Remote Night-Shift SRE - AWS/OpenShift Reliability

Peraton; United States; On-site; USD 104,000 - 166,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

Dental benefits

Vision benefits

401(k) plan

Paid time off

Parental leave

Job summary

Peraton is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to join a team responsible for the operational reliability of production systems running in AWS Commercial and AWS GovCloud environments. The role requires OpenShift (ROSA) or Kubernetes experience and a shift that aligns with 11pm–7am EST hours.

The position emphasizes on-call incident management, automation, and observability, with a focus on reliability, capacity planning, and secure operations in federal/regulatory contexts.

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.

Responsibilities

• Operate and maintain production infrastructure services and applications, ensuring availability and reliability, performance, security, and operational health.
• Monitor services and applications using SLIs/SLOs, dashboards, alerts, and observability tools; continuously improve detection, diagnosis, and resolution of issues.
• Collaborate with platform engineering and application teams to define observability requirements and implement metrics, logs, traces, and alerts.
• Manage production incidents and on-call response, troubleshooting, restoration, root-cause analysis, and post-incident actions.
• Execute releases through deployment pipelines, including staging/production promotion, validation, rollback, and troubleshooting.
• Automate operational activities using an everything-as-code approach to improve consistency and efficiency.
• Support capacity planning, disaster recovery, backup, failover, and service resilience initiatives.

Skills

SRE/DevOps experience

Automation & scripting

On-call incident handling

OpenShift/Kubernetes familiarity

Cloud service experience

Education

Bachelor's Degree + 8 years experience

High School diploma + 12 years experience

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

GitLab

Jenkins

Dynatrace

Datadog

Splunk

OpenTelemetry

AWS/GovCloud

Job description

Peraton is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to join a team responsible for the operational reliability of production systems running in AWS Commercial and AWS GovCloud environments. The role requires OpenShift (ROSA) or Kubernetes experience and a shift that aligns with 11pm–7am EST hours.

The position emphasizes on-call incident management, automation, and observability, with a focus on reliability, capacity planning, and secure operations in federal/regulatory contexts.