Senior Site Reliability Engineer — AWS, Kubernetes & DR

Peraton; United States; Remote; USD 130,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Peraton seeks a Lead Site Reliability Engineer to join our team of mission-focused professionals. You will drive reliability, resilience, and recoverability of critical platforms by leading disaster recovery drills, validating platform rebuilds, and automating deployment pipelines.

You will collaborate with platform engineering, security, applications, and data teams to modernize cloud environments, implement automation, and support high-visibility programs across federal initiatives.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree with 8–10 years relevant SRE/DevOps or 12 years with a high school diploma.
• Expert level hands on 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 using GitHub Actions or similar tools.
• Deep understanding of Kubernetes administration, container orchestration, and Docker based deployments.
• Proven experience validating DR processes, performing system rebuilds, and data integrity checks.
• Experience building monitoring tools using CloudWatch, Datadog, or similar observability tools.
• Proficiency with programming/scripting languages such as Python, Java, or C# or Go.
• Experience debugging complex failure modes and ensuring system resilience.
• Strong analytical and documentation skills for cross-functional communication.
• Ability to work in fast-paced, mission-critical environments.
• Ability to obtain a Public Trust clearance.
• US Citizen or Green Card Holder.

Responsibilities

• Support full lifecycle platform portability and DR drill execution, including validation of DR playbooks.
• Execute infrastructure-level drill activities to ensure rebuild within the 48-hour recovery target.
• Verify end-to-end data completeness, integrity, and accuracy during drills and document results.
• Identify exit readiness gaps and drive corrective actions with engineering teams.
• Design, implement, and support automated IaaC workflows using Terraform and CloudFormation plus CI/CD pipelines.
• Manage and optimize Kubernetes clusters and containerized workloads (Docker).
• Build and maintain observability solutions using CloudWatch, Datadog, and other tools for reliability and incident response.
• Develop automation and scripts using Python or Java to reduce manual processes.
• Collaborate with platform engineering, security, applications, and data teams for secure, compliant operations.
• Participate in on-call rotations, root-cause analyses, and incident response to improve resilience.

Skills

SRE experience

AWS expertise

Terraform

CloudFormation

CI/CD pipelines

Kubernetes

Docker

Observability

Python/Java/C# or Go

Disaster recovery

Documentation

Public Trust clearance

US citizenship or GC

Education

Bachelor's degree

High school diploma with 12 years experience

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

GitHub Actions

CI/CD platforms

Kubernetes

Docker

CloudWatch

Datadog

Python

Job description

Peraton seeks a Lead Site Reliability Engineer to join our team of mission-focused professionals. You will drive reliability, resilience, and recoverability of critical platforms by leading disaster recovery drills, validating platform rebuilds, and automating deployment pipelines.

You will collaborate with platform engineering, security, applications, and data teams to modernize cloud environments, implement automation, and support high-visibility programs across federal initiatives.