Site Reliability Engineer
Cherokee Federal4 days ago
Boulder, CO, USAMid Level
Base Salary
$110k - $120k/yr
Responsibilities
- Administer and support RHEL, Broadcom/CA DX Directory and LDAP, Layer7/CA API Gateway, and DataStax Enterprise Cassandra environments.
- Automate platform administration and operational workflows using scripting and advanced orchestration.
- Monitor platform availability and performance against defined SLOs and tune alerting to reduce noise.
- Respond to platform and pipeline incidents, lead troubleshooting, and contribute to blameless postmortems.
- Maintain platform documentation, runbooks, and onboarding guides.
- Partner with engineering teams to improve developer experience and enforce security and compliance standards.
Requirements
- Working knowledge of SRE fundamentals, including SLOs, SLIs, incident management, and postmortems.
- Experience with monitoring and observability tools such as Datadog or Splunk.
- Hands-on experience with GitHub and infrastructure as code; Terraform experience is a plus.
- Strong knowledge of GitHub Actions, including workflow design, secrets handling, and runner management.
- Working knowledge of AI and using AI to support daily tasks.
- Experience with containerization and at least one cloud platform, Azure or AWS.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
- At least 4 years of experience in site reliability engineering, DevSecOps, or platform engineering, preferably in an enterprise ICAM environment.
- Must be a U.S. citizen and hold or be able to obtain a U.S. Government Public Trust or security clearance.
- Experience supporting federal government clients or contracts is a plus.
- Must pass Cherokee Federal's pre-employment qualifications.
Benefits
- Starting annual salary range of $110,000–$120,000.
- Up to a 6% 401(k) company match.
- Paid time off and paid holidays.
- Medical, dental, vision, and prescription drug coverage.
- Basic life, AD&D, short-term disability, and long-term disability insurance.
- Employee Assistance Program, FSA, and HSA options.
- Professional development, training, and certification support.
- Voluntary accident, critical illness, and identity theft protection benefits.
- Work is performed primarily in a climate-controlled office environment in Boulder, Colorado.
About Cherokee Federal
Cherokee Federal delivers professional and technical services to U.S. government customers across defense, IT, health, logistics, and intelligence under federal contracts. As the federal contracting division of Cherokee Nation Businesses, it supports work for more than 60 federal agencies, and its success helps fund programs for the Cherokee Nation. The privately held company is headquartered in Tulsa, Oklahoma.