Site Reliability Engineer

Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

GDIT is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to help ensure the resilience, performance, and reliability of mission-critical Defense systems. In this role, you will blend software engineering, automation, and operations expertise to build scalable platforms, reduce toil, and enable high-velocity delivery.

How You'll Make an Impact:

• Build/Design and maintain highly available, scalable systems across cloud and on-prem environments.
• Develop automation solutions that improves observability, speeds recovery, and eliminates manual operational work.
• Implement monitoring, alerting, and performance tuning strategies that ensure system health.
• Collaborate with development and infrastructure teams to design reliable architectures and CI/CD pipelines.
• Conduct root cause analysis and drive systemic improvements to prevent future incidents.
• Champion SRE best practices such as SLIs/SLOs, error budgets, and automated incident response.
• Provide inputs into proposal operations in area of subject matter expertise, collaborating on solution elements and providing written narratives that describe technical solution elements designed for a specific opportunity

What You'll Need to Succeed:

• Required Work Experience: 15+ years in this space; system reliability, DevSecOps, cloud operations, or infrastructure engineering.
• Education: Bachelor's with 15 years or an additional 4 years of work experience in lieu of degree
• Strong scripting and automation skills (Python, Bash, PowerShell, etc.).
• Hands-on experience with monitoring tools (Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, ELK, Datadog, etc.).
• Familiarity with Kubernetes, container orchestration, and modern CI/CD pipelines.
• Understanding of networking, Linux system internals, and distributed systems.
• Ability to troubleshoot complex technical issues across the stack.
• US Citizenship Required
• Candidate must possess active secret to start, and ability to attain Top Secret/SCI
• Preferred Experience supporting DoD or other federal programs.
• Certifications such as Kubernetes (CKA/CKAD), AWS/Azure, or ITIL.
• Experience implementing SRE frameworks at scale.

Location & Travel:

Location: Remote Travel= 25-50%

The likely salary range for this position is $164,382 - $215,050. This is not, however, a guarantee of compensation or salary. Rather, salary will be set based on experience, geographic location and possibly contractual requirements and could fall outside of this range.

Scheduled Weekly Hours: 40

Telecommuting Options: Remote Work Location: Any Location / Remote