4 days ago
Chantilly, VA, USASenior / Staff+
H1B sponsor
Base Salary
$112k - $179k/yr
Responsibilities
- Implement standardized metrics, logging, and distributed tracing across enterprise environments.
- Establish OpenTelemetry-based instrumentation and integrate cloud, Kubernetes, platform, application, and infrastructure telemetry.
- Maintain telemetry pipelines, retention, routing, data-quality controls, and instrumentation configurations.
- Develop dashboards, alerts, service-health views, SLOs, and operational metrics for system performance and availability.
- Analyze performance, capacity, utilization, latency, error rates, saturation, and operational trends to identify reliability improvements.
- Support incident diagnosis, cross-service troubleshooting, root-cause analysis, Tier 3/4 escalations, and on-call operations.
- Automate monitoring, alerting, reporting, remediation, and other recurring operational activities.
- Partner with operations and engineering teams to improve incident response and reduce recurring issues.
- Maintain operational procedures, troubleshooting documentation, and knowledge articles.
Requirements
- Active TS/SCI clearance with CI Polygraph is required.
- Approximately 5–8 years of experience in observability, site reliability engineering, operations, platform engineering, cloud engineering, or a related technical discipline is required.
- A BS/BA with 5 years of experience is required, though an additional 4 years of experience may be considered in lieu of the degree.
- Hands-on experience with metrics, logging, tracing, monitoring, and alerting is required.
- Experience with Kubernetes and cloud environments is required.
- Experience operating and supporting production services and responding to technical incidents is required.
- Experience with scripting, automation, or infrastructure-as-code practices is required.
- Strong troubleshooting, systems analysis, performance-analysis, analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills are required.
- Experience with OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch, OpenSearch, distributed tracing, application performance monitoring, SLO/SLA/error-budget practices, automated incident response, or observability in secure enterprise environments is preferred.
Benefits
- Fully onsite work arrangement in Chantilly, Virginia.
- Employees may be eligible for overtime, shift differential, and a discretionary bonus in addition to base pay.
Tech Stack
Categories
DevOpsSite Reliability
About Peraton
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.