Remote Senior Cloud SRE: Python, Terraform & AWS

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

Job summary

Peraton is seeking a Senior Cloud Site Reliability Engineer to design and develop Python-based AWS cloud solutions and reliability tools for the Cloud Foundation Services platform. This remote role focuses on applying IaC with Terraform and building scalable, reusable reliability utilities for the Federal Reserve System.

You will implement observability with Grafana and CloudWatch, develop CI/CD pipelines, and define SRE standards while collaborating in Agile teams to deliver secure, reliable

Qualifications

• U.S. citizen and ability to obtain Public Trust clearance
• Bachelor's degree with 8+ years of experience or equivalent education/experience
• 5+ years of advanced Python development for AWS
• 7+ years of software development focused on reliability
• 3+ years of hands-on AWS environment experience (EC2, VPC, S3, Lambda, IAM, CloudFormation, EventBridge, Step Functions)
• 3+ years applying SRE principles including observability, toil automation, SLIs/SLOs
• Expert-level Terraform IaC with module development and state management
• Strong CI/CD and automated testing experience
• Experience with Grafana and AWS CloudWatch
• Experience defining and managing SLOs/SLIs; RCA/postmortem practices
• Familiarity with ITSM processes, resilience testing and chaos engineering
• Experience in Agile/Scaled Agile environments

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain reliability solutions and SRE utilities using Python in AWS to improve platform reliability
• Build automation scripts, APIs, and utilities in Python to reduce toil
• Implement observability and monitoring solutions (Grafana, CloudWatch) with Python-based metrics and dashboards
• Develop Terraform IaC to manage AWS resources and optimize costs
• Create and optimize CI/CD pipelines and automated tests for rapid delivery
• Define SRE standards, metrics (SLI/SLOs) and guidelines for adoption
• Apply version control, code reviews, TDD, and documentation across development
• Participate in incident management; on-call rotation and root-cause postmortems
• Stay current with AWS services and drive adoption of new cloud-native solutions
• Collaborate in Agile/Scaled Agile environments to deliver integrated cloud automation
• Produce blameless postmortems with actionable follow-ups

Skills

Python

Terraform

AWS

SRE principles

Observability

CI/CD

DevOps practices

Agile

On-call support

Cost optimization

Education

Bachelor's Degree

High School diploma or equivalent with 12 years of experience

Tools

Terraform

Grafana

AWS CloudWatch

EC2

S3

Lambda

EventBridge

CloudFormation

Job description

Peraton is seeking a Senior Cloud Site Reliability Engineer to design and develop Python-based AWS cloud solutions and reliability tools for the Cloud Foundation Services platform. This remote role focuses on applying IaC with Terraform and building scalable, reusable reliability utilities for the Federal Reserve System.

You will implement observability with Grafana and CloudWatch, develop CI/CD pipelines, and define SRE standards while collaborating in Agile teams to deliver secure, reliable