Senior Data Platform & SRE Lead

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

Job summary

Karsun Solutions in the United States is seeking a senior technical operations leader to own the cloud-native data and AI platform on AWS for a federal program. You will oversee reliability, observability, incident response, platform engineering, and data-product operationalization.

You will partner with SRE leads to implement SRE practices, automate deployments with Terraform/CloudFormation and CI/CD, design runbooks, and ensure production readiness with security/compliance controls.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of IT experience in relevant roles.
• 7+ years in technical operations / platform / SRE within data-intensive environments.
• 3+ years in AWS production environments.
• Experience with data products lifecycle, SLAs and data contracts.
• Experience operating Databricks, Airflow, S3, Kafka/Kinesis.
• Strong SRE practices incl SLI/SLOs and incident response.
• Hands-on with observability tooling and logging.
• Familiar with IaC (Terraform or CloudFormation) and CI/CD (GitHub Actions/Jenkins/ArgoCD).
• Container orchestration with Kubernetes (EKS).
• Security/compliance in federal environments (RBAC, encryption).
• Excellent written and verbal communication.

Responsibilities

• Serve as primary technical owner for platform availability and runbook development for data pipelines and model serving.
• Collaborate with SRE Lead to design and implement SRE practices (SLIs/SLOs/SLAs, toil reduction).
• Build and maintain monitoring, alerting, and observability across data and AI stacks, including metrics and logging.
• Lead incident management: on-call rotations, RCA, remediation tracking, and continuous improvement.
• Automate operational workflows using IaC and CI/CD; reduce manual toil.
• Define and enforce runbooks, backup/restore, RTO/RPO, and disaster recovery for data/ML systems.
• Partner with data product owners, ML engineers, security, and compliance for production readiness and access controls.
• Manage capacity planning, cost optimization, and performance tuning of AWS resources.
• Mentor and lead an ops/SRE team; coordinate cross-functional platform changes.
• Maintain vendor integrations and coordinate upgrades under federal change-control processes.
• Track reliability metrics and report improvements to stakeholders.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust clearance.

Skills

IT leadership

Platform/SRE

AWS data platforms

Databricks

Airflow

S3

Kafka/Kinesis

Observability tools

Terraform

CI/CD

Kubernetes

Python/Bash

Security/compliance

Stakeholder communication

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

ArgoCD

EKS

Prometheus

Datadog

OpenTelemetry

Job description

Karsun Solutions in the United States is seeking a senior technical operations leader to own the cloud-native data and AI platform on AWS for a federal program. You will oversee reliability, observability, incident response, platform engineering, and data-product operationalization.

You will partner with SRE leads to implement SRE practices, automate deployments with Terraform/CloudFormation and CI/CD, design runbooks, and ensure production readiness with security/compliance controls.