SRE Technical Lead - 174343

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

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive benefits

Fully remote work

PTO

Job summary

Piper Companies is seeking an SRE Technical Lead to guide a large-scale government-focused tech initiative. You will lead Kubernetes-based infrastructure, implement Terraform automation, and establish cloud reliability strategies in a fully remote environment.

The role emphasizes mentorship, incident management, and proactive platform enhancements to boost scalability, security, and performance across AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in infrastructure, cloud engineering, or SRE.
• Expertise with Kubernetes administration and orchestration.
• Hands-on Terraform and IaC experience.
• Experience with AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.
• Security clearance eligibility (Secret).

Responsibilities

• Lead design and support of Kubernetes-based production environments.
• Develop Infrastructure as Code solutions using Terraform.
• Establish reliability standards: monitoring, alerts, incident response, DR.
• Collaborate to improve scalability, security, performance.
• Mentor engineers on SRE best practices.
• Drive automation to reduce overhead and improve stability.

Skills

SRE Leadership

Kubernetes administration

Terraform / IaC

Cloud environments (AWS/Azure/GCP)

Observability & incident mgmt

Tools

Kubernetes

Terraform

AWS

Azure

Google Cloud

Job description

Piper Companies is seeking an SRE Technical Lead to support a large-scale government-focused technology initiative. The SRE Technical Lead will provide technical leadership for Kubernetes-based infrastructure, Terraform automation, and cloud reliability strategies while mentoring a team of engineers in a highly collaborative remote environment.

Responsibilities of the SRE Technical Lead:

• Lead the design, implementation, and support of Kubernetes-based production environments.
• Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code solutions utilizing Terraform.
• Establish reliability standards including monitoring, alerting, incident response, and disaster recovery initiatives.
• Collaborate with engineering and architecture teams to improve system scalability, security, and performance.
• Mentor engineers and provide technical guidance on SRE best practices.
• Drive automation efforts to reduce operational overhead and improve platform stability.

Qualifications of the SRE Technical Lead:

• Must be eligible to obtain and maintain a Secret Security Clearance.
• 7+ years of infrastructure, cloud engineering, or Site Reliability Engineering experience.
• Expertise with Kubernetes administration and orchestration.
• Strong hands-on experience with Terraform and Infrastructure as Code methodologies.
• Experience supporting cloud environments within AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.
• Knowledge of observability tools, incident management processes, and system performance tuning.
• Previous leadership or team lead experience.

Compensation for the SRE Technical Lead includes:

• Salary range: $150,000 - $180,000 depending on experience
• Comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, vision, 401(k), and PTO
• Fully remote work environment

This job opens for applications on 09/18/2026. Applications for this job will be accepted for at least 30 days from the posting date.