Senior SRE - Remote GovCloud & Kubernetes Platform Lead

MariaDB plc; United States; Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 205,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days paid annual leave

Flexible benefits

Job summary

MariaDB plc is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to design, deploy, and operate Kubernetes-based infrastructure in AWS GovCloud and Google Cloud for a government-focused cloud environment.

You will own production reliability, drive automation, and work with security/compliance teams to meet federal requirements. The role offers high visibility and the chance to influence platform design.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of SRE, DevOps, or infrastructure engineering experience, including operating production Kubernetes.
• Strong IaC skills (Terraform; Terragrunt a plus) and GitOps-based deployment workflows.
• Solid Linux, networking, and TLS fundamentals.
• Experience with observability tooling (Prometheus, Grafana, or similar) and log pipelines.
• Scripting or programming proficiency (Go, Python, or Bash).
• Clear written communication—runbooks, incident reports, and change documentation are essential.
• Eligibility: U.S. citizenship and residency in the United States due to federal government cloud access requirements (AWS GovCloud).

Responsibilities

• Deploy and operate Kubernetes-based infrastructure in AWS GovCloud (US) and Google Cloud, using Terraform/Terragrunt and GitOps pipelines.
• Own production reliability for the U.S. government cloud environment: monitoring, alerting, capacity, incident response, and post-incident improvement.
• Run and maintain the platform's supporting services—observability, logging, secrets management, messaging, and CI/CD tooling—on top of Kubernetes.
• Participate in security hardening and compliance for federal environments (FedRAMP).
• Improve automation: turn repetitive tasks into code.
• Take part in an on-call rotation for the environments you operate.

Skills

SRE/DevOps

Terraform/Terragrunt

GitOps

Linux basics

TLS fundamentals

Observability tooling

Go/Python/Bash

Clear communication

Tools

Kubernetes

Prometheus

Grafana

Terraform

Job description

MariaDB plc is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to design, deploy, and operate Kubernetes-based infrastructure in AWS GovCloud and Google Cloud for a government-focused cloud environment.

You will own production reliability, drive automation, and work with security/compliance teams to meet federal requirements. The role offers high visibility and the chance to influence platform design.