Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) – Night Shift

Peraton is a national security company and enterprise IT provider delivering mission-critical solutions and technologies for government and defense customers. The company is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to operate and improve the reliability, availability, security, and performance of production systems across AWS, Azure, GCP, and OpenShift environments during the night shift.

Responsibilities:

• Operate and maintain production infrastructure services and applications, ensuring availability and 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 application observability requirements and implement appropriate metrics, logs, traces, dashboards, and alerts into the organization's observability tooling
• 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 by using reliability metrics, incident trends, capacity data, and service health indicators to prioritize improvements
• 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, provide feedback on reusable infrastructure building blocks, and continuously improve the reliability and operability of the environment

Requirements:

• 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 a 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 (ROSA) or comparable Kubernetes-based platforms
• Strong infrastructure-as-code experience with Terraform and Ansible/Ansible Tower
• Experience with CI/CD platforms 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)
• AWS Solutions Architect, AWS DevOps Engineer, or AWS SysOps certification
• Red Hat Certified Specialist in ROSA, Red Hat Certified System Administrator in OpenShift
• Azure Administrator Associate, GCP Associate Cloud Engineer certification
• Dynatrace Associate, Datadog Log Management Fundamentals certification
• GitLab CI/CD Associate certification, Certified Jenkins Engineer (CJE)
• Terraform Associate certification