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Role: Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)
Type: Remote - working EST Hours
Clearance Requirement: Must be eligible for up to a Top-Secret Security Clearance.
Job SummaryThe Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) will play a critical, hands-on role in ensuring the reliability, scalability, and performance of systems supporting highly classified government projects within an air-gapped deployment. This position demands expertise in both DevOps methodologies and deep coding skills to maintain up-time, resilience, and stringent compliance in a secure, disconnected environment.
Key Responsibilities- Develop robust automation, configuration management, and toolsets primarily using Ruby and Shell Scripting (CLI/PowerShell) to manage infrastructure and deployment pipelines (Git/Infrastructure Automation).
- Implement and manage advanced observability solutions with Grafana and Prometheus, along with Splunk and Elastic, to monitor system health and proactively identify issues in an air-gapped setting.
- Collaborate closely with the Lead, Infrastructure, and Security Specialists to rapidly resolve incidents and significantly improve overall system resilience.
- Create and maintain comprehensive documentation for system configurations, runbooks, and disaster recovery procedures tailored for a classified environment.
- Contribute an intermediate level of proficiency in Go to team projects and codebase.
- 8+ years of experience in DevOps OR SRE using Ruby for writing robust automation and tooling.
- Observability and monitoring with Grafana and Prometheus.
- CLI tools including Shell Scripting and/or PowerShell for operational tasks.
- Deploying Kubernetes in production environments.
- Git and various Infrastructure Automation tools.
- Deep administrative experience with Linux operating systems.
- Experience with Go programming language.
- Prior experience in government or defense-related SRE roles.
- Experience with Python for scripting and data analysis.
- Familiarity with packaging and deployment using Helm.
- Knowledge of network security protocols, specifically IPSec
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