Site Reliability Engineer, US Gov

Quindar Inc.; Arvada, Northern (CO, KY); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Unlimited PTO

Comprehensive health insurance

4% 401(k) matching

On-site work in Colorado

Job summary

Quindar Inc. is seeking an experienced SRE/DevOps professional to architect, automate, test, deploy, and maintain a highly available cloud infrastructure in AWS GovCloud and AWS C2E.

The role emphasizes security, SOC2/NIST/FedRAMP readiness and engineering collaboration across teams to meet performance metrics. You will drive readiness for deployment onto AWS C2E, manage government-site deployments, and participate in 24/7 on-call support, with a focus on reducing manual intervention through

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field.
• 3+ years of professional experience as an SRE, DevOps, reliability, infrastructure, or platform engineer.
• Active U.S. Security Clearance (Secret or higher required; TS/SCI preferred).
• U.S. Citizenship required.
• Experience working toward ATO/authorization in federal, DoD, or IC environments preferred.
• Experience supporting GovCloud, C2S/C2E, or IL-enclave deployments highly desirable.

Responsibilities

• Architect, automate, test, deploy, and maintain cloud infrastructure in AWS GovCloud and AWS C2E with strong security and compliance.
• Manage deployment and ongoing maintenance of Quindar deployments at government sites.
• Define best practices for availability, latency, and performance across services.
• Drive readiness and deployment onto AWS C2E, including control implementation and networking requirements.
• Incident management and 24/7 on-call rotation with hands-on troubleshooting of enterprise systems.
• Collaborate with frontend, backend, and flight/mission operations engineers to ensure operational performance.

Skills

Kubernetes experience

Security-minded ops

Incident management

DevOps automation

CI/CD pipelines

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

AWS EKS

Terraform

GitLab Workflows

Datadog / Grafana

Cloud security tools

Job description

What You’ll Be Doing

Architect, automate, test, deploy, and maintain a well-designed, highly available cloud infrastructure in AWS GovCloud and AWS C2E with a strong focus on security, compliance, and operational excellence. You will ensure adherence to SOC2, NIST 800-171, and FedRAMP Moderate controls while supporting cleared environments and workflows.

You will also manage the deployment and ongoing maintenance of Quindar deployments at government sites. As the team grows, you will define best practices for availability, latency, and performance across all services.

A key mission focus will be driving Quindar’s readiness and deployment onto AWS C2E, including control implementation, continuous container hardening, deployment configuration, and networking requirements.

Some of your responsibilities will include incident management, supporting a 24/7 on-call rotation, and technical troubleshooting of complex enterprise and mission-critical systems. Ideally, the systems and automation you create significantly reduce the need for manual intervention.

You will work closely with engineering teams (frontend, backend, and flight/mission operations engineers) to ensure the Quindar system is operational to all required performance metrics.

Technical Skills

• Deep experience with Kubernetes, containerized workloads, and serverless architectures

• Expertise managing Kubernetes clusters with AWS EKS or Rancher as well as with integrating AWS cloud-specific services

• Hands-on experience supporting GovCloud, IL-enclave deployments, or C2E environments

• Experience managing and using observability stacks such as Grafana LGTM, Datadog, etc.

• Proficiency in Python and Terraform (or similar IaC tooling)

• Strong understanding of networking: VPNs, NLB/ALBs, HTTPS, TLS, VPC peering, and CDN integration

• Strong knowledge of designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting API services, distributed NoSQL/relational databases, caching systems, event-driven architectures, and multi-tier systems

• Strong background in task automation and CI/CD pipeline development (GitLab Workflows preferred but not required)

• Understanding of Unix/Linux operating systems

• Knowledge of cloud security best practices, enclave boundary protections, enclave-to-enclave interconnects, and cost-efficient architectures

• Experience with identity and access management (Auth0, Keycloak, AWS IAM, or ICAM patterns)

• Strong git fundamentals and preferred experience managing software product deployment across multiple classification levels.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field

• 3+ years of professional experience as an SRE, DevOps, reliability, infrastructure, or platform engineer

• Active U.S. Security Clearance (Secret or higher required; TS/SCI preferred)

• U.S. Citizenship required

• Experience working toward ATO/authorization in federal, DoD, or IC environments preferred

• Experience supporting deployments in GovCloud, C2S/C2E, or IL-enclave environments highly desirable

ITAR REQUIREMENTS

• To conform to U.S. Government export regulations, applicant must be a (i) U.S. citizen or national, (ii) U.S. lawful, permanent resident (aka green card holder), (iii) Refugee under 8 U.S.C. § 1157, or (iv) Asylee under 8 U.S.C. § 1158, or be eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State. Learn more about the ITAR here.

Why you'll love working at Quindar

• We work in a cutting edge industry and you will get the opportunity to be part of a small team with a large direct impact on the success of our customers’ space missions!

• We take work life balance very seriously. We require employees to take 15 days off but provide unlimited PTO and follow most US federal government holidays.

• Mental health is just as important as physical so we provide quarterly health & wellness benefits.

• Comprehensive health insurance for you and your family with 100% coverage for employees.

• We encourage employees to save for retirement and provide 4% 401(k) matching.

• Annually we have a 4-day company offsite. Previous locations include San Francisco, Nashville, Denver, Santa Fe, New Orleans, San Diego, Bozeman, and New York City.

• Our culture and company is evolving. You will be key in creating the next major or minor version!