Senior Site Reliability Engineer - FedRAMP
F5 Networks1 day ago
Reston, VA, USASenior
Base Salary
$162k - $243k/yr
Responsibilities
- Serve as the final L3 escalation tier for critical platform and production incidents, leading incident bridges and documenting resolutions.
- Implement FedRAMP and NIST SP 800-53 controls, support 3PAO audits, gather evidence, and maintain compliance documentation.
- Build and maintain secure audit-log pipelines for application, system, API, and Kubernetes logs with compliant retention and lifecycle management.
- Use Elasticsearch, Kibana, KQL, and Lucene for distributed-system troubleshooting, dashboards, and operational analysis.
- Design secure, highly available hybrid AWS GovCloud, AWS Commercial, Kubernetes, and on-premises edge architectures.
- Operate multi-tenant Kubernetes and EKS clusters, load balancers, ingress controllers, secure networking, hardened bare-metal nodes, and FIPS-compliant traffic routing.
- Develop Terraform infrastructure code and GitOps deployment pipelines with GitLab CI/CD and ArgoCD.
- Create automation tools, controllers, and CLI utilities in Python and Go to reduce operational toil and automate compliance reporting.
- Design monitoring and alerting systems with Prometheus, Grafana, Alertmanager, and Slack, and facilitate post-incident reviews.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of production experience operating high-availability systems in SRE, DevOps, or systems architecture roles.
- Proven experience handling L3 production escalations, live incident triage, and stakeholder communications.
- Advanced hands-on experience with Elasticsearch, Kibana, KQL, log parsing, and operational dashboards.
- Direct experience implementing and defending systems during FedRAMP Moderate or High, NIST SP 800-53, or SOC 2 Type II audits.
- Experience designing hybrid cloud network architectures, secure multi-tenant clusters, and system security plans.
- Strong Linux administration and networking knowledge, including RHEL, Rocky Linux, hardened Ubuntu, TCP/IP, iptables, DNS, and OS hardening.
- Expert Kubernetes and AWS EKS experience, including orchestration, pod autoscaling, ingress management, and AWS/GovCloud infrastructure.
- Experience configuring Prometheus, writing PromQL, building Grafana dashboards, and managing Alertmanager rules integrated with Slack.
- Proven Terraform-at-scale and continuous deployment experience with ArgoCD and GitLab CI.
- Proficiency developing production-grade automation in Go and/or Python.
- Experience with on-premises edge servers and hardware or software load balancers such as F5 BIG-IP, HAProxy, NGINX, AWS ALB, or AWS NLB.
- Clear written communication skills and experience writing detailed runbooks and compliance-aligned documentation.
- Must be a US citizen residing in the United States.
Benefits
- Annual base pay is $161,900.00-$242,900.00, with potential incentive compensation, bonuses, restricted stock units, and benefits.
- F5 provides reasonable accommodations and maintains an equal employment opportunity policy.
Categories
DevOpsSite Reliability
About F5 Networks
F5, Inc. builds application delivery and security products for enterprises, service providers, and governments, spanning on‑premises, cloud, and edge environments. It sells software, hardware appliances, and SaaS subscriptions for load balancing, WAF, API security, DDoS protection, and traffic management, with support services. Founded in 1996 and headquartered in Seattle, the public company (NASDAQ: FFIV) expanded its portfolio through acquisitions including NGINX and Shape Security.