Senior Gov Cloud SRE - Regulated Ops & Security

catonetworks; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

catonetworks seeks an experienced Site Reliability Engineer to own reliability and operational readiness of cloud services in regulated government environments. You will oversee production operations, resilient infra, and ongoing security and compliance practices essential to sustaining authorized platforms.

You will lead incident response, implement robust security controls, and drive audits, monitoring, and evidence collection across Kubernetes, Linux, and cloud infrastructure.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in site reliability, production, cloud operations, or infrastructure engineering.
• Experience running regulated cloud environments (e.g., FedRAMP, DoD impact-level) including isolated government deployments.
• Experience supporting authorization and post-authorization monitoring, vulnerability tracking and control assessments.
• Strong knowledge of NIST 800-53, remediation timelines, secure configuration, and audit evidence.
• Experience with infrastructure as code, GitOps, secure CI/CD, and container hardening.
• Proficiency in Python, Go, or Bash, plus Kubernetes, Prometheus, Grafana, and Linux/Unix.

Responsibilities

• Operate critical distributed services and improve their availability, performance, scalability, and health.
• Build and maintain highly available cloud infrastructure for regulated deployments.
• Lead incident response, root cause reviews, remediation, change governance, and disaster recovery exercises.
• Apply security controls and configuration baselines across Kubernetes, Linux, container runtimes, and cloud infrastructure.
• Support audits and continuous monitoring through evidence gathering, vulnerability management, and configuration tracking.
• Automate compliance checks and improve secure delivery pipelines, infrastructure as code, and observability.

Skills

Cloud operations

Incident management

Security governance

Audit readiness

Programming (Python/Go/Bash)

Kubernetes

Tools

Kubernetes

Prometheus

Grafana

Linux/Unix

CI/CD

Infrastructure as code

GitOps

Job description

catonetworks seeks an experienced Site Reliability Engineer to own reliability and operational readiness of cloud services in regulated government environments. You will oversee production operations, resilient infra, and ongoing security and compliance practices essential to sustaining authorized platforms.

You will lead incident response, implement robust security controls, and drive audits, monitoring, and evidence collection across Kubernetes, Linux, and cloud infrastructure.