Cloud SRE Systems Engineer
Integral Federal2 months ago
Tysons, VA, USASenior
Base Salary
$140k - $160k/yr
Responsibilities
- Maintain application and system environments across VA Enterprise Cloud in an operational state 24x7x365.
- Apply operating system and application patches and perform backup and restoration activities.
- Support software releases, including work outside core hours, and validate maximum load after production deployment.
- Manage and optimize cloud resource utilization through capacity planning and forecasting.
- Implement SRE practices and patterns that improve reliability, performance, automation, fault tolerance, telemetry, logging, and alerting.
- Improve fault tolerance across distributed and microservices systems.
- Conduct trend analysis of system performance and resource utilization to forecast demand and identify bottlenecks.
- Implement real-time proactive monitoring dashboards for system health visibility and alerting.
- Produce monitoring reports, SLT assessments, postmortems, and operational dashboards.
- Maintain incident response plans, disaster recovery plans, backup and restoration plans, and continuity operations.
- Provide outage reports, SLT performance updates, and incident communications.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information technology, or a related field.
- 7–10 years of experience.
- Knowledge of modern SRE practices, including automation, resilience engineering, observability, fault tolerance, SLT/SLA adherence, and incident analysis.
- Experience producing monitoring reports, SLT assessments, postmortems, and operational dashboards.
- Experience with Jira and GitHub.
- Competency maintaining incident response plans, disaster recovery plans, backup and restoration plans, and executing continuity operations.
- Strong documentation and communication skills.
- Preferred experience with AWS VA Enterprise Cloud and Azure DevOps.
- Public Trust eligibility or experience is preferred as stated in the posting.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
- Flexible spending accounts.
- Short-term and long-term disability insurance.
- Life insurance.
- Paid time off and holidays.
- Paid parental leave.
- Immediate vesting in the 401(k).
- Earned bonuses and awards.
- Professional training reimbursement.
- Employee assistance program.
- 24x7x365 operational coverage and software releases outside core hours may be required.
Tech Stack
Categories
Site Reliability
About Integral Federal
Integral Federal provides IT and mission support services to U.S. defense, intelligence, and civilian agencies, with offerings in cybersecurity, identity intelligence/biometrics, cloud, and systems engineering. Headquartered in McLean, Virginia and privately held, it operates on government contracts and task orders, including work supporting U.S. Army biometric systems and fielding activities.