Site Reliability Engineer

Job Title: Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)


Location: Washington, DC (Onsite)


Clearance: TS/SCI

Position Overview

Seeking a highly motivated Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to support mission-critical enterprise applications and infrastructure in a high-availability environment. The SRE will be responsible for ensuring system reliability, performance, scalability, and operational efficiency through proactive monitoring, automation, and rapid incident response.

This role bridges development and operations, partnering closely with engineering teams to ensure new capabilities are delivered without compromising production stability. The ideal candidate brings strong Linux expertise, automation skills, and hands-on experience with cloud-native and containerized environments.

Key Responsibilities

Monitoring & Performance
• Monitor system health, availability, and performance using enterprise observability tools
• Analyze metrics and logs to proactively detect and remediate issues
• Tune alerting to reduce noise and prioritize mission impact

Incident Management & Reliability
• Respond to and resolve production incidents across distributed environments
• Perform root cause analysis and lead post-incident reviews
• Implement corrective and preventive actions to improve resilience
• Participate in on-call rotation for outages, upgrades, and urgent activities

Automation & DevOps Enablement
• Automate repetitive operational tasks to improve efficiency and reduce human error
• Support CI/CD pipelines and automated deployment workflows
• Develop scripts and tooling to improve reliability and repeatability

Platform & Infrastructure Support
• Maintain Linux/Unix systems and containerized workloads
• Support Kubernetes/Docker environments and microservices architectures
• Assist with configuration management and environment standardization
• Ensure secure and compliant system configurations

Collaboration & Continuous Improvement
• Partner with development teams to improve service reliability and performance
• Support backlog refinement and reliability engineering initiatives
• Document runbooks, procedures, and knowledge articles
• Contribute to continuous service improvement efforts

Required Qualifications

Education & Experience
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical field
• Minimum 5 years of relevant technical experience
• At least 3 years of systems programming or SRE/DevOps experience

Technical Skills
• Strong proficiency in Python, Bash, or similar scripting languages
• Hands-on experience with Linux/Unix administration
• Experience with Kubernetes and Docker
• Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud)
• Experience with monitoring and logging tools (e.g., Grafana, Kibana, Prometheus, ELK)
• Working knowledge of CI/CD tools (e.g., GitLab, Jenkins, ArgoCD)
• Understanding of microservices architecture and DevOps practices
• Experience with Git-based workflows

Infrastructure & Networking
• Knowledge of networking fundamentals, load balancers, and firewalls
• Experience with identity and access management (IAM, SSH, VPN, security groups)
• Experience deploying to on-premises or data center environments

Professional Skills
• Strong analytical and troubleshooting abilities
• Excellent time management and ability to work independently
• Effective written and verbal communication skills
• Experience using Jira and Confluence in an Agile environment

Preferred Qualifications
• Experience defining or working with SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets
• Familiarity with Helm and Kubernetes deployment pipelines
• Experience supporting high-availability or mission-critical systems
• Knowledge of security best practices and compliance frameworks