Senior SRE – Remote GovCloud Kubernetes & Terraform

MariaDB plc; Salt Lake City (UT); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 205,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Life insurance

Disability insurance

Flexible PTO

401(k)

Paid holidays

Parental leave

Job summary

MariaDB plc seeks a Site Reliability Engineer to own and operate production Kubernetes in US GovCloud and public clouds, driving reliability and automation. You will implement GitOps, CI/CD tooling, and security hardening in federal environments.

You’ll join a global platform engineering team, shaping operating practices, incident response, and runbooks while collaborating with security and compliance teams.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of SRE, DevOps, or infrastructure engineering experience.
• Experience operating production Kubernetes.
• Strong Infrastructure-as-Code skills (Terraform; Terragrunt a plus).
• Experience with GitOps-driven deployment workflows.
• Solid Linux, networking, and TLS fundamentals.
• Experience with observability tooling (Prometheus, Grafana, or similar).
• Scripting or programming proficiency (Go, Python, or Bash).
• Clear written communication - runbooks, incident reports, and changenotes.

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 requirements for federal environments (e.g., FedRAMP).
• Improve automation: turn repetitive tasks into code.
• Participate in an on-call rotation for the environments you operate.

Skills

Kubernetes

Terraform

Terragrunt

GitOps

Linux

Networking

TLS basics

Prometheus

Grafana

Go

Python

Bash

Incident reports

Written communication

Tools

Terraform

Terragrunt

Prometheus

Grafana

Job description

MariaDB plc seeks a Site Reliability Engineer to own and operate production Kubernetes in US GovCloud and public clouds, driving reliability and automation. You will implement GitOps, CI/CD tooling, and security hardening in federal environments.

You’ll join a global platform engineering team, shaping operating practices, incident response, and runbooks while collaborating with security and compliance teams.