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.
  • Build and optimize Terraform Infrastructure-as-Code for AWS resources and integrate Python-based workflows with cost-efficient designs.
  • Implement observability and monitoring solutions using Grafana, AWS CloudWatch, custom metrics, and dashboards.
  • Develop CI/CD pipelines and automated testing to support code quality, reliability, and rapid delivery.
  • Define SRE standards, best practices, SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, and reliability engineering guidelines.
  • Participate in incident management and on-call rotations, troubleshoot production issues, and reduce recurring incidents.
  • Produce blameless postmortems, document failure scenarios, and track actionable improvements.
  • 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 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 services including EC2, VPC, S3, Lambda, IAM, CloudFormation, EventBridge, and Step Functions.
  • At least 3 years of experience applying SRE principles such as observability, toil automation, SLIs, and SLOs.
  • 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; GoLang or other programming languages are preferred.
  • A bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a similar field is preferred.

Benefits

  • Remote work arrangement.
  • Target base salary range of $104,000–$166,000, with potential eligibility for overtime, shift differential, and a discretionary bonus.
  • Equal opportunity employment, including for individuals with disabilities and protected veterans.

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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