Senior Cloud Data & SRE Lead (AWS, Federal)

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

Job summary

Karsun Solutions, LLC is seeking an experienced leader to own technical operations for a cloud-native AWS data and AI platform supporting a federal program. You will oversee reliability, observability, incident response, platform engineering, and data-product operationalization.

You will partner with SRE and Data teams to design standards, implement IaC, CI/CD, and monitoring across ETL/ELT, data lakes, and model serving, while ensuring security and compliance for federal environments.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of IT work experience.
• 7+ years in technical operations / platform / SRE; 3+ years in AWS production.
• Experience with data products, SLAs, data lineage, and consumer contracts.
• Experience operating data platforms: Databricks, Airflow, S3, Kafka/Kinesis.
• Strong SRE practice knowledge: SLIs/SLOs, incident response, runbooks.
• Hands-on with observability tools: Prometheus, Datadog, OpenTelemetry; log tracing.
• Familiar with IaC (Terraform or CloudFormation) and CI/CD (GitHub Actions/Jenkins/ArgoCD); Kubernetes; scripting (Python, Bash).
• Security and compliance in federal environments (RBAC, encryption, secrets management).
• Excellent written and verbal communication; ability to produce runbooks and RCA reports.

Responsibilities

• Serve as primary technical owner for platform availability and runbooks for data pipelines and model serving.
• Design and operationalize SRE practices (SLIs/SLOs/SLAs, toil reduction) with the SRE Lead.
• Build and maintain monitoring, alerting, and observability across data and AI stacks.
• Lead incident management: on-call rotations, RCA, remediation tracking, and improvements.
• Automate deployments, scaling, and recovery using IaC and CI/CD pipelines; reduce toil.
• Define runbooks, backup/restore, RTO/RPO, and disaster recovery for data/ML systems.
• Ensure production readiness, access controls, and federal compliance in collaboration with stakeholders.
• Manage capacity planning, cost optimization, and performance tuning of AWS resources.
• Mentor and lead an ops/SRE team; coordinate cross-functional platform changes.

Skills

Platform operations

SRE practices

Observability tooling

AWS experience

CI/CD pipelines

IaC

Kubernetes

Python scripting

Security & compliance

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

ArgoCD

Kubernetes

OpenTelemetry

Datadog

Prometheus

Airflow

Databricks

SageMaker

Job description

Karsun Solutions, LLC is seeking an experienced leader to own technical operations for a cloud-native AWS data and AI platform supporting a federal program. You will oversee reliability, observability, incident response, platform engineering, and data-product operationalization.

You will partner with SRE and Data teams to design standards, implement IaC, CI/CD, and monitoring across ETL/ELT, data lakes, and model serving, while ensuring security and compliance for federal environments.