Lead Site Reliability Engineer (47889)

Job Description

Job Description

Lead Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)
Program: Clairvoyant
Location: Chantilly, VA – 100% onsite, 5 days/week in SCIF
Clearance: TS/SCI + Poly
Contract: Newly awarded April 2026; 7-year sole-source contract

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience with monitoring, logging, and observability platforms, such as Prometheus, Grafana, and ELK stack
• 8+ years of experience with Linux systems administration and networking fundamentals within AWS

• Experience with Python scripting and automation

• Experience with Infrastructure as Code using Terraform and Terragrunt

• Knowledge of Kubernetes administration, troubleshooting, and operations.

• TS/SCI clearance with a polygraph

• Bachelor's degree and 8+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps Engineering, or Platform Engineering, or 12+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps Engineering, or Platform Engineering in lieu of a degree
• Ability to obtain a Security+ CE, SSCP, CCNA-Security, or GSEC Certification within 6 months of start date

Nice to Have Skills

• Experience with deploying and managing OpenTelemetry.

• Experience with AWS CloudWatch, AWS EKS, and related AWS services

• Experience managing Kubernetes environments through Rancher

• Experience implementing SRE practices such as SLOs, SLIs, error budgets, and incident management

• Experience with Jenkins, Git, Docker, Kubernetes, Nessus, JIRA, and Confluence

• Knowledge of distributed systems, microservices architectures, and containerized workloads

• Knowledge of NIST 800-53 and NIST-190

• Master's degree in a relevant field

• Security+ CE, SSCP, CCNA-Security, or GSEC Certification