Remote SRE - AWS/OpenShift Reliability Engineer (Evening)

Peraton

Northern (KY)

Hybrid

USD 120,000 - 180,000

Full time

14 days+

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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 ideal candidate has working knowledge of deploying and managing system components in Azure and GCP.

The primary production workload runs on Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS (ROSA) The SRE partners closely with platform engineers, the security team, and application developers to ensure the infrastructure

Qualifications

Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience with 8+ years in related fields
7+ years hands-on experience in site reliability engineering, DevOps, or production systems engineering
Experience operating in AWS Commercial and GovCloud, including OpenShift ROSA or similar Kubernetes platforms
Proficient with infrastructure-as-code tools Terraform and Ansible/Ansible Tower
Experience with CI/CD platforms GitLab and Jenkins and deployment automation
Proficient in Linux and Windows Server administration
Experience with enterprise observability tools like Dynatrace, Datadog, Splunk, OpenTelemetry
Demonstrated ownership of SLI/SLO and alerting programs
Scripting in Python, Bash, PowerShell, or Go
Experience in federal or regulated environments (FISMA, FedRAMP, NIST 800-53)

Responsibilities

Operate and maintain production infrastructure services ensuring availability, reliability, performance, security, and health
Monitor services using SLIs/SLOs, dashboards, alerts; improve issue detection and resolution
Collaborate with application teams to define observability requirements and implement metrics, logs, traces, dashboards, and alerts
Manage production incidents including on-call response, troubleshooting, root-cause analysis, and post-incident actions
Release applications and infrastructure through pipelines with staging/production promotion, validation, and rollback
Manage lifecycle of deployed infrastructure including upgrades, patches, and maintenance
Assess and improve service resilience through capacity planning, testing, disaster recovery, and backups
Identify reliability risks and tech debt using metrics and incident trends to drive improvements
Automate operational activities via as-code approach for consistency and efficiency
Collaborate with platform engineers and developers to improve reliability and operability