Remote Night-Shift SRE — Cloud Infra Reliability

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

Job summary

Peraton is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer (Night Shift) to join a team responsible for the reliability of production systems in AWS Commercial and AWS GovCloud environments. The role emphasizes OpenShift ROSA, observability, and automation, with a shift from 11pm to 7am EST and a remote work location.

The role partners with platform engineers, security, and developers to ensure reliable infrastructure that meets security requirements, with on-call incident management and deployment

Qualifications

• United States citizen with ability to obtain Public Trust clearance.
• Bachelor's Degree and 8+ years of experience (or HS diploma/equivalent with 12+ years).
• 7+ years hands-on experience in site reliability engineering, DevOps, or production systems engineering.
• 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 Dynatrace, Datadog, Splunk and OpenTelemetry.
• Demonstrated ownership of an SLI/SLO and alerting program, including error budgets.
• Scripting/automation in Python, Bash, PowerShell, or Go.

Responsibilities

• Operate and maintain production infrastructure services and applications, ensuring availability and 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 service disruptions, including on-call response and root-cause analysis.
• Execute releases through pipelines, including staging/production promotion, validation, rollback, and troubleshooting.
• Manage lifecycle of deployed infrastructure: upgrades, patching, and configuration changes.
• Assess and improve service resilience via capacity planning, testing, DR, backup, and failover.
• Identify reliability risks and waste by analyzing incident trends and capacity data.
• Automate operations using everything-as-code to improve consistency and efficiency.
• Collaborate with platform teams to improve reliability and operability of the environment.

Skills

SRE experience

DevOps

Observability

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Tools

Terraform

Ansible Tower

ROSA/OpenShift

AWS GovCloud

GitLab

Jenkins

Dynatrace

Datadog

Splunk

OpenTelemetry

Job description

Peraton is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer (Night Shift) to join a team responsible for the reliability of production systems in AWS Commercial and AWS GovCloud environments. The role emphasizes OpenShift ROSA, observability, and automation, with a shift from 11pm to 7am EST and a remote work location.

The role partners with platform engineers, security, and developers to ensure reliable infrastructure that meets security requirements, with on-call incident management and deployment