Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) / Team Lead

Dark Wolf Solutions, LLC; San Antonio (TX); Hybrid; USD 155,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in cybersecurity is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) / Team Lead to enhance platform reliability and operational resilience. This role involves leading a team focused on cloud infrastructure automation and mentoring junior engineers. Ideal candidates will have extensive experience in cloud-native environments and strong leadership skills, with a hybrid work model based in San Antonio, TX.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 8–10 years of experience in system engineering or cloud engineering.
• Minimum of 3 years in a leadership or technical team lead role.
• Experience with AWS, Azure, and Kubernetes orchestration.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Site Reliability Engineering team for platform monitoring and incident response.
• Architect and oversee observability solutions and IaC pipelines.
• Mentor junior SREs and cloud engineers.

Skills

Cloud-native operations

Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

Observability

Automation

Performance optimization

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Engineering, Information Technology

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

Ansible

Elastic Stack

Prometheus

Grafana

Job description

Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) / Team Lead

Dark Wolf Solutions is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) / Team Lead to support the Unified Platform Cyber Operations & Security Center (COSC) in San Antonio, TX. The Senior SRE / Team Lead will be responsible for leading a multi-disciplinary team focused on platform reliability, operational resilience, performance optimization, and cloud infrastructure automation across multi-tenant, classified, and hybrid mission environments.This role blends deep technical expertise in cloud-native operations, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), observability, and automation with leadership responsibilities for mentoring, guiding, and growing a team of SREs.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the Site Reliability Engineering team supporting platform monitoring, incident response automation, service resilience, and performance optimization for COSC environments.
• Architect and oversee deployment of observability solutions including logging, monitoring, alerting, telemetry ingestion, and performance dashboards.
• Design and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) pipelines to automate provisioning, scaling, and configuration of critical platform components.
• Implement and enforce Service Level Objectives (SLOs), Service Level Indicators (SLIs), and Error Budgets to drive operational excellence.
• Develop and optimize incident response workflows and playbooks; lead root cause analysis (RCA) and post-incident reviews (PIRs).
• Manage cloud-native infrastructure in AWS GovCloud, Azure Government, and/or classified cloud environments.
• Collaborate with Platform Engineers, Cloud Security Engineers, and DevSecOps teams to continuously improve system availability and performance.
• Integrate monitoring and telemetry into the COSC SIEM and observability frameworks.
• Support compliance efforts by ensuring observability and operational artifacts align with RMF, STIGs, and NIST standards.
• Mentor junior SREs and cloud engineers, providing technical leadership and professional development support.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related technical field, or equivalent industry experience.
• Minimum of 8–10 years of experience in system engineering, cloud engineering, or platform operations.
• Minimum of 3 years experience in a leadership or technical team lead role.
• Strong experience operating cloud-native environments with AWS, Azure, and/or Kubernetes orchestration.
• Deep understanding of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tooling (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible) and GitOps practices (e.g., ArgoCD).
• Expertise in monitoring and observability frameworks (Elastic Stack, Prometheus, Grafana, Fluentd, Loki, or equivalent).
• Strong knowledge of SRE principles, service reliability engineering, and resilience patterns.
• Experience with security compliance alignment including NIST 800-53, DoD STIGs, and Continuous ATO practices.
• Experience leading incident management activities and conducting root cause analysis (RCA).
• US Citizenship required with an active Secret clearance and eligibility for Top Secret/SCI.

Desired Qualifications

• Certifications such as AWS Certified Solutions Architect, Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA), or Certified DevOps Engineer.
• Familiarity with performance testing, chaos engineering, and fault injection frameworks.
• Hands-on experience building or maintaining self-service internal developer platforms (IDPs).
• Experience supporting DoD or Intelligence Community environments.
• Knowledge of Zero Trust Architecture (ZTA) implementation in cloud-native environments.

The estimated salary range is $155,000.00 - $190,000.00, commensurate on experience, technical expertise, certifications, and clearance level.

Primary work location is San Antonio, TX. Hybrid model with a mix of remote and on-site support; on-site presence required for classified system activities.

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