Site Reliability Engineer

Title : Site Reliability Engineer

Location : Arlington, VA

Hybrid : 3 days on-site / 2 days remote

Contract : 6 month to perm

Clearance : Secret

Salary : $175K-$200K

Our client is hiring a Site Reliability Engineer with an active Secret clearance to ensure reliability, scalability, performance, and availability of mission-critical systems by combining software engineering practices with infrastructure operations expertise. This role is based in Arlington, VA, as a hybrid/remote position.

Responsibilities:

• Design and maintain highly available production systems.
• Define and manage SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets.
• Automate operational tasks and eliminate manual processes.
• Develop monitoring, alerting, and observability solutions.
• Improve system performance, capacity, and resilience.
• Lead incident response and root cause analysis.
• Implement disaster recovery and continuity strategies.
• Partner with development teams to improve application reliability.

Required Skills and Experience:

• Bachelor's with 12+ years of infrastructure/cloud engineering experience (or commensurate experience)
• 5–10+ years of engineering experience, with a strong background in Linux and Windows systems
• Expertise in Kubernetes and container platforms
• Experience working with cloud infrastructure environments
• Proficiency in scripting languages such as Python and Go
• Hands-on knowledge of Terraform and automation tools
• Familiarity with monitoring platforms and incident management practices
• Experience designing and managing CI/CD pipelines

Preferred Skills and Experience:

• Kubernetes certifications
• AWS/Azure certifications
• DevOps certifications
• ITIL preferred