Cloud SRE Systems Engineer - Reliability & Automation

Integral; Tysons (VA); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental & Vision Insurance

401(k) with immediate vesting

Paid Parental Leave

Paid Time Off & Holidays

Professional Training Reimbursement

Employee Assistance Program

Job summary

Integral is seeking a Cloud Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Systems Engineer to ensure reliability, availability, and performance of VA product environments deployed in the VA Enterprise Cloud (VAEC) for the Department of Veterans Affairs.

You will apply SRE practices across cloud environments, patching, automation, incident handling, capacity planning, and real-time monitoring, with responsibilities spanning 24x7 operations and cross‑team collaboration.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or IT-related field with 7-10 years' 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, performs patching and automation, ensures compliance with required SLTs, supports deployments, handles incidents, and maintains monitoring, observability, and operational documentation
• Maintain all environments in an operational state across VAEC, including application/system hardware 24x7x365
• Apply OS and application patches and perform backup and restoration activities
• Support software releases (often outside core hours) and validate maximum load after production deployment
• Manage and optimize cloud resource utilization, including capacity planning and forecasting
• Implement SRE practices and patterns to improve reliability, performance, automation, fault tolerance, telemetry, logging, and alerting across distributed and microservices architectures
• Improve fault tolerance for distributed/microservices systems when components or resources become temporarily unavailable
• Conduct trend analysis of system performance and resource utilization to forecast future demand and identify bottlenecks
• Implement real‑time proactive monitoring dashboards enabling visibility into system health and alerting

Skills

Automation

Observability

Incident analysis

Documentation

Public Trust

Fault tolerance

Education

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

Tools

Jira

GitHub

Job description

Integral is seeking a Cloud Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Systems Engineer to ensure reliability, availability, and performance of VA product environments deployed in the VA Enterprise Cloud (VAEC) for the Department of Veterans Affairs.

You will apply SRE practices across cloud environments, patching, automation, incident handling, capacity planning, and real-time monitoring, with responsibilities spanning 24x7 operations and cross‑team collaboration.