Site Reliability Engineer

General Dynamics Mission Systems is a leader in high technology solutions for defense and scientific arenas. They are seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to define service level objectives, build monitoring infrastructure, and manage incident response for AI services.

Responsibilities:

• Define service level objectives for every AI service that goes to production
• Establish error budgets and use them to drive engineering decisions — not just measure uptime
• Build and maintain monitoring, logging, and alerting infrastructure for AI services
• Establish incident management procedures, lead post-incident reviews, and drive corrective actions
• Validate that it meets reliability, security, and operational standards
• Track resource consumption, forecast capacity needs, and monitor costs
• Identify and automate repetitive operational tasks

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field, plus 8 years of experience; or Master's degree plus 6 years of experience
• Production SRE or DevOps experience — you have owned the reliability of systems that real users depended on, not just built CI/CD pipelines
• Hands-on experience with monitoring and observability tools — Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, ELK, CloudWatch, or similar. You have built dashboards and alerts that caught real problems
• Strong scripting and automation skills — Python, Bash, infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar)
• Experience with containerized environments — Docker, Kubernetes, container orchestration at scale
• Experience defining and managing SLOs, error budgets, and incident response procedures in production
• U.S. citizenship required. Department of Defense Secret security clearance is required at time of hire
• Experience with AI/ML production systems — model serving, inference monitoring, token cost tracking, or similar
• Multi-cloud experience (AWS, Azure, GCP) including cloud-native monitoring and logging services
• Experience building operational readiness review processes or production launch checklists
• Familiarity with Google SRE principles — you have read the book and applied the concepts, not just referenced them in interviews
• Experience in environments where reliability has compliance or safety implications — defense, healthcare, finance, or critical infrastructure