Senior AWS Data & ML Platform SRE Lead

Karsun Solutions, LLC; Texas; On-site; USD 160,000 - 175,000; Full time

Job summary

Karsun Solutions, LLC is seeking an experienced platform SRE leader to own reliability and observability for a cloud-native AWS data and AI platform supporting a federal program. You will drive incident response, IaC-driven deployments and collaboration with security/compliance teams.

Responsibilities include running on-call duties, building runbooks, and mentoring an ops/SRE team while ensuring production readiness and cost optimization for data pipelines, feature stores, and model serving.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of IT experience with progressive responsibility.
• 7+ years in technical operations, platform or SRE in AWS.
• Deep understanding of data products, SLAs and consumer contracts.
• Hands-on with observability tools and log/tracing systems.
• Strong security/compliance experience in federal environments.

Responsibilities

• Own platform availability, reliability and runbooks for data pipelines and ML workloads.
• Design and implement SRE practices (SLIs/SLOs/SLAs, toil reduction).
• Build monitoring, alerting, and observability across data/AI stacks.
• Lead incident management, RCA and remediation tracking.
• Automate deployments, scaling and recovery via IaC and CI/CD.
• Define backup/restore, RTO/RPO and disaster recovery plans.
• Coordinate with data product owners, security and compliance.
• Manage capacity, cost optimization and performance tuning on AWS.
• Mentor an ops/SRE team and coordinate cross-functional changes.

Skills

Platform ownership

Reliability engineering

Observability

Incident management

SRE practices

Cost optimization

Security/compliance

Leadership

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in related field

Tools

AWS

Databricks

Airflow

S3

Kafka/Kinesis

Prometheus

Datadog

OpenTelemetry

Terraform

CloudFormation

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

ArgoCD

Kubernetes

EKS

Python

Bash

Job description

Karsun Solutions, LLC is seeking an experienced platform SRE leader to own reliability and observability for a cloud-native AWS data and AI platform supporting a federal program. You will drive incident response, IaC-driven deployments and collaboration with security/compliance teams.

Responsibilities include running on-call duties, building runbooks, and mentoring an ops/SRE team while ensuring production readiness and cost optimization for data pipelines, feature stores, and model serving.