Senior Cloud SRE: Python, Terraform & AWS Reliability

Peraton; Washington (District of Columbia); Remote; USD 130,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work

Job summary

Peraton is seeking a Senior Cloud Site Reliability Engineer to design and develop Python-based AWS cloud solutions and reliability tools for the Cloud Foundation Services platform. You will apply IaC with Terraform to build scalable, reusable utilities that improve platform reliability across federal systems.

Remote work is available, and you will collaborate within Agile teams to drive incident response, postmortems, and continuous improvement of SRE practices.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of advanced Python development experience.
• 7+ years of software development with focus on reliability and platform engineering.
• 3+ years of hands-on experience in AWS environments with core services and cost optimization.
• 3+ years of experience applying SRE principles including observability, toil automation, SLIs/SLOs and reliability engineering.
• Expert-level proficiency with Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, including module development and state management.
• Strong experience with CI/CD pipelines, automated testing frameworks, and DevOps practices.
• Experience with observability tools and practices including Grafana, AWS CloudWatch, AWS Canary.
• Experience defining, implementing, and managing SLOs/SLIs; familiarity with RCAs and postmortem documentation.
• Agile and Scaled Agile environments familiarity and ITSM processes.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain reliability solutions and SRE utilities using Python in AWS environments.
• Build automation scripts, APIs, and utilities in Python to reduce toil and improve reliability.
• Implement observability and monitoring solutions (Grafana, CloudWatch) using Python.
• Develop IaC using Terraform to manage AWS resources for SRE solutions.
• Develop CI/CD pipelines and automated testing to ensure code quality and rapid delivery of the solutions.
• Define SRE standards, best practices, and guidelines; establish SLI, SLO metrics.

Skills

Python

AWS

Terraform

CI/CD

DevOps

Observability

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Grafana

CloudWatch

Lambda

EventBridge

Job description

Peraton is seeking a Senior Cloud Site Reliability Engineer to design and develop Python-based AWS cloud solutions and reliability tools for the Cloud Foundation Services platform. You will apply IaC with Terraform to build scalable, reusable utilities that improve platform reliability across federal systems.

Remote work is available, and you will collaborate within Agile teams to drive incident response, postmortems, and continuous improvement of SRE practices.