Senior Site Reliability Engineer

What You'll Own

• Reliability and design decisions.
• Ahead incident response.
• Root cause, resolution, and the RCA that follows.
• A slice of FedRAMP compliance.
• Vulnerability management, DISA STIG hardening, NIST SP 800-53 controls in practice.
• Observability architecture.
• Prometheus, Grafana, SLIs/SLOs that actually mean something to the business.

Requirements

• 5-8+ years in SRE, cloud DevOps, or infrastructure architecture.
• Strong AWS (VPC, IAM, EC2, S3, KMS) and hands-on GovCloud exposure.
• Kubernetes/EKS depth. Cluster upgrades, Helm, container security, not just kubectl basics.
• Comfort with Terraform, GitLab CI/CD, and GitOps workflows.

Benefits

• A defined contract term. Mid-September through end of March, with a clear scope from day one.
• Competitive W2 hourly rate. $85-$105/hr, reflecting FedRAMP/GovCloud premium and shift work, DOE.
• Genuinely useful experience. Direct exposure to a live FedRAMP audit environment.
• Straight talk. A recruiter who'll actually tell you what the engagement is really like before you sign.