DevOps Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

IT Veterans; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

IT Veterans is seeking a DevOps Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to ensure reliability, performance, and 99.9% uptime for a mission-critical DoD platform in Washington, DC. The role blends development and operations, focusing on automated deployment, robust monitoring, incident response, and system automation across multi-cloud environments.

You will design dashboards, respond to incidents, and drive resilience.

Qualifications

• TS/SCI security clearance required.
• Strong understanding of Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) principles.
• Hands-on experience deploying containerized apps with Kubernetes.
• Experience managing multi-cloud environments (GCP, Azure, AWS).
• Experience with enterprise monitoring, logging, and alerting.

Responsibilities

• Monitor health and performance of enterprise infrastructure with automated telemetry.
• Participate in on-call rotation and respond to incidents within one hour.
• Develop and maintain automation scripts and internal tools.
• Design dashboards for real-time platform health and uptime metrics.
• Coordinate with cloud providers during outages to speed resolution.
• Continuously assess reliability, logging, monitoring, and architecture.

Skills

SRE principles

On-call incident response

Automation scripting (Python/Bash)

Tools

Kubernetes

GCP

Azure

AWS

Monitoring & logging tools

Job description

DevOps Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

Location: Washington, D.C.

Clearance Required: TS/SCI

Position Overview

IT Veterans is seeking a DevOps Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to support the reliability, performance, and operational stability of a mission-critical enterprise platform. This position plays a vital role in ensuring continuous availability across multi-cloud environments while supporting software deployments, infrastructure monitoring, incident response, and system automation.

The ideal candidate will help bridge development and operations by implementing reliable deployment practices, building robust monitoring capabilities, and rapidly responding to production issues to maintain the required 99.9% platform availability for critical Department of Defense (DoD) systems.

Key Responsibilities:

• Monitor the health and performance of enterprise infrastructure through continuous system monitoring and automated telemetry to support the required 99.9% platform uptime.
• Participate in an on-call rotation and respond to major incidents or platform outages within one hour of notification, executing rapid troubleshooting and system stabilization activities.
• Develop, maintain, and enhance automation scripts and internal tools that streamline diagnostics, health checks, and routine operational tasks.
• Design and maintain dashboards that provide real-time visibility into platform health, including uptime, API performance, incident status, and other key operational metrics.
• Coordinate directly with Cloud Service Providers (CSPs) during infrastructure outages or service disruptions to expedite issue resolution.
• Continuously assess system reliability, logging, monitoring, and overall architecture, providing recommendations that improve scalability, resiliency, and operational efficiency.

Required Qualifications:

• TS/SCI security clearance.
• Strong understanding of Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) principles and best practices.
• Hands-on experience deploying and managing containerized applications using Kubernetes.
• Experience administering and troubleshooting multi-cloud environments, including Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Microsoft Azure, and Amazon Web Services (AWS).
• Experience implementing and maintaining enterprise monitoring, logging, and automated alerting solutions.
• Proficiency with scripting and automation using languages such as Python, Bash, or similar technologies.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Passion for building and maintaining highly reliable, mission-critical systems with demanding uptime requirements.
• Ability to remain composed and methodical while responding to high-priority production incidents.
• Strong troubleshooting, root cause analysis, and diagnostic skills with a focus on rapid issue resolution.
• A continuous improvement mindset with an emphasis on automation and eliminating repetitive operational tasks.
• Experience supporting secure, cloud-native environments within government or defense organizations is a plus.

At IT Veterans LLC, we are committed to providing an environment of mutual respect where equal employment opportunities are available to all applicants and teammates without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, national origin, age, physical and mental disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information, military and veteran status, and any other characteristic protected by applicable law. We believe that diversity and inclusion among our teammates is critical to our success.