Peraton

Senior Cloud Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

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Base Salary

$104k - $166k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Design, develop, and maintain Python-based reliability solutions, automation scripts, APIs, and SRE utilities in AWS.
  • Implement observability and monitoring solutions using Grafana and AWS CloudWatch, including custom metrics and dashboards.
  • Build and optimize Terraform Infrastructure as Code for AWS resources and integrate Python-based workflows.
  • Develop CI/CD pipelines and automated testing to support code quality, reliability, and rapid delivery.
  • Define SRE standards, metrics, best practices, SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, and adoption guidelines across teams.
  • Participate in incident management and on-call rotation, troubleshoot production issues, and reduce recurring incidents.
  • Produce blameless postmortems with actionable follow-up items and documented failure scenarios.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams in Agile and Scaled Agile environments to deliver cloud automation solutions.

Requirements

  • U.S. citizenship and the ability to obtain and maintain the required Public Trust clearance.
  • Bachelor's degree and 8 years of experience, or a high school diploma or equivalent and 12 years of experience.
  • At least 5 years of advanced Python development experience building enterprise-grade, highly available tools, APIs, and utilities for AWS.
  • At least 7 years of software development experience focused on reliability and platform engineering.
  • At least 3 years of hands-on AWS experience with EC2, VPC, S3, Lambda, IAM, CloudFormation, EventBridge, Step Functions, and cost optimization.
  • At least 3 years of experience applying SRE principles, including observability, toil automation, SLIs, SLOs, and reliability engineering.
  • Expert-level Terraform Infrastructure as Code experience, including module development and state management.
  • Strong experience with CI/CD pipelines, automated testing frameworks, and DevOps practices.
  • Experience with Grafana, AWS CloudWatch, AWS Canary, SLOs, SLIs, error budgets, root-cause analysis, and postmortem documentation.
  • Experience with Agile, Scaled Agile, ITSM processes, resilience testing, and chaos engineering.
  • Experience with GoLang or additional programming languages is preferred.
  • A bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a similar field is preferred.

Benefits

  • Remote work arrangement.
  • Medical, dental, vision, life insurance, health savings account, short- and long-term disability, and employee assistance program benefits.
  • Parental leave, 401(k), paid time off, and company-paid holidays.
  • Eligible employees may receive overtime, shift differential, and a discretionary bonus in addition to base pay.

Tech Stack

Categories

DevOpsSite Reliability
Peraton

About Peraton

10,000+ employees

Peraton builds and integrates mission systems, cyber, space, and intelligence solutions for U.S. defense, intelligence, and civil agencies. It delivers enterprise IT, satellite and terrestrial communications, and spectrum management under government contracts. Founded in 2017, the company is headquartered in Reston, Virginia and is privately held by Veritas Capital.

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