Senior Site Reliability Engineer - Infrastructure Automation

Salary: $114,400 - 124,800 per year Requirements:

• At least 5 years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, Systems Engineering, or Infrastructure Operations in large-scale enterprise environments
• Deep expertise in Chef or Cinc cookbook development, serverless execution modes, and automated provisioning
• Strong knowledge of on-premises infrastructure, server management, hardware provisioning, and operating systems architecture
• Proven experience creating automated CI/CD pipelines and GitOps workflows using Git
• Hands-on experience building internal microservices, tools, or workflows with AI agent tooling, LLM orchestration, or agentic frameworks
• Expertise in end-to-end monitoring, metrics collection, logging, and alerting with tools such as Datadog and Grafana
• Experience managing and securing Windows infrastructure alongside Linux
• Proficiency in Python, Go, PowerShell, or Bash for automation and tooling development

• Architect, manage, and scale on-premises infrastructure and server fleets, maintaining high availability, optimizing performance, and managing incidents
• Lead configuration management with Chef or Cinc and Infrastructure as Code practices to support consistent, drift-free deployments
• Design and maintain secure, scalable GitLab CI/CD pipelines and GitOps workflows for system configuration, package releases, and patch management
• Develop and integrate internal tools and services using AI agent frameworks and LLM tooling, including Claude Code, Codex CLI, and Model Context Protocol, to automate diagnostics, ticket triage, and operational remediation
• Implement observability platforms using Datadog, Grafana, and custom data pipelines to monitor fleet health, track Chef or Cinc run metrics, and identify anomalies
• Work with Windows and Linux engineering teams to maintain secure, compliant server and client environments, apply CIS benchmarks, and automate patching

• AI
• Architect
• Bash
• CI/CD
• Claude Code
• Cloud
• Datadog
• Git
• GitLab
• GitOps
• Grafana
• Hardware
• Support
• LLM
• Linux
• PowerShell
• Python
• Serverless
• Windows
• microservices
• Agentic AI
• DevOps
• Incident Management
• MCP
• Security

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We are seeking an experienced Site Reliability Engineer to join our Infrastructure Platform Engineering team and help design, scale, and secure hybrid on-premises and cloud infrastructure. The role focuses on availability, automation, and operational excellence across large fleet environments, combining infrastructure management with AI agent tooling to reduce manual work and support continuous reliability. The pay range is $55–$60 per hour. We offer medical, dental, and vision insurance; a 401(k) plan; a health savings account; short- and long-term disability insurance; life and AD&D insurance; paid sick leave where required by law; supplemental insurance plans; identity theft protection; pet insurance; wellness programs; an employee assistance program; and career development opportunities. Benefits and eligibility may vary by employment status, tenure, and location, and plans may change in accordance with applicable laws. Cynet Systems, founded in 2010 and headquartered in the Washington, DC metro area, provides technology staffing and workforce solutions to Fortune 500 companies, government agencies, and enterprise organizations across the United States and Canada. We support staffing across IT, engineering, life sciences, clinical, and professional fields, and hold MBE, ISO 9001, ISO 14001, ISO 27001, and SOC 2 Type II certifications.

last updated 40 week of 2026