Senior Site Reliability Engineer - Government Cloud
About Our Client
Founded in 2018 with co-headquarters in Dublin and Boston, this organization provides an intelligent workflow platform that integrates AI, automation, and human ingenuity to optimize important business workflows. Serving diverse customers including startups and public companies, it offers vendor-agnostic integration across any API-enabled service, enabling faster achievement of key goals. Its secure, privacy-focused design makes it popular with teams in security, IT, engineering, and finance.
About the Opportunity
The Senior Site Reliability Engineer - Government Cloud is responsible for building and operating the AWS GovCloud environment that supports federal customers and self-hosted government clients. The role focuses on creating a repeatable, observable, and assessment-ready infrastructure, from foundational architecture to daily operations, ensuring the environment remains healthy and compliant. This position also influences technical direction, product development, and team culture.
Responsibilities
- Build and operate the AWS GovCloud environment for federal customers, including foundational network architecture and production-ready infrastructure.
- Design and implement repeatable infrastructure-as-code for dedicated customer environments.
- Manage the container image pipeline for government deployments, ensuring FIPS compliance through CI/CD.
- Identify and resolve availability risks and monitoring gaps to maintain healthy environments.
- Collaborate with assessment partners to provide documentation and evidence for FedRAMP authorization.
- Enable product engineers to develop features compatible across commercial and government environments.
- Define boundaries separating compliance-restricted functions from engineering operations.
- Support self-hosted federal customers in the CMMC environment, including on-call escalation handling.
Requirements
- Minimum 5 years of experience in infrastructure, DevOps, or cloud engineering with substantial AWS experience.
- Hands-on expertise with VPC architectures, encryption, and AWS compute, database, and caching services in production.
- Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools like CDK or Terraform, particularly in FedRAMP or CMMC contexts.
- Strong understanding of compliance requirements and ability to produce necessary documentation.
- U.S. citizenship and ability to work within the United States due to government customer requirements.