Staff Site Reliability Engineer

Protingent; Fort Meade (MD); Presencial; USD 140.000 - 190.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Protingent is seeking a Staff Site Reliability Engineer for on-site operations at Fort Meade, MD. You will design, build, and run large-scale cloud services, lead on-call rotations, and drive reliability through instrumentation, automation, and incident reviews.

You will mentor engineers, improve SLOs/SLIs and observability, and apply AI-assisted techniques while ensuring compliance with FedRAMP/IL6 and cybersecurity standards in a fast-paced SaaS environment.

Formación

• Experience operating large-scale cloud services in production.
• Experience with FedRAMP and IL6 compliance.
• Strong Kubernetes troubleshooting in production.
• Infrastructure as code with Terraform and Helm.
• Proficiency in Go or Python.

Responsabilidades

• Design, build, and operate large-scale cloud infrastructure and services.
• Participate in on-call rotation for high-availability systems.
• Lead incident response and post-incident reviews.
• Define and improve SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets.
• Improve observability with metrics, logging, tracing, dashboards, alerts.
• Develop automation using Go, Python, Terraform.
• Automate toil and enable platform engineering.
• Enhance deployment safety with CI/CD and GitOps.
• Build self-service platforms and guardrails for velocity and security.
• Lead reliability initiatives across teams.
• Mentor engineers in design reviews and incident analysis.
• Apply AI-assisted engineering for incident response and automation.
• Support systems under FedRAMP/IL6 compliance.

Conocimientos

AWS/GCP production

Kubernetes production

Go/Python development

CI/CD and GitOps

Incident response leadership

Herramientas

Terraform

Helm

ArgoCD

Git

OpenSearch

Descripción del empleo

Position Title

Staff Site Reliability Engineer

Position Description

Protingent Staffing has an exciting Direct Hire Staff Site Reliability Engineer opportunity located in Fort Meade, MD

Job Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate large-scale cloud infrastructure and production services
• Participate in an on-call rotation supporting highly available customer-facing systems
• Lead incident response and drive post-incident reviews focused on systemic improvements
• Define, measure, and improve SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets
• Improve observability through metrics, logging, tracing, dashboards, and alerting
• Develop software, automation, and infrastructure using Go, Python, Terraform, and related technologies
• Eliminate operational toil through automation, tooling, and platform engineering
• Improve deployment safety through CI/CD and GitOps practices
• Build self-service platforms and operational guardrails that improve developer velocity while maintaining reliability and security
• Lead complex reliability initiatives spanning multiple engineering teams
• Mentor engineers through design reviews, incident analysis, and knowledge sharing
• Apply AI-assisted engineering techniques to improve incident response, troubleshooting, and automation
• Support systems operating under Federal and DoD compliance frameworks (FedRAMP, IL6)

Job Qualifications

• Proven experience with Federal and DoD compliance frameworks, specifically FedRAMP and Impact Level 6 (IL6)
• Strong experience operating large-scale production services in AWS and/or GCP
• Deep expertise with Kubernetes in production, including troubleshooting networking, storage, scheduling, scaling, and workload lifecycle issues
• Extensive experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Helm)
• Strong software engineering skills in Golang and/or Python
• Experience operating distributed data platforms such as PostgreSQL, Redis, OpenSearch, MySQL, or Cassandra
• Strong understanding of cloud networking fundamentals: DNS, load balancing, ingress, TLS, service networking, and traffic management
• Experience with observability platforms, monitoring strategies, and production telemetry
• Deep understanding of SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, and capacity planning
• Strong understanding of CI/CD pipelines and deployment strategies
• Understanding of cloud security fundamentals, IAM, secrets management, and secure infrastructure design
• Demonstrated success leading engineering initiatives across multiple teams and mentoring engineers
• Preferred: GitOps and ArgoCD
• Preferred: Experience operating large-scale SaaS platforms and Kubernetes-based microservices
• Preferred: Experience implementing AI-assisted operational tooling or automation workflows

Job Details

• Job Type: Direct Hire
• Location: Fort Meade, MD
• Pay Rate Range: Market Rate
• U.S. Citizenship and TS/SCI clearance with Full Scope Polygraph required

About Protingent

Protingent is an Award-Winning provider of top-tier Engineering and IT talent, trusted by companies at the forefront of innovation — from Software and Aerospace to AI, Clean Tech, Medical Devices, and Connected Technologies. We’re passionate about making a positive impact by connecting exceptional talent with meaningful opportunities and helping our clients build the future.