Senior AI Security SRE for Federal Cloud & Kubernetes

Bizfirst; McLean (VA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision coverage

401(k) employer matching

Tuition reimbursement

Job summary

BizFirst is recruiting a Senior Site Reliability Engineer for AI security within a federal civilian agency environment. You will keep a self-managed, distributed AI runtime security platform on AWS EKS healthy, fast, and compliant, partnering with DevOps and security teams to improve reliability over time.

The role involves operating production Kubernetes clusters, implementing IAM, network controls, and continuous monitoring, while planning upgrades and embracing Terraform/Helm for IaC. U.S.

Qualifications

• Five years of experience in site reliability, DevOps, or cloud infrastructure engineering.
• Experience operating production Kubernetes clusters with monitoring, scaling, and troubleshooting.
• Experience with core AWS services (IAM, VPC, EC2, load balancing, KMS, Secrets Manager, CloudWatch).
• Experience managing infrastructure as code with Terraform.
• Scripting or programming experience in Python, Go, or Bash.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a DHS Public Trust determination.

Responsibilities

• Operate, monitor, and troubleshoot a distributed, high-throughput platform on Amazon EKS.
• Plan and execute upgrades to Kubernetes versions and add-ons with minimal downtime.
• Manage infrastructure as code with Terraform and Helm.
• Design autoscaling, capacity, and load testing to meet latency targets.
• Build and maintain metrics, logs, traces, and alerting; define SLOs; lead incident reviews.
• Implement security requirements, including Secrets Manager, IAM, network controls, and image hardening.

Skills

Site reliability

DevOps

Cloud infrastructure

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Terraform

Kubernetes

AWS

Python

Go

Bash

Job description

BizFirst is recruiting a Senior Site Reliability Engineer for AI security within a federal civilian agency environment. You will keep a self-managed, distributed AI runtime security platform on AWS EKS healthy, fast, and compliant, partnering with DevOps and security teams to improve reliability over time.

The role involves operating production Kubernetes clusters, implementing IAM, network controls, and continuous monitoring, while planning upgrades and embracing Terraform/Helm for IaC. U.S.