Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) – Night Shift

Responsibilities

We are representing a confidential government contractor seeking a Site Reliability Engineer for night shift operations. You will operate and maintain production infrastructure services and applications running in AWS Commercial and AWS GovCloud environments, with the primary workload on Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS (ROSA).

In this role, you will:

• Operate and maintain production infrastructure services and applications, ensuring availability, reliability, performance, security, and operational health
• Monitor services and applications using defined SLIs, SLOs, dashboards, alerts, and other observability tools; continuously improve the detection, diagnosis, and resolution of operational issues
• Partner with application teams to define observability requirements and implement appropriate metrics, logs, traces, dashboards, and alerts
• Manage production incidents and service disruptions, including on-call response, troubleshooting, service restoration, root-cause analysis, and post-incident corrective actions
• Execute application and infrastructure releases through established deployment pipelines, including promotion through staging and production, validation, rollback, and release-related troubleshooting
• Manage the operational lifecycle of deployed infrastructure, including upgrades, patching, configuration changes, maintenance, and technology refreshes
• Assess and improve service resilience through capacity planning, performance testing, failure-mode analysis, disaster recovery, backup, failover, and recovery testing
• Identify and address reliability risks and operational technical debt using reliability metrics, incident trends, capacity data, and service health indicators
• Automate operational activities using an everything-as-code approach to improve consistency, repeatability, testing, deployment, recovery, and operational efficiency
• Collaborate with platform engineering and application teams to identify operational requirements and continuously improve the reliability and operability of the environment

Location: Remote (United States)

Shift: Night Shift – 11pm to 7am Eastern Standard Time (EST)

What We're Looking For

Required Qualifications:

• Must be a U.S. Citizen with the ability to obtain and maintain the required Public Trust level clearance
• Bachelor's Degree and 8 years of experience, or High School diploma/equivalent and 12 years of experience
• 7+ years hands-on experience in site reliability engineering, DevOps, or production systems engineering
• Hands-on experience operating in AWS Commercial and AWS GovCloud, including OpenShift or comparable Kubernetes-based platforms
• Strong infrastructure-as-code experience with Terraform and Ansible/Ansible Tower
• Experience with CI/CD platforms such as GitLab and Jenkins, including reliability gating and deployment automation
• Proficient in Linux and Windows Server administration
• Experience with enterprise observability tools such as Dynatrace, Datadog, Splunk, and Open Telemetry
• Demonstrated ownership of an SLI/SLO and alerting program, including error budgets, alert rationalization, and noise reduction
• Scripting/automation proficiency in Python, Bash, PowerShell, or Go
• Experience operating in federal or regulated environments (FISMA, FedRAMP, NIST 800-53)

Preferred Qualifications:

• AWS Solutions Architect, AWS DevOps Engineer, or AWS SysOps certification
• Red Hat Certified Specialist in OpenShift or Red Hat Certified System Administrator in OpenShift
• Azure Administrator Associate or GCP Associate Cloud Engineer certification
• Dynatrace Associate or Datadog Log Management Fundamentals certification
• GitLab CI/CD Associate certification or Certified Jenkins Engineer (CJE)
• Terraform Associate certification

How We Work with You

As a specialized recruiting firm, Get A Job.ai partners with organizations to find exceptional talent. When you apply through our platform, a member of our talent team will review your qualifications and conduct an initial screening. If there's a strong match, we will submit your profile to our client for consideration. Please note that all applications must come through Get A Job.ai—direct contact with the client is not part of this process.

Pay

Pay details will be discussed during the screening process and are competitive with market rates for this level of experience and responsibility.

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