Senior Site Reliability Engineer

GDH; Hampton (VA); On-site; USD 94,000 - 99,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

On-site work

Job summary

GDH is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to maintain the reliability, resilience, and recoverability of mission-critical cloud platforms. You will lead DR drills, validate platform rebuilds, and automate deployment workflows.

You will collaborate across platform engineering, security, applications, and data teams to ensure secure, compliant operations and participate in on-call rotations. The role is on-site in Virginia/Hampton and requires extensive AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree and 8–10 years of relevant SRE/DevOps or cloud engineering experience.
• Expert knowledge of AWS services across compute, networking, storage, IAM, and serverless components.
• Strong experience with Terraform and CloudFormation and automation principles.
• Experience building CI/CD pipelines and progressive delivery using GitHub Actions or similar.
• Deep understanding of Kubernetes administration and Docker deployments.
• Proven DR validation, system rebuilds, and data integrity checks.
• Proficiency with Python or Java or Go.
• Experience debugging complex failures and incident response.
• Strong analytical, documentation, and communication skills.
• Ability to work in fast-paced environments.

Responsibilities

• Support DR drill execution and validate platform rebuild procedures.
• Execute infrastructure drills to meet 48-hour recovery targets.
• Verify data completeness and integrity during drills and document findings.
• Identify readiness gaps in infrastructure, automation, monitoring, and data recovery.
• Design and support IaC workflows using Terraform, CloudFormation, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Manage Kubernetes clusters and containerized workloads; scale and improve reliability.
• Build observability with CloudWatch, Datadog, and other tools.
• Develop automation scripts in Python or Java to reduce manual work.
• Collaborate with platform engineering, security, applications, and data teams.
• Participate in on-call rotations and perform root cause analysis.

Skills

AWS services

CI/CD pipelines

Kubernetes administration

IaC: Terraform/CloudFormation

Programming: Python/Java/C#

Incident response

Monitoring/observability

Data integrity checks

Education

Bachelor's degree in related field

Tools

Terraform

AWS CloudFormation

GitHub Actions

Datadog

CloudWatch

Jenkins

GitLab

Job description

Role Summary

A Senior Site Reliability Engineer is responsible for maintaining the reliability, resilience, and recoverability of mission-critical cloud-based platforms. This role involves leading infrastructure disaster recovery drills, validating platform rebuild procedures, and automating deployment workflows. The engineer collaborates across teams to enhance complex environments, support modernization efforts, and ensure operational continuity.

Responsibilities

• Support full lifecycle platform portability and disaster recovery (DR) drill execution, including validation of platform rebuild procedures and DR playbooks
• Execute infrastructure-level drill activities to ensure the platform can be fully rebuilt within the 48-hour recovery target
• Verify end-to-end data completeness, integrity, and accuracy during drill exercises, documenting results and remediation recommendations
• Identify exit readiness gaps across infrastructure, deployment automation, monitoring, and data recovery processes, and drive corrective actions
• Design, implement, and support automated Infrastructure as Code (IaC) workflows utilizing Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, and CI/CD pipelines
• Manage and optimize Kubernetes clusters and containerized workloads, including provisioning, scaling, and reliability enhancements
• Build and maintain observability solutions using CloudWatch, Datadog, and other monitoring tools for service reliability and proactive incident response
• Develop automation, tooling, and scripts using Python or Java to reduce manual processes and improve operational repeatability
• Collaborate with platform engineering, security, applications, and data teams to ensure secure, compliant, and consistent platform operations
• Participate in on-call rotations, root cause analysis, and incident response activities to strengthen system resilience and operational excellence

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree and 8-10 years of relevant SRE, DevOps, cloud engineering, or infrastructure engineering experience; Master's degree with 6-8 years; or equivalent practical experience
• Expert knowledge of AWS services across compute, networking, storage, IAM, and serverless components
• Strong experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation) and automation principles
• Experience building CI/CD deployment pipelines and implementing progressive delivery mechanisms using GitHub Actions or similar tools
• Deep understanding of Kubernetes administration, container orchestration, and Docker deployments
• Proven experience validating disaster recovery processes, performing system rebuilds, and conducting data integrity checksExperience with monitoring tools like CloudWatch, Datadog, or comparable observability solutions
• Proficiency with programming or scripting languages such as Python, Java, C#, or Go
• Experience debugging complex failure modes, network issues, backpressure, and consistency challenges
• Strong analytical, documentation, and communication skills within technical teams
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment supporting mission-critical systems

Preferred Qualifications

• AWS DevSecOps Engineer certification (preferred)
• Additional AWS certifications (Solutions Architect, SysOps, Developer) and Kubernetes certifications (CKA, CKAD)
• Familiarity with Zero Trust security models and cloud security best practices
• Experience with GitLab, Jenkins, or similar CI/CD platforms
• Experience working in highly regulated environments, such as healthcare, finance, DHS, DoD, or CMS
• Background supporting federal, defense, or large enterprise programs involving legacy-to-cloud modernization
• Prior involvement in large-scale disaster recovery drills, continuity of operations (COOP), or portability/executable readiness assessments

Publishing Pay Range: $68.00- $72.00 Hourly

This position is based in office and requires employee to work on-site.