Onsite SRE (TS/SCI) for Mission-Critical Kubernetes

Piper Companies; Fort Meade (MD); On-site; USD 80,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

PTO (Paid Time Off)

Paid holidays

Sick leave

On-site parking

Job summary

Piper Companies seeks an experienced SRE to support mission-critical infrastructure for a government services and technology organization. You will manage Kubernetes clusters, Rancher deployments, and Linux systems to ensure reliability and scalability in secure environments.

The role is a long-term contract, onsite five days a week, and requires an active TS/SCI with a Full Scope Poly. Competitive compensation with comprehensive benefits is offered to qualified candidates.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of enterprise infrastructure experience
• Hands-on Kubernetes administration in production
• Experience with Rancher for cluster management
• Advanced Linux administration and troubleshooting
• Automation and IaC tooling experience
• Familiarity with monitoring/logging stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK)
• Active TS/SCI with Full Scope Poly clearance

Responsibilities

• Administer and optimize Kubernetes clusters in production environments
• Manage Rancher deployments and cluster lifecycles
• Troubleshoot infrastructure, platform, and app issues on Linux systems
• Implement monitoring, logging, and alerting for reliability
• Automate operations using scripting and IaC
• Collaborate with DevOps, security, and engineering teams
• Contribute to incident response and root-cause analysis

Skills

Kubernetes

Rancher

Linux

Automation

Scripting

Infrastructure as Code

Monitoring

Prometheus

Grafana

ELK Stack

Incident Response

CI/CD

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Docker

Job description

Piper Companies seeks an experienced SRE to support mission-critical infrastructure for a government services and technology organization. You will manage Kubernetes clusters, Rancher deployments, and Linux systems to ensure reliability and scalability in secure environments.

The role is a long-term contract, onsite five days a week, and requires an active TS/SCI with a Full Scope Poly. Competitive compensation with comprehensive benefits is offered to qualified candidates.