SRE: 99.9% Uptime in Multi-Cloud & Kubernetes

Gridiron IT; Arlington (VA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

HSAs/FSAs

401(k)

Disability & ADD insurance

Life and pet insurance

Job summary

Gridiron IT is seeking a DevOps Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to ensure continuous availability, performance, and health of the enterprise platform across multi-cloud environments.

You will implement monitoring, alerting, and automation, handle on-call incidents within 1 hour, and collaborate with CSPs to maintain 99.9% uptime. This role requires strong SRE skills, scripting in Python/Bash, and a calm, methodical approach to outages.

Qualifications

• Strong background in Site Reliability Engineering principles and practices.
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes deployments and orchestration.
• Proven experience managing and troubleshooting multi-cloud environments (GCP, Azure, AWS).
• Expertise in setting up and managing monitoring, logging, and automated alerting systems.
• Proficiency in scripting and automation (e.g., Python, Bash) for system stabilization and diagnostic tasks.

Responsibilities

• Continuous Monitoring: Provide 24/7 infrastructure health monitoring and automated telemetry tracking to maintain the mandated 99.9% core platform availability.
• Incident Response: Serve on-call to respond to major incidents or platform downtime within 1 hour of notification, executing rapid platform downtime response and system stabilization maneuvers.
• Automation: Develop and maintain a library of scripts and internal tools to streamline and automate repetitive diagnostic tasks, health checks, and data-gathering procedures.
• Dashboarding & Telemetry: Create and maintain automated dashboards for uptime, incident status, API latency, and other critical support metrics to ensure platform health visibility.
• Vendor Coordination: Lead direct engineering-level coordination with Cloud Service Providers (CSPs) during outages or underlying infrastructure issues.
• Reliability Engineering: Continuously evaluate, monitor, and provide recommended improvements to logging, system metrics, and architecture to ensure the platform remains rapidly scalable and highly available.

Skills

Site Reliability Engineering

Kubernetes

Multi-cloud (GCP/Azure/AWS)

Monitoring & alerting

Scripting (Python/Bash)

Tools

Kubernetes

Job description

Gridiron IT is seeking a DevOps Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to ensure continuous availability, performance, and health of the enterprise platform across multi-cloud environments.

You will implement monitoring, alerting, and automation, handle on-call incidents within 1 hour, and collaborate with CSPs to maintain 99.9% uptime. This role requires strong SRE skills, scripting in Python/Bash, and a calm, methodical approach to outages.