Sr. SRE- Technical Leader - 174220 - 175010

Zachary Piper Solutions; United States; Remote; USD 150,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Full benefits package

Remote work

Paid time off and holidays

Job summary

Piper Companies is seeking a Sr. SRE-Technical Leader to design, operate, and scale a Kubernetes-based platform for highly regulated environments. The role supports FedRAMP High and DoD IL5, and is fully remote.

Responsibilities include defining SLOs/SLIs, building secure CI/CD pipelines, and driving reliability through automation while collaborating with security and compliance teams. Strong leadership is essential.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in SRE/DevOps or platform engineering with leadership.
• Extensive hands-on Kubernetes experience in production.
• Experience with FedRAMP/DoD regulated environments preferred.
• Cloud infra, Linux, networking, IaC (Terraform).
• Proficient in Python or Go and observability stack.
• Strong leadership and cross-team collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Design, operate, and scale large Kubernetes platforms with high compliance.
• Define SLOs/SLIs and drive reliability through automation.
• Build secure CI/CD pipelines and GitOps workflows.
• Collaborate with security/compliance for FedRAMP IL5 controls.
• Lead incident response and blameless postmortems.
• Mentor engineers and shape scalable, developer-friendly platforms.

Skills

SRE leadership

Kubernetes

DevOps

Python/Go

CI/CD

GitOps

Observability

Tools

Kubernetes platforms

ArgoCD

Terraform

Prometheus/Grafana

ELK/OpenTelemetry

Job description

Piper Companies is hiring a Sr. SRE-Technical Leader for a Cloud and Technology company. The Sr. SRE-Technical Leader will help design, operate, and scale a Kubernetes-based platform supporting highly regulated environments, including FedRAMP High and DoD IL5. The Sr. SRE-Technical Leader role is a remote position.

Responsibilities of the Sr. SRE-Technical Leader Include:

• Design, build, and operate large-scale Kubernetes platforms supporting FedRAMP High and DoD IL5 environments, ensuring high availability, security, scalability, and operational excellence.
• Lead reliability engineering initiatives by defining SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets, while improving platform performance through automation, observability, and continuous improvement.
• Develop and maintain secure CI/CD pipelines, GitOps workflows, Infrastructure as Code (Terraform), and Kubernetes deployment automation to streamline application delivery.
• Partner with engineering, security, and compliance teams to implement FedRAMP High and IL5 controls, support ATO activities, and maintain audit-ready platforms without impacting developer productivity.
• Drive incident response, root cause analysis, and blameless postmortems while participating in on-call support and reducing operational toil through automation and platform improvements.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship, helping shape a scalable, developer-friendly platform that balances reliability, security, compliance, and user experience.

Qualifications of the Sr. SRE-Technical Leader include:

• 10+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), DevOps, Platform Engineering, or Infrastructure Engineering, with demonstrated success leading large-scale platform initiatives.
• Extensive hands-on experience designing, building, and operating Kubernetes platforms at scale, including EKS, AKS, GKE, or upstream Kubernetes in production environments.
• Strong experience supporting FedRAMP High, DoD IL5, or other highly regulated environments, with knowledge of NIST 800-53, RMF, STIGs, and compliance-driven operational practices.
• Expertise in cloud infrastructure, Linux administration, networking fundamentals, Infrastructure as Code (Terraform), CI/CD tooling, GitOps, and deployment automation technologies such as ArgoCD.
• Proficiency in Python, Go, or similar programming languages, along with experience building observability solutions using Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, ELK, or comparable platforms.
• Strong technical leadership, communication, and collaboration skills with the ability to mentor engineers, drive architectural decisions, and build scalable, reliable platforms that enable engineering teams to deploy confidently in high-compliance environments.

Compensation for the Sr. SRE-Technical Leader include:

• $150,000-$180,000
• Full Comprehensive Benefits: Health, Vision, Dental, PTO, Paid Holiday and Sick Leave if Required by Law

Keywords: Sr. SRE, senior site reliability engineer, technical leader, SRE tech leader

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This job opens for applications on 9/24/26. Applications for this job will be accepted for at least 30 days from the posting date.