Site Reliability Engineer with Security Clearance

Peerless Technologies Corporation; Dayton (OH); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Peerless Technologies Corporation seeks a Senior Sight Reliability Engineer to own the reliability of systems you don’t write, focusing on resilience and preventions over firefighting. You’ll operate primarily with Kubernetes infrastructure, GitOps patterns, and DR strategy, aiming to raise the reliability floor through high-leverage work.

Ideal candidates have 3-7+ years in Ops/DevOps, a CS/CE-related degree, US citizenship, and the ability to obtain TS clearance.

Qualifications

• 3-7+ years of experience in Operations, Sys Admin, DevOps, or Software engineering
• US Citizenship & Must have or be able to obtain a Top Secret Clearance
• Bachelor’s Degree in CS, Computer Engineering, or related technical field

Responsibilities

• Own the reliability of systems they don't write, focusing on resilience and reliability outcomes
• Spend most of their time on planned, high-leverage work to raise the reliability floor for everyone
• Contribute to capacity planning and disaster recovery (DR) strategy

Skills

Systems thinking

Observability fundamentals

Communication & collaboration

Automation & runbook

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS/CE or related field

Tools

Kubernetes

Argo CD

Docker

Prometheus

Grafana

Locust

Gatling

Python

Go

GitLab/GitHub

Jenkins

Job description

The Senior Sight Reliability Engineer role owns the reliability of systems they don't write. They bring the experience to spend most of their time preventing fires rather than fighting them. They remain in the on-call rotation and are effective incident responders, but their primary contribution is the foundational work that raises the reliability floor for everyone. Working primarily with: Kubernetes infrastructure, GitOps patterns, progressive delivery, rollback automation, capacity planning, and disaster recovery (DR) strategy. Our Senior SREs are less focused on keeping platforms running and more focused on resilience and reliability outcomes - building the internal capability that lets SREs and dev teams ship with confidence. Their success is measured by the same standard, at a higher bar: most of their time is in planned, high-leverage work.

Looking for a US citizen who can be IN PERSON in Dayton Ohio, Huntsville AL, or St. Louis MO.

Required Qualifications 3-7+ years of experience in Operations, Sys Admin, DevOps, or Software engineering

Bachelor’s Degree in CS, Computer Engineering, or related technical field

US Citizenship & Must have or be able to obtain a Top Secret Clearence

Systems thinking – understanding how systems fail together, blast radius, and more

Observability Fundamentals – not just the 3 signals, but knowing why and how to use telemetry to optimize services and engineering quality of life

• Software engineering – building automation & non-trivial APIs, git workflows, leading code reviews Linux/networking fundamentals Strong Communication, Collaboration, and Organizational Skills Specialty Skills: (2 or more) Platform & Infrastructure - Kubernetes, ArgoCD/GitOps, DR, capacity planning Observability - OTel standards, Grafana/Perses, Tempo, Clickhouse, VictoriaMetrics Automation & Toil Reduction - scripting, CI/CD, runbook automation, “DevOps” Developer Enablement - instrumentation SDKs, SRE practice onboarding Data & Alerting - dashboard quality, alert design, anomaly detection Desired Qualifications SRE Certifications from The DevOps Institute, AWS Solution Architect, or similar Hands-on experience with: Python, Go, Kubernetes, Argo CD, GitLab/GitHub, Jenkins, Docker, Locust/Gatling, Prometheus, Grafana/Perses