Cloud Data & AI Platform SRE Lead

Karsun Solutions, LLC; Illinois; On-site; USD 160,000 - 175,000; Full time

Job summary

Karsun Solutions, LLC seeks an experienced Technical Operations Lead to own a cloud-native AWS data and AI platform supporting a federal program. You will oversee reliability, observability, incident response, platform engineering, and data-product operationalization.

You will mentor an ops/SRE team, automate deployments via Terraform/CloudFormation and CI/CD, and ensure security and compliance in a federal environment.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of directly relevant IT work experience.
• 7+ years in technical operations / platform / SRE.
• 3+ years in AWS production environments.
• Experience operating data platforms (Databricks, Airflow, S3, Kafka/Kinesis).
• Strong SRE practices: SLIs/SLOs, incident response, runbooks.

Responsibilities

• Serve as primary technical owner for platform availability and runbooks for data pipelines and model serving.
• Design and operationalize SRE practices (SLIs/SLOs/SLAs, toil reduction).
• Build and maintain monitoring, alerting, and observability across data and AI stacks.
• Lead incident management, on-call rotations, RCA, and remediation tracking.
• Automate operational workflows using IaC (Terraform/CloudFormation) and CI/CD (GitHub Actions/Jenkins/ArgoCD).
• Ensure data and ML system DR planning, backups, and security compliance.
• Coordinate with data product owners, ML engineers, security, and compliance for production readiness.
• Manage capacity planning, cost optimization, and AWS resource tuning.
• Mentor and lead an ops/SRE team and coordinate platform changes.

Skills

Data product ownership

SRE practices

Incident response

Observability

Security/compliance (federal)

Strong communication

Tools

Prometheus

Datadog

OpenTelemetry

Terraform

CloudFormation

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

ArgoCD

Kubernetes / EKS

Python

Bash

SageMaker

Databricks

Airflow

Job description

Karsun Solutions, LLC seeks an experienced Technical Operations Lead to own a cloud-native AWS data and AI platform supporting a federal program. You will oversee reliability, observability, incident response, platform engineering, and data-product operationalization.

You will mentor an ops/SRE team, automate deployments via Terraform/CloudFormation and CI/CD, and ensure security and compliance in a federal environment.