Senior Site Reliability Manager — AWS, DevSecOps Lead

Karsun Solutions, LLC; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 155,000 - 175,000; Full time

Job summary

Karsun Solutions is seeking a highly experienced Site Reliability Manager to lead a service delivery team focused on Application Reliability, DevSecOps, and Platform Lifecycle Management. You will drive reliability, scalability, and performance for mission-critical systems in the DMV area, with on-site work at offices or customer sites.

You have 10+ years leading SRE teams on AWS, deep container and IaC expertise (Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Ansible, ArgoCD), and strong observability with

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field; Master's degree preferred.
• 10+ years of experience in a similar role managing a team of site reliability engineers and delivering in the AWS cloud platform.
• 5+ years of experience supporting operations and maintenance for cloud-native applications in production that are fault-tolerant, self-healing, scalable, and highly available.
• Deep understanding of the AWS cloud computing platform and containerization technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes).
• Strong knowledge of infrastructure as code tools (e.g., Terraform, Ansible, ArgoCD) and CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience with Datadog as the primary logging, monitoring, and observability platform (alongside AWS Cloudwatch).
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams.
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills, with a keen attention to detail.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust clearance.
• Certifications such as AWS Certified DevOps Engineer are a plus.

Responsibilities

• Lead an 8-20 person service delivery team, mentoring them to foster a culture of learning and innovation.
• Take joint ownership of production reliability, standardize observability and error handling using Datadog, develop SLOs and KPIs, and conduct post-mortems and root cause analyses.
• Define and implement best practices for infrastructure as code, deployment automation, vulnerability management, and resolution.
• Oversee the end-to-end platform lifecycle, collaborate with cross-functional teams to design scalable and fault-tolerant architectures, and drive continuous improvement initiatives.

Skills

AWS

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

Ansible

ArgoCD

Datadog

CloudWatch

CI/CD

Leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree

Tools

Datadog

AWS CloudWatch

Job description

Karsun Solutions is seeking a highly experienced Site Reliability Manager to lead a service delivery team focused on Application Reliability, DevSecOps, and Platform Lifecycle Management. You will drive reliability, scalability, and performance for mission-critical systems in the DMV area, with on-site work at offices or customer sites.

You have 10+ years leading SRE teams on AWS, deep container and IaC expertise (Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Ansible, ArgoCD), and strong observability with