Site Reliability Engineer, US Gov

Responsibilities

• Architect, automate, test, deploy, and maintain highly available cloud infrastructure in AWS GovCloud and AWS C2E.
• Ensure adherence to SOC2, NIST 800-171, and FedRAMP Moderate controls in cleared environments and workflows.
• Manage deployment and ongoing maintenance of Quindar deployments at government sites.
• Drive Quindar readiness and deployment onto AWS C2E through control implementation, container hardening, deployment configuration, and networking work.
• Define best practices for service availability, latency, and performance as the team grows.
• Handle incident management, 24/7 on-call support, and technical troubleshooting of complex enterprise and mission-critical systems.
• Develop automation that reduces manual intervention.
• Collaborate with frontend, backend, and flight/mission operations engineering teams to meet required system performance metrics.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field.
• At least 3 years of professional experience as an SRE, DevOps, reliability, infrastructure, or platform engineer.
• Active U.S. Security Clearance at the Secret level or higher is required; TS/SCI is preferred.
• U.S. citizenship is required.
• Deep experience with Kubernetes, containerized workloads, serverless architectures, AWS EKS or Rancher, and AWS cloud services.
• Hands-on experience with GovCloud, IL-enclave, C2S, or C2E deployments is preferred or highly desirable.
• Experience with observability stacks such as Grafana LGTM or Datadog.
• Proficiency in Python and Terraform or similar infrastructure-as-code tooling.
• Strong networking knowledge covering VPNs, NLBs/ALBs, TLS, VPC peering, and CDN integration.
• Experience with API services, distributed NoSQL or relational databases, caching systems, event-driven architectures, and multi-tier systems.
• Strong task automation and CI/CD pipeline development experience; GitLab Workflows experience is preferred.
• Understanding of Unix/Linux operating systems, cloud security, enclave protections, identity and access management, Git, and deployments across multiple classification levels.
• Experience working toward ATO/authorization in federal, DoD, or IC environments is preferred.
• U.S. citizenship or another qualifying status or authorization under ITAR requirements is required.

Benefits

• Unlimited PTO with a requirement to take 15 days off and most U.S. federal government holidays observed.
• Quarterly health and wellness benefits.
• Comprehensive health insurance for employees and their families, with 100% employee coverage.
• 4% 401(k) matching.
• Annual four-day company offsite.