Senior Site Reliability Engineer

🕒 October 26

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $104k - $166k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

⛑ DevOps & Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

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Peraton

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10,000+ employees

💼 Consulting

🏥 Healthcare

📦 Logistics

Consulting • Healthcare • Logistics

Peraton is a mission-focused enterprise that supports national security initiatives through advanced IT and cyber services. They provide capabilities in areas such as cyber defense, cloud operations, engineering, and intelligence. With a commitment to solving complex challenges, Peraton integrates data-driven technologies to ensure mission success for their military and government clients.

📋 Description

• Own end-to-end reliability of the enterprise application • Define SLIs/SLOs with product and engineering, enforce error-budget policy, and use burn rates to guide release and prioritization decisions • Write, review, and ship production Python and Rust code to address performance, concurrency, and failure-handling issues • Instrument services with metrics, structured logging, and distributed tracing • Own monitoring and alerting using CloudWatch and Prometheus/Grafana • Build SLO-based burn-rate alerts, manage alert routing and on-call hygiene, and design service, SLO, and executive dashboards • Build in-application health checks and synthetic user-journey tests for real authentication flows and critical transactions • Lead incident response, run blameless postmortems, and drive corrective actions to closure • Operate Amazon EKS/Kubernetes and core AWS services managed through OpenTofu/Terraform • Maintain GitHub Actions/GitLab CI pipelines with reliability and performance gates • Support trunk-based, MR-driven Agile delivery and progressive canary/blue-green rollouts • Enforce secrets management and least privilege • Produce audit evidence for NIST 800-171, CMMC, FedRAMP, or DoD/ATO environments • Drive load testing, capacity planning, and chaos engineering • Mentor engineers on reliability practices

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree and 8+ years in SRE, platform, or software engineering roles with production reliability ownership • Strong software engineering in Python • Rust experience strongly preferred • Experience with production application code, including performance, concurrency, and failure-handling fixes • Experience defining SLIs/SLOs, setting SLO targets, enforcing error-budget policy, and using burn rates • Experience owning monitoring and alerting with CloudWatch, Prometheus/Grafana, or equivalent • Experience designing service, SLO, and executive-level dashboards in Grafana or equivalent • Experience adding metrics, structured logging, and distributed tracing using OpenTelemetry or equivalent • Experience building application health checks and scripted user-journey checks • Experience leading incident response, running blameless postmortems, and driving corrective actions • Strong Amazon EKS/Kubernetes operations background, including Helm, RBAC, pod identity, GitOps, upgrades, and troubleshooting • Solid AWS experience across VPC, IAM, S3, RDS, CloudTrail, CloudWatch, and KMS • CI/CD experience with GitHub Actions and/or GitLab CI, including reliability and performance gates • Infrastructure-as-code experience with OpenTofu/Terraform • Experience with trunk-based development, MR-driven change, and automated quality gates • Security and compliance awareness, including secrets management, least privilege, and audit evidence • US citizenship required • Production Rust experience with async/Tokio, FFI with Python via PyO3, or similar preferred • Load and performance testing and capacity planning preferred • Chaos engineering and fault-injection testing preferred • Progressive delivery with automated rollback preferred • Experience with Big Bang (Platform One), IronBank, or hardened-image pipelines preferred • Prior work on systems pursuing or holding an ATO preferred • Contributions to observability tooling or Rust/Python open-source projects preferred

🏖️ Benefits

• Medical insurance • Dental insurance • Vision insurance • Life insurance • Health savings account • Short-term disability • Long-term disability • Employee Assistance Program (EAP) • Parental leave • 401(k) • Paid time off (PTO) for vacation • Company-paid holidays • Overtime eligibility • Shift differential eligibility • Discretionary bonus eligibility

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