Cloud SRE Engineer: Reliability, Automation & Observability

Integral Federal, Inc.; Tysons (VA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental & Vision Insurance

Paid Parental Leave

401(k) with immediate vesting

Flexible Spending Accounts

Disability Insurance

Life Insurance

Paid Time Off & Holidays

Bonuses & Awards

Professional Training Reimbursement

Employee Assistance Program

Job summary

Integral Federal, Inc. is seeking a Cloud Site Reliability Engineer to ensure reliability, performance, and operational excellence of VAEC environments for the VA. The role covers patching, automation, incident handling, monitoring, and capacity planning across distributed systems.

Ideal candidates have a Bachelor’s degree in CS or IT with 7–10 years of experience and strong skills in SRE, observability, and incident analysis. Public Trust clearance is required where applicable.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or IT related field with 7–10 years of experience.
• Knowledge of modern SRE practices: automation, resilience engineering, observability, fault tolerance, SLT/SLA adherence, and incident analysis.
• Experience producing monitoring reports, SLT assessments, postmortems, and operational dashboards.
• Experience with Jira and GitHub.
• Competency maintaining IRPs, DRPs, backup/restore plans, and executing continuity operations.
• Strong documentation and communication skills for reporting outages, SLT performance, and incident updates.
• Public Trust

Responsibilities

• Applies SRE practices, manages cloud environments, patching and automation, ensures SLTs, supports deployments, incidents, and monitoring.
• Maintain all environments in an operational state across VAEC 24x7x365.
• Apply OS and application patches; perform backup and restore activities.
• Support software releases (often outside core hours) and validate max load after deployment.
• Manage and optimize cloud resource utilization including capacity planning and forecasting.
• Implement SRE patterns to improve reliability, automation, telemetry, logging, and alerting.
• Improve fault tolerance for distributed/microservices systems during outages.
• Conduct trend analysis of system performance and forecast future demand.
• Implement real-time proactive monitoring dashboards for visibility and alerting.

Skills

Automation

Observability

Fault tolerance

Incident analysis

SRE practices

Jira

GitHub

Documentation

Communication

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or IT-related field

Tools

Jira

GitHub

Azure DevOps

AWS VA Enterprise Cloud

Job description

Integral Federal, Inc. is seeking a Cloud Site Reliability Engineer to ensure reliability, performance, and operational excellence of VAEC environments for the VA. The role covers patching, automation, incident handling, monitoring, and capacity planning across distributed systems.

Ideal candidates have a Bachelor’s degree in CS or IT with 7–10 years of experience and strong skills in SRE, observability, and incident analysis. Public Trust clearance is required where applicable.