DevSecOps - Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) / US Gov

About the role

Design, automate, deploy, and operate highly reliable cloud systems supporting mission-critical workloads for U.S. Government customers. This role is centered on DevSecOps and site reliability engineering, with a strong emphasis on deployment automation, operational stability, and system resilience across AWS GovCloud and AWS C2E environments.

Responsibilities

• Ensure systems are observable, fault-tolerant, and require minimal manual intervention.
• Build and evolve automated deployment pipelines, hardened runtime environments, and repeatable infrastructure patterns that support secure and scalable operations in regulated environments.
• Support and improve Quindar deployments to air-gapped networks, driving consistency, reliability, and performance across all environments.
• Collaborate closely with frontend, backend, and platform engineers to ensure systems meet performance, reliability, and mission assurance requirements.
• Participate in incident response and a 24/7 on-call rotation, with a strong mandate to eliminate toil through automation and continuously improve system reliability.

Requirements

• Strong experience with Kubernetes and containerized workloads in production environments
• Hands-on experience operating clusters in AWS EKS, Rancher, or similar platforms
• Experience supporting GovCloud, IL-enclave, or C2E environments
• Deep experience with CI/CD systems and deployment automation (GitLab preferred)
• Proficiency in Python and Infrastructure-as-Code tools (Terraform or similar)
• Experience with observability platforms (Grafana LGTM stack, Datadog, or equivalent)
• Strong understanding of distributed systems, APIs, databases, caching, and event-driven architectures
• Solid networking fundamentals (VPCs, VPNs, load balancers, TLS, service connectivity)
• Experience with Linux/Unix systems
• Familiarity with cloud security best practices, enclave boundaries, and secure system design
• Experience with identity and access management (AWS IAM, Auth0, Keycloak, ICAM patterns)
• Strong Git fundamentals and experience supporting deployments across multiple classification levels
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field
• 3+ years of professional experience as an SRE, DevOps, reliability, infrastructure, or platform engineer
• Active U.S. Security Clearance (Secret or higher required; TS/SCI preferred); U.S. Citizenship required
• Experience working toward ATO/authorization in federal, DoD, or IC environments preferred
• Experience supporting deployments in GovCloud, C2S/C2E, or IL-enclave environments highly desirable

Qualifications

• To conform to U.S. Government export regulations, applicant must be a (i) U.S. citizen or national, (ii) U.S. lawful, permanent resident (aka green card holder), (iii) Refugee under 8 U.S.C. § 1157, or (iv) Asylee under 8 U.S.C. § 1158, or be eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State. Learn more about the ITAR here.

Skills

• Experience with Kubernetes and containerized workloads in production environments
• Hands-on experience operating clusters in AWS EKS, Rancher, or similar platforms
• Experience supporting GovCloud, IL-enclave, or C2E environments
• Deep experience with CI/CD systems and deployment automation (GitLab preferred)
• Proficiency in Python and Infrastructure-as-Code tools (Terraform or similar)
• Experience with observability platforms (Grafana LGTM stack, Datadog, or equivalent)
• Strong understanding of distributed systems, APIs, databases, caching, and event-driven architectures
• Solid networking fundamentals (VPCs, VPNs, load balancers, TLS, service connectivity)
• Experience with Linux/Unix systems
• Familiarity with cloud security best practices, enclave boundaries, and secure system design
• Experience with identity and access management (AWS IAM, Auth0, Keycloak, ICAM patterns)
• Strong Git fundamentals and experience supporting deployments across multiple classification levels

Benefits

• We take work life balance very seriously. We require employees to take 15 days off but provide unlimited PTO and follow most US federal government holidays.
• Mental health is just as important as physical so we provide quarterly health & wellness benefits.
• We encourage employees to save for retirement and provide 4% 401(k) matching.
• Annually we have a 4-day company offsite.
• Previous locations include San Francisco, Nashville, Denver, Santa Fe, New Orleans, San Diego, Bozeman, and New York City.
• Our culture and company is evolving. You will be key in creating the next major or minor version!

Pay

• Competitive salary commensurate with experience

Schedule

• Full-time