+)