Staff Site Reliability Engineer, Government

About This Opportunity

We are representing a confidential cybersecurity organization seeking a Staff Site Reliability Engineer to join their Government SRE team. This role sits at the critical intersection of federal compliance requirements and modern cloud infrastructure, where you'll own the technical reliability of government environments while ensuring seamless, compliant deployments.

Due to federal contract requirements, U.S. Citizenship and a work location in the United States is required. Candidates may be subject to customer or third-party background checks up to and including Secret Clearance.

Responsibilities

• Drive continuous software delivery, resolve production incidents, conduct post-mortems, and create automation strategies for deployment, self-testing, and alerting
• Lead incident management for production issues, ensuring rapid recovery, root cause analysis, and preventative follow-up actions
• Improve and optimize observability strategy by collaborating with application engineering teams to design monitoring solutions that enhance alerting and reduce noise
• Define, implement, and monitor SLOs, SLIs, and SLAs in collaboration with product and engineering teams
• Design, develop, and maintain software solutions addressing operational, compliance, and pipeline challenges
• Own and coordinate all government environment releases, driving process improvements to enhance pipeline efficiency, reliability, and visibility
• Understand product architecture and service dependencies to manage risk and implement effective testing strategies
• Partner cross-functionally with engineering, product, SecOps, compliance, and leadership teams to align priorities and resolve challenges
• Ensure all infrastructure and deployments meet FedRAMP, government regulations, and industry standards while maintaining required release documentation and risk assessments

What We're Looking For

• 8+ years of experience in SRE, DevOps, or Infrastructure Engineering for SaaS products, with 4+ years running operations at large scale
• 2+ years of production experience with container orchestration systems (Kubernetes preferred) and Continuous Delivery
• Strong understanding of compliance frameworks relevant to government deployments: FedRAMP, DoD, NIST 800-53, NIST 800-137
• Multi-cloud experience in AWS/GCP (AWS expertise preferred)
• Demonstrated experience with at least one main programming language (Python, Go, Ruby, etc.) and proficiency in bash scripting
• Familiarity with GitOps frameworks, IaC tooling (Terraform or Pulumi), and deployment strategies (blue-green, rolling deploys, canary deploys)
• Experience with industry-standard observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, OpenTelemetry, etc.) and incident management processes
• Proven background implementing and supporting FedRAMP, security, risk management, and compliance processes for software releases
• Experience working directly with government agencies or in highly regulated industries
• Familiarity with testing strategies and automation in large-scale environments

How We Work With You

Candidates apply directly through Get A Job.ai. Our recruiting team will screen your application and coordinate interviews with our client. We manage the entire submission and interview process on your behalf. Please do not contact the client directly—all communication will flow through our talent team to ensure a smooth, professional experience.

Pay

Base salary range for this role is $156,000–$200,000 USD, depending on location and experience. Final compensation will be discussed during the recruiting process.

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