Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

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

• Continuously improve the reliability and operability of Quindar’s platform in production, ensuring systems are observable, fault-tolerant, and require minimal manual intervention.
• 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.

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 preferred
• 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.

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

• Mental health is just as important as physical so we provide quarterly health & wellness benefits.
• Comprehensive health insurance for you and your family with 100% coverage for employees.
• We encourage employees to save for retirement and provide 4% 401(k) matching.
• Annually we have a 4-day company offsite.

Pay

• Competitive salary based on experience and qualifications.

Schedule

• Flexible work schedule to accommodate remote work and on-call responsibilities.