Evening SRE - Remote Cloud Reliability Engineer (AWS/ROSA)

Peraton; Herndon (VA); On-site; USD 104,000 - 166,000; Full time

Job summary

Peraton is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer for an evening shift to support production systems in AWS Commercial and GovCloud, with ROSA/OpenShift and Azure/GCP knowledge. Remote work is available, with EST hours from 3pm to 11pm.

You will ensure reliability, observability, and secure operations across multi-cloud environments in a fast-paced federal/commercial setting. The role emphasizes incident management, IaC, and automation, partnering with platform and application teams to improve

Qualifications

• 7+ years hands-on experience in site reliability engineering, DevOps, or production systems engineering.
• Hands-on experience operating in AWS Commercial and AWS GovCloud, including OpenShift (ROSA) or comparable Kubernetes-based platforms.
• Strong infrastructure-as-code experience with Terraform and Ansible/Ansible Tower.
• Experience with CI/CD platforms GitLab and Jenkins, including reliability gating and deployment automation.
• Proficient in Linux and Windows Server administration.
• Experience with enterprise observability tools such as Dynatrace, Datadog, Splunk and Open Telemetry.
• Demonstrated ownership of an SLI/SLO and alerting program, including error budgets, alert rationalization, and noise reduction.
• Scripting/automation proficiency in Python, Bash, PowerShell, or Go.
• Experience operating in federal or regulated environments (FISMA, FedRAMP, NIST 800-53).

Responsibilities

• Operate and maintain production infrastructure services and applications, ensuring availability, reliability, performance, security, and health.
• Monitor services using SLIs, SLOs, dashboards, alerts, and observability tools; improve detection, diagnosis, and resolution of issues.
• Define observability requirements with application teams and implement metrics, logs, traces, dashboards, and alerts.
• Manage production incidents and on-call response, troubleshooting, service restoration, root-cause analysis, and post-incident actions.
• Release applications and infrastructure through pipelines with staging and production promotions, validation, rollback, and troubleshooting.
• Manage lifecycle of deployed infrastructure including upgrades, patches, configuration changes, maintenance, and refreshes.
• Improve service resilience via capacity planning, testing, disaster recovery, backup, failover, and recovery testing.
• Identify reliability risks using metrics, incidents, and capacity data to prioritize improvements.
• Automate operational activities using a code-first approach to improve consistency and efficiency.
• Collaborate with platform engineers and developers to identify requirements and improve environment reliability.

Skills

Terraform

Ansible

GitLab

Jenkins

Python

Bash

PowerShell

Go

Linux administration

Windows Server administration

Education

Bachelor's Degree or higher

Tools

OpenShift ROSA

Kubernetes

Dynatrace

Datadog

Splunk

OpenTelemetry

Job description

Peraton is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer for an evening shift to support production systems in AWS Commercial and GovCloud, with ROSA/OpenShift and Azure/GCP knowledge. Remote work is available, with EST hours from 3pm to 11pm.

You will ensure reliability, observability, and secure operations across multi-cloud environments in a fast-paced federal/commercial setting. The role emphasizes incident management, IaC, and automation, partnering with platform and application teams to improve