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Staff Site Reliability Engineer

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3 months ago
Fairfax, VA, USAStaff+

Responsibilities

  • Build, maintain, and operate IaaS and PaaS infrastructure in AWS and Azure commercial and government clouds.
  • Engineer and maintain deployment automation, scripting, deployment platforms, and CI/CD pipelines.
  • Own the reliability of non-production and production delivery environments, including operational response and environment refresh or restore activities.
  • Use Kubernetes for container orchestration and management with a focus on scalability, reliability, and high availability.
  • Implement monitoring, logging, and alerting to support system performance and availability.
  • Participate in an on-call rotation supporting software and cloud infrastructure.
  • Mentor and provide technical guidance to junior team members.

Requirements

  • U.S. citizenship is required.
  • 8+ years of experience in automated cloud infrastructure and cloud computing platforms.
  • Strong hands-on cloud engineering or DevOps experience with AWS or Azure, including production-grade application deployments.
  • Strong hands-on Terraform and Infrastructure as Code experience.
  • Knowledge of networking and internet protocols.
  • Experience with containers, orchestration, and serverless architectures in Azure environments.
  • Familiarity with IDEs and source control tools such as GitHub or GitLab.
  • A bachelor's or master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field is required.
  • FedRAMP experience is preferred.
  • Computer Science or object-oriented coding experience is preferred.

Benefits

  • 100% remote within the continental United States.
  • Long-term contract expected to last 3+ years.
  • No security clearance is needed.

Categories

DevOpsSite Reliability
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