SRE Platform Engineer - AI/Data Platforms (Secure Azure)

CACI; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 115,000 - 252,000; Full time

Job summary

CACI seeks a seasoned SRE Platform Engineer to support the DHS OIG, ensuring reliability of AI and data platforms including OIG Chat. You will monitor production environments, implement observability, and drive incident response in a secure Azure Government context.

The role emphasizes capacity planning, cost optimization, DR readiness, and operational resilience for mission-critical systems in a trusted environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree plus 15 years of experience in SRE/DevOps or related field; equivalents considered.
• Must be able to obtain an Active DHS/EOD Clearance as required.
• Extensive experience with SRE principles including monitoring, observability, incident response, capacity planning, and reliability engineering.
• Proven expertise with Azure cloud services including compute, storage, networking, monitoring, and PaaS.
• Strong experience with monitoring and observability tools (Azure Monitor, Application Insights, Grafana, Prometheus, ELK) and alerting.

Responsibilities

• Monitor, maintain, and support production environments, ensuring availability and performance.
• Implement observability with dashboards, health checks, and log analysis using Azure tools.
• Lead incident response, root-cause analysis, and emergency changes to restore services.
• Analyze performance metrics to remediate bottlenecks and optimize resources.
• Support capacity planning, autoscaling, and cost optimization for compute and data platforms.
• Develop and maintain runbooks and architecture diagrams to support operations.

Skills

SRE principles

Azure cloud

Monitoring

Incident response

Performance optimization

Reliability engineering

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Azure Monitor

Application Insights

Grafana

Prometheus

ELK stack

Job description

CACI seeks a seasoned SRE Platform Engineer to support the DHS OIG, ensuring reliability of AI and data platforms including OIG Chat. You will monitor production environments, implement observability, and drive incident response in a secure Azure Government context.

The role emphasizes capacity planning, cost optimization, DR readiness, and operational resilience for mission-critical systems in a trusted environment.