Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Confidential is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to design, build, and operate production-grade Kubernetes platforms in regulated environments. The role focuses on improving reliability, developing secure CI/CD pipelines, implementing observability, automating operational processes, and supporting compliance, incident response, and on-call operations.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and operate production-grade Kubernetes platforms in regulated environments
- Improve system reliability through automation, thoughtful design, and continuous iteration
- Define and drive SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets to guide reliability decisions
- Build and evolve CI/CD pipelines that are secure, scalable, and easy to use
- Implement robust observability (metrics, logs, traces) to make systems understandable and actionable
- Reduce operational toil by automating repetitive processes and improving workflows
- Partner with security and compliance teams to meet FedRAMP High and IL5 requirements without sacrificing developer velocity
- Support ATO processes, including documentation, controls implementation, and audit readiness Confidential
- Participate in on-call rotations supporting customer requests and paging alerts
- Participate in incident response, blameless postmortems, and continuous improvement efforts
- Help shape a platform that engineers enjoy using
Skills
- 10+ years of experience in SRE, DevOps, or infrastructure engineering
- Strong experience running Kubernetes in production (EKS, AKS, GKE, or upstream)
- Hands-on experience working in FedRAMP High and/or DoD IL5 environments
- Solid understanding of cloud infrastructure, Linux systems, and networking fundamentals
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform preferred)
- Familiarity with CI/CD systems (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, ArgoCD)
- Proficiency in scripting or programming (Python, Go)
- Experience building or operating observability platforms (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, ELK)
- Working knowledge of compliance frameworks (e.g., NIST 800-53, STIGs, RMF)
- Experience with service mesh technologies (Istio, Linkerd)
- Familiarity with policy-as-code (OPA/Gatekeeper, Kyverno)
- Experience with GitOps workflows
- Exposure to multi-cluster or hybrid cloud architectures
- Knowledge of FIPS-compliant systems or DoD Cloud SRG
- Relevant certifications (CKA, CKS, cloud provider certs, Security+)
Benefits
- Full Time Benefits
- Remote work arrangement
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