Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Peraton is a national security and enterprise IT company delivering mission-critical solutions for government agencies and the U.S. armed forces. The Site Reliability Engineer will operate and improve the reliability, availability, performance, security, and operational health of production systems across AWS environments, while collaborating with platform, security, and application teams. The role includes incident response, observability, release management, resilience testing, infrastructure lifecycle management, and operational automation.
Responsibilities
- Operate and maintain production infrastructure services and applications, ensuring availability and reliability, performance, security, and operational health
- Monitor services and applications using defined SLIs, SLOs, dashboards, alerts, and other observability tools; continuously improve the detection, diagnosis, and resolution of operational issues
- Partner with application teams to define application observability requirements and implement appropriate metrics, logs, traces, dashboards, and alerts into the organization's observability tooling
- Manage production incidents and service disruptions, including on-call response, troubleshooting, service restoration, root-cause analysis, and post-incident corrective actions
- Execute application and infrastructure releases through established deployment pipelines, including promotion through staging and production, validation, rollback, and release-related troubleshooting
- Manage the operational lifecycle of deployed infrastructure, including upgrades, patching, configuration changes, maintenance, and technology refreshes
- Assess and improve service resilience through capacity planning, performance testing, failure-mode analysis, disaster recovery, backup, failover, and recovery testing
- Identify and address reliability risks and operational technical debt by using reliability metrics, incident trends, capacity data, and service health indicators to prioritize improvements
- Automate operational activities using an everything-as-code approach to improve consistency, repeatability, testing, deployment, recovery, and operational efficiency
- Collaborate with platform engineering and application teams to identify operational requirements, provide feedback on reusable infrastructure building blocks, and continuously improve the reliability and operability of the environment
Skills
- Must be a U.S. Citizen with the ability to obtain and maintain the required Public Trust level clearance
- Bachelor's Degree and 8 years of experience, or a High School diploma/equivalent and 12 years of experience
- 7+ years hands-on experience in site reliability engineering, DevOps, or production systems engineering
- Hands-on experience operating in AWS Commercial and AWS GovCloud, including OpenShift (ROSA) or comparable Kubernetes-based platforms
- Strong infrastructure-as-code experience with Terraform and Ansible/Ansible Tower
- Experience with CI/CD platforms GitLab and Jenkins, including reliability gating and deployment automation
- Proficient in Linux and Windows Server administration
- Experience with enterprise observability tools such as Dynatrace, Datadog, Splunk and Open Telemetry
- Demonstrated ownership of an SLI/SLO and alerting program, including error budgets, alert rationalization, and noise reduction
- Scripting/automation proficiency in Python, Bash, PowerShell, or Go
- Experience operating in federal or regulated environments (FISMA, FedRAMP, NIST 800-53)
- AWS Solutions Architect, AWS DevOps Engineer, or AWS SysOps certification
- Red Hat Certified Specialist in ROSA, Red Hat Certified System Administrator in OpenShift
- Azure Administrator Associate, GCP Associate Cloud Engineer certification
- Dynatrace Associate, Datadog Log Management Fundamentals certification
- GitLab CI/CD Associate certification, Certified Jenkins Engineer (CJE)
- Terraform Associate certification
Benefits
- Remote work allowed 100%
- Employees may be eligible for overtime, shift differential, and a discretionary bonus in addition to base pay
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