Senior Site Reliability Engineer - 1738

Piper Companies; United States; Remote; USD 150,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Piper Companies is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) - Technical Leader to join a leading cloud technology organization in a fully remote capacity. You will lead the development, reliability, and secure operation of Kubernetes-based platforms supporting highly regulated environments, while driving automation, scalability, and operational excellence.

The role requires 10+ years in SRE/DevOps/Platform Engineering, strong Kubernetes experience across major platforms, and hands-on

Qualifications

• 10+ years in SRE/DevOps/Platform Engineering roles.
• Strong Kubernetes production experience (EKS/AKS/GKE).
• Experience with regulated cloud environments (FedRAMP High/DoD IL5).

Responsibilities

• Lead architecture, deployment, and support of enterprise Kubernetes environments.
• Establish reliability standards via SLOs, SLIs, and monitoring strategies.
• Develop and optimize CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure automation.
• Collaborate with security/compliance to meet regulatory standards.
• Participate in incident management, on-call support, and RCAs.

Skills

Kubernetes

CI/CD pipelines

Terraform

Python

Go

Linux

SRE/DevOps

Observability

Tools

Prometheus

Grafana

OpenTelemetry

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

GitLab CI

ArgoCD

Job description

Piper Companies is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) - Technical Leader to join an established cloud technology organization for a full-time remote position. The Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) - Technical Leader will lead the development and reliability of secure Kubernetes-based platforms supporting highly regulated environments while driving automation, scalability, and operational excellence.

Responsibilities for the Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) - Technical Leader include:

• Lead the architecture, deployment, and support of enterprise Kubernetes environments handling critical workloads.
• Establish reliability standards through SLOs, SLIs, monitoring strategies, and proactive system improvements.
• Develop and optimize CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure automation, and deployment processes to streamline software delivery.
• Collaborate with security and compliance teams to maintain adherence to government and industry regulatory standards.
• Participate in incident management, on-call support, root cause investigations, and ongoing platform enhancements.

Qualifications for the Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) - Technical Leader include:

• 10+ years of experience in SRE, DevOps, Platform Engineering, or Infrastructure Engineering roles.
• Strong expertise managing production Kubernetes environments, including EKS, AKS, GKE, or similar platforms.
• Experience supporting highly regulated cloud environments, including FedRAMP High, DoD IL5, or related frameworks.
• Hands-on knowledge of Terraform, cloud infrastructure, Linux systems, networking, and automation scripting with Python or Go.
• Experience with observability tools, CI/CD platforms, and compliance standards such as NIST 800-53, STIGs, or RMF.

Compensation for the Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) - Technical Leader:

• Salary Range: $150,000 - $180,000
• Comprehensive Benefits: Medical, Dental, Vision, sick leave if required by law, and 401K

This job opens for applications on 9/25/26. Applications for this job will be accepted for at least 30 days from the posting date.

Keywords: site reliability engineer, SRE, Kubernetes, platform engineering, cloud infrastructure, DevOps, Terraform, Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, ArgoCD, Python, Go, Linux, networking, observability, Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, ELK, automation, reliability engineering, cloud operations, FedRAMP, DoD IL5, NIST 800-53, STIG, RMF, incident response, root cause analysis, GitOps, service mesh, hybrid cloud, compliance, cloud security.

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