Senior AWS Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) (REMOTE)

Koniag Services, Inc.; Washington, Northern (District of Columbia, KY); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Dental and vision insurance

401K with company matching

Paid holidays

3 weeks paid time off

Job summary

Koniag Services, Inc. seeks a Senior AWS Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to support CRM, Integration, and Platform Services in a remote capacity. The role emphasizes AWS cloud platform engineering, Kubernetes operations, CI/CD, observability, and reliability for a government-focused environment.

The ideal candidate has 7+ years in site reliability, strong AWS expertise, and holds or can obtain a Public Trust clearance. A related Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience is required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience.
• 7+ years of site reliability, production ops, and cloud platform engineering.
• Hands-on AWS implementation and operations experience.
• Experience with Agile delivery teams and translating needs into outcomes.
• AWS certifications or comparable cloud credentials.
• Experience with federal government IT environments and Public Trust programs.
• Familiarity with Section 508, cybersecurity, auditability, and data protection.

Responsibilities

• Design and sustain AWS capabilities using AWS, EKS, ECS, Terraform, and security automation.
• Implement and improve CI/CD pipelines, IaC, container ops, monitoring, and secure deployment automation.
• Translate requirements into practical technical solutions for mission-aligned platforms.
• Support platform architecture, backlog refinement, and release readiness.
• Develop reusable patterns, automation, and runbooks to reduce risk.
• Troubleshoot complex issues across platform components, data, APIs, and identity.

Skills

AWS SRE

CloudPlatform

CI/CD

Public Trust eligibility

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IT or related, or equivalent

Tools

AWS

Kubernetes

Terraform

Packer

Vault

Consul

GitHub Actions

CloudWatch

Job description

Senior AWS Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) (REMOTE)

Virtual

Job Description

Koniag Professional Services, LLC a Koniag Government Services company, is seeking a Senior AWS Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to support KPS and our government customer in Washington, DC. The position is remote. This position requires the candidate to be able to obtain a Public Trust.

We offer competitive compensation and an extraordinary benefits package including health, dental and vision insurance, 401K with company matching, flexible spending accounts, paid holidays, three weeks paid time off, and more.

Koniag Professional Services, a Koniag Government Services company, is seeking a Senior AWS SRE to support the CRM, Integration, and Platform Services workforce. This role will support AWS cloud platform engineering, Kubernetes operations, HashiCorp platform automation, CI/CD, observability, reliability, and AI-enabled delivery practices while helping the customer deliver secure, reliable, accessible, and maintainable digital services. The successful candidate will improve reliability, observability, incident response, performance, capacity, and operational readiness and will work closely with government stakeholders, architects, engineers, product owners, cybersecurity, operations, and business users to convert requirements into mission-aligned platform capabilities.

The Senior AWS SRE will provide site reliability, production operations, and cloud platform engineering support for AWS capabilities within the CRM, Integration, and Platform Services environment.

Principal responsibilities will include but are not limited to:

• Design, configure, develop, integrate, test, document, and sustain AWS capabilities using AWS, EKS, ECS, Terraform, Packer, Vault, Consul, GitHub Actions, CI/CD pipelines, CloudWatch, Open Telemetry, container platforms, and security automation.
• Implement and improve CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, container platform operations, monitoring, alerting, and secure deployment automation.
• Translate business, mission, security, accessibility, and operational requirements into practical technical solutions.
• Support platform architecture, backlog refinement, implementation planning, release readiness, and production transition activities.
• Develop reusable patterns, configuration standards, automation, documentation, and support procedures that reduce delivery and sustainment risk.
• Troubleshoot complex issues across platform configuration, code, data, APIs, identity, security, performance, and user experience.
• Collaborate with cybersecurity, privacy, data, infrastructure, QA, and change management teams to align delivery with federal operating expectations.
• Maintain clear technical documentation, design decisions, implementation notes, test evidence, and operational runbooks.

Education and Experience:

Required:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software Engineering, Data Analytics, Cybersecurity, or a related discipline, or equivalent work experience.
• 7+ years of experience in site reliability, production operations, and cloud platform engineering, preferably in complex enterprise or government environments.
• Hands-on experience with AWS implementation, configuration, development, integration, testing, or operations.
• Experience working with Agile delivery teams and translating stakeholder needs into maintainable technical outcomes.
• AWS Solutions Architect, AWS DevOps Engineer Professional, AWS Security Specialty, Kubernetes certification, Terraform certification, or comparable cloud credential.
• Experience supporting federal government IT environments, Public Trust programs, or regulated enterprise delivery.
• Experience with Section 508, cybersecurity, auditability, data protection, and operational documentation expectations.

Required Skills and Competencies:

• Strong hands-on knowledge of AWS capabilities, implementation patterns, administration, development, integration, and lifecycle management.
• Ability to design and implement secure, supportable, upgrade-aware solutions that avoid unnecessary customization and reduce technical debt.
• Experience with APIs, identity and access controls, data management, testing, monitoring, troubleshooting, and release coordination.
• Ability to document technical designs, configuration decisions, operational procedures, test results, and risks in clear business and technical language.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to work across government stakeholders, product owners, engineers, QA, cybersecurity, and operations teams.
• Ability to obtain a Public Trust clearance.

Desired Skills and Competencies:

• Experience with DevSecOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, infrastructure as code, or platform release automation.
• Knowledge of federal security and compliance concepts including NIST controls, FISMA, FedRAMP-authorized services, audit evidence, and least privilege.
• Experience improving platform governance, reuse, documentation, observability, and operational readiness.
• Familiarity with Microsoft 365, ServiceNow, Atlassian, Snowflake, data catalog, CRM, or enterprise integration ecosystems.

Our Equal Employment Opportunity Policy

The company is an equal opportunity employer. The company shall not discriminate against any employee or applicant because of race, color, religion, creed, ethnicity, sex, sexual orientation, gender or gender identity (except where gender is a bona fide occupational qualification), national origin or ancestry, age, disability, citizenship, military/veteran status, marital status, genetic information or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law. We are committed to equal employment opportunity in all decisions related to employment, promotion, wages, benefits, and all other privileges, terms, and conditions of employment.

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Koniag Government Services (KGS) is an Alaska Native Owned corporation supporting the values and traditions of our native communities through an agile employee and corporate culture that delivers Enterprise Solutions, Professional Services and Operational Management to Federal Government Agencies. As a wholly owned subsidiary of Koniag, we apply our proven commercial solutions to a deep knowledge of Defense and Civilian missions to provide forward leaning technical, professional, and operational solutions. KGS enables successful mission outcomes for our customers through solution-oriented business partnerships and a commitment to exceptional service delivery. We ensure long-term success with a continuous improvement approach while balancing the collective interests of our customers, employees, and native communities. For more information, please visit www.koniag-gs.com.

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