Lead Site Reliability Engineer - Cloud Reliability & DR

Peraton; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 112,000 - 179,000; Full time

Job summary

Peraton is seeking a Lead Site Reliability Engineer to join our team responsible for the reliability, resilience, and recoverability of mission-critical platforms. You will lead infrastructure-level disaster recovery drills, validate platform rebuild procedures, and oversee automated deployment processes.

You will partner with cross-functional teams to modernize cloud environments, implement IaC with Terraform and CloudFormation, manage Kubernetes clusters, and build observability using

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree and 8–10 years of relevant SRE/DevOps experience; or 12 years with a high school diploma.
• Expert level hands on knowledge of AWS services across compute, networking, storage, IAM, and serverless components.
• Strong experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation) and infrastructure automation principles.
• Experience building CI/CD deployment pipelines and progressive delivery mechanisms using GitHub actions or similar tools.
• Deep understanding of Kubernetes administration, container orchestration, and Docker based deployments.
• Proven experience validating DR processes, performing system rebuilds, and conducting data integrity checks.

Responsibilities

• Leading DR drills and platform rebuild validation to ensure 48-hour recovery targets are met.
• Executing infrastructure-level drill activities to validate complete rebuild capability.
• Verifying data integrity during drills and documenting remediation recommendations.
• Identifying and closing readiness gaps across infra, automation, monitoring, and data recovery.
• Designing and supporting automated IaC workflows using Terraform, CloudFormation, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Managing and optimizing Kubernetes clusters and Docker workloads, including scaling and reliability improvements.
• Building observability through CloudWatch, Datadog, and other monitoring tools for proactive incident response.
• Developing automation scripts using Python/Java to reduce manual tasks.
• Collaborating with platform engineering, security, applications, and data teams on secure, compliant operations.
• Participating in on-call rotations and incident response to improve resilience.

Skills

AWS services

IaC (Terraform/CloudFormation)

CI/CD (GitHub Actions)

Kubernetes/Docker

Observability (CloudWatch, Datadog)

Python/Java/C#

Disaster Recovery

Incident response

Security/compliance

Documentation

Education

Bachelor’s degree

8–10 years SRE/DevOps experience

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

GitHub Actions

Kubernetes

Docker

CloudWatch

Datadog

Job description

Peraton is seeking a Lead Site Reliability Engineer to join our team responsible for the reliability, resilience, and recoverability of mission-critical platforms. You will lead infrastructure-level disaster recovery drills, validate platform rebuild procedures, and oversee automated deployment processes.

You will partner with cross-functional teams to modernize cloud environments, implement IaC with Terraform and CloudFormation, manage Kubernetes clusters, and build observability using