Site Reliability Engineer — ICAM Platform Automation

Cherokee Federal; Boulder (CO); On-site; USD 110,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) match

Paid time off

Health, dental, vision insurance

Life and AD&D insurance

Disability insurance

Paid holidays

EAP

FSA/HSA options

Professional development support

Voluntary benefits

Job summary

Cherokee Federal is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer in Boulder, CO to own the health, security, and usability of the ICAM environment. You will apply SRE practices to keep delivery platforms reliable and automated, independently administering solutions and driving automation across the lifecycle.

You will partner with engineering teams to improve developer experience, enforce security and compliance, and maintain runbooks, docs, and onboarding guides as part of a standards-driven,

Qualifications

• Working knowledge of SRE fundamentals, including SLOs/SLIs, incident management, and postmortems.
• Experience with monitoring and observability tooling, such as Datadog or Splunk.
• Solid hands-on experience with GitHub and Infrastructure as Code. Terraform experience is a plus.
• Strong working knowledge of GitHub Actions, including workflow design, secrets handling, and runner management.
• Strong working knowledge of AI and leveraging AI to support day-to-day tasks.
• Experience with containerization and at least one cloud platform (Azure or AWS).
• Experience supporting federal government clients or contracts is a plus.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. Government Public Trust or Security Clearance.

Responsibilities

• Administer/support the following: Advanced/Expert level RHEL Administration
• Administer Broadcom/CA DX Directory & LDAP Administration
• Administer Layer7 / CA API Gateway
• Administer DataStax Enterprise Cassandra Operations
• Automate platform administration and operational workflows using scripting and orchestration
• Monitor platform availability and performance against defined SLOs, and tune alerting
• Respond to platform and pipeline incidents, lead troubleshooting, and contribute to blameless postmortems
• Maintain platform documentation, runbooks, and onboarding guides

Skills

SRE fundamentals

Datadog

Splunk

GitHub

Terraform

GitHub Actions

AI assistance

Azure/AWS

Federal contracts

Public Trust readiness

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Datadog

Splunk

GitHub

Terraform

Azure

AWS

Job description

Cherokee Federal is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer in Boulder, CO to own the health, security, and usability of the ICAM environment. You will apply SRE practices to keep delivery platforms reliable and automated, independently administering solutions and driving automation across the lifecycle.

You will partner with engineering teams to improve developer experience, enforce security and compliance, and maintain runbooks, docs, and onboarding guides as part of a standards-driven,