Staff Site Reliability Engineer

About the role

We are looking for a Staff Site Reliability Engineer to define the technical vision, lead the architecture, and secure the infrastructure that powers the SimSpace cyber range platform. The ideal candidate is a deeply experienced SRE and exceptional software engineer who thinks strategically about distributed systems, reliability, and operability at a global scale.

Responsibilities

• Technical Strategy & Architecture: Design and architect the overarching infrastructure strategy that enables consistent, repeatable, and secure deployments across SimSpace-hosted data centers, customer-provided hardware, and highly restricted air-gapped environments.
• Platform Evolution & Configuration Management: Lead the evolution of our CI/CD and Kubernetes platforms. Drive advanced application packaging, templating, and configuration management strategies using Jsonnet and Grafana Tanka (alongside Kustomize).
• Move beyond maintaining pipelines to architecting multi-cluster, multi-environment deployment frameworks that drastically improve developer velocity.
• Reliability Leadership: Define, measure, and govern Service Level Indicators (SLIs), Service Level Objectives (SLOs), and Error Budgets across the engineering organization. Partner with product and engineering leadership to balance feature delivery with platform stability.
• Advanced Observability: Architect our enterprise observability strategy using the Grafana stack. Design frameworks for proactive monitoring, complex anomaly detection, and distributed tracing that give teams unparalleled visibility into system health, pod scaling, and latency bottlenecks.
• Security & Compliance Architecture: Drive the infrastructure security posture at an architectural level. Embed advanced container security, zero-trust network segmentation, and automated compliance policies directly into our deployment pipelines and runtime environments.
• Cross-Functional Enablement: Serve as a strategic partner and consultant to development teams. Advocate for an "SRE culture" by designing self-service tooling, establishing "paved roads" for developers, and reducing operational toil across the entire engineering org.
• Incident Command: Act as an Incident Commander during complex, high-severity outages. Drive blameless post-mortems and engineer long-term, systemic, and architectural fixes to ensure classes of failures never repeat.
• Mentorship & Multiplier: Act as a technical mentor to senior and mid-level engineers. Raise the baseline of engineering excellence across the company by coaching, documenting best practices, and leading by example.

Requirements

• Experience: 8+ years of experience in Site Reliability, Platform, or DevOps engineering, with a proven track record of operating at a Staff, Principal, or Lead level to drive organization-wide infrastructure initiatives.
• Expert Software Engineering: Deep software engineering skills (beyond scripting) and the ability to architect complex, production-quality systems. Design clean interfaces, build maintainable tooling, and dictate the technical direction of our internal toolchain. Proficient in at least one modern language (e.g., Go, Python).
• Advanced Kubernetes & Configuration Mastery: Expert-level knowledge of Kubernetes in multi-tenant and multi-cluster production environments. Expertise with Jsonnet and Grafana Tanka for managing complex, scalable Kubernetes configurations and application packaging.
• GitOps & IaC Expertise: Extensive experience architecting sophisticated CI/CD pipelines and GitOps workflows using GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, and infrastructure-as-code principles at an enterprise scale.
• Complex Deployments: Systems-level thinking with the ability to design architectures that span self-hosted, on-premises, VMware-based, and air-gapped deployment models.
• Observability Expert: Deep expertise with observability platforms (Grafana stack preferred) and the ability to design alerting and monitoring strategies for complex distributed systems.
• Security Mindset: Strong background in infrastructure security architecture, including container hardening, network security, vulnerability management, and delivering software to heavily regulated or customer-managed environments.
• Influential Communicator: Exceptional communication and stakeholder management skills. Ability to influence cross-functional leadership, negotiate reliability tradeoffs, and align engineering teams behind a unified technical vision.

Qualifications

• Education: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field. Advanced degrees are a plus.
• Experience: 8+ years of experience in Site Reliability, Platform, or DevOps engineering, with a proven track record of operating at a Staff, Principal, or Lead level to drive organization-wide infrastructure initiatives.
• Technical Skills: Deep software engineering skills (beyond scripting) and the ability to architect complex, production-quality systems. Design clean interfaces, build maintainable tooling, and dictate the technical direction of our internal toolchain. Proficient in at least one modern language (e.g., Go, Python).
• Technical Knowledge: Expert-level knowledge of Kubernetes in multi-tenant and multi-cluster production environments. Expertise with Jsonnet and Grafana Tanka for managing complex, scalable Kubernetes configurations and application packaging.
• Technical Tools: Extensive experience architecting sophisticated CI/CD pipelines and GitOps workflows using GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, and infrastructure-as-code principles at an enterprise scale.
• Technical Capabilities: Systems-level thinking with the ability to design architectures that span self-hosted, on-premises, VMware-based, and air-gapped deployment models.
• Technical Expertise: Deep expertise with observability platforms (Grafana stack preferred) and the ability to design alerting and monitoring strategies for complex distributed systems.
• Technical Background: Strong background in infrastructure security architecture, including container hardening, network security, vulnerability management, and delivering software to heavily regulated or customer-managed environments.
• Communication Skills: Exceptional communication and stakeholder management skills. Ability to influence cross-functional leadership, negotiate reliability tradeoffs, and align engineering teams behind a unified technical vision.

Skills

• Site Reliability Engineering
• DevOps
• DevSecOps
• Kubernetes
• CI/CD Pipelines
• GitOps
• Observability
• Container Security
• Zero Trust Network Segmentation
• Automated Compliance Policies
• Incident Command
• Mentoring

Benefits

• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision benefits
• Savings plans starting on day one
• Unlimited vacation and dedicated health & wellness days
• Paid leave plans for life’s most important moments
• Equity stock options at hire, with annual performance-based grants
• Peloton Interactive Wellness Program
• Monthly reimbursements for meaningful connections with teammates
• Referral rewards
• Legal plan coverage
• Pet insurance
• Wellness reimbursements
• Legal plan coverage
• Pet insurance
• Wellness reimbursements
• Legal plan coverage
• Pet insurance
• Wellness reimbursements
• Legal plan coverage
• Pet insurance
• Wellness reimbursements
• Legal plan coverage
• Pet insurance
• Wellness reimbursements
• Legal plan coverage
• Pet insurance
• Wellness reimbursements
• Legal plan coverage
• Pet insurance
• Wellness reimbursements
• Legal plan coverage
• Pet insurance
• Wellness reimbursements
• Legal plan coverage
• Pet insurance
• Wellness reimbursements
• Legal plan coverage
• Pet insurance
• Wellness reimbursements
• Legal plan coverage
• Pet insurance
• Wellness reimbursements
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• Pet insurance
• Wellness reimbursements
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• Pet insurance
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• Pet insurance
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• Pet insurance
• Wellness reimbursements
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• Pet insurance
• Wellness reimbursements
• Legal plan coverage
• Pet insurance
• Wellness reimbursements
• Legal plan coverage
• Pet insurance
• Wellness reimbursements