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Knack Solutions

Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

Reston, VA

$59.25 - $78.75/hr

Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)  Work Authorization: All Work Authorizations Location: Reston, VA Contract: 24 months Description: Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) roles and responsibilities The SR ...

Nastech Global

Site Reliability Engineer

Chantilly, VA · On-site

$58.25 - $77.50/hr

Site Reliability Engineer Location: 5 days per week onsite in Chantilly, VA Clearance Required: TS/SCI with CI Poly required Direct Hire Position Top Skills Senior/Lead-level Site Reliability ...

NasTech Global, Inc.

Site Reliability Engineer

Chantilly, VA · On-site

$58.25 - $77.50/hr

Site Reliability Engineer Location: 5 days per week onsite in Chantilly, VA Clearance Required: TS/SCI with CI Poly required Direct Hire Position Top Skills Senior/Lead-level Site Reliability ...

MM International

Site Reliability Engineer

Richmond, VA · On-site

$56.50 - $75/hr

Site Reliability Engineer One and Done Virtual Interview Needs to be onsite from day 1 in Richmond Virginia Only candidates that can convert in 12 months with no sponsorship Must haves: Log Data The ...

ECS

Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Fairfax, VA · On-site

$118K - $177K/yr

Everforth ECS is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to work remotely . Everforth ECS is seeking talented professionals to join our successful and growing team in building the next-generation ...

Beyond SOF

Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

Vienna, VA · On-site

$57.25 - $76/hr

Up to 2 years in duration MUST HAVES: • Minimum of 8 years of experience as a Site Reliability Engineerwith a strong understanding of SRE principles for highly scalable and reliable systems • ...

Spatial Front, Inc

SRE Engineer

Arlington, VA · On-site

$65.75 - $87.25/hr

The SRE Engineer will improve the reliability, availability, performance, and operational resilience of mission-critical systems for a federal enterprise program. Responsibilities : • Define ...

Capitolis

Site Reliability Engineer IV

Sterling, VA · On-site

$120 - $160/hr

Position: Site Reliability Engineer IV Experience: 9-12 Years Location: Bangalore (Ecospace) Candescent Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) mission is to proactively ensure the reliability ...

Volitiion IIT

Site Reliability Engineer - Hybrid

Reston, VA · On-site

$59.25 - $78.75/hr

Site Reliability Engineer V Location: Reston, VA (Hybrid onsite - 3 days a week from day 1) ... Experience with AI/ML libraries (e.g., NLTK, Transformers, Spacy, SciPy), Amazon SageMaker, and ...

C-Serv

Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Reston, VA · On-site

$117 - $145/hr

Across multi-cluster Amazon EKS and AWS Commercial/GovCloud infrastructure. * Advanced incident ... WHAT WE NEED FROM YOU * 5-8+ years in SRE, cloud DevOps, or infrastructure architecture. * Strong ...

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As of Sep 2, 2026, the average hourly pay for amazon sre in Virginia is $63.20, according to ZipRecruiter salary data. Most workers in this role earn between $54.33 and $72.21 per hour, depending on experience, location, and employer.

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An Amazon Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) is responsible for ensuring the reliability, scalability, and performance of Amazon's infrastructure and services. They bridge the gap between development and operations, applying software engineering principles to system administration tasks. SREs focus on automation, monitoring, and incident response to minimize downtime and improve efficiency. Their goal is to create highly available and resilient systems while balancing innovation and system stability.

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As an Amazon SRE, your daily responsibilities include monitoring system performance, proactively identifying and resolving reliability issues, automating repetitive tasks, and participating in on-call rotations to address production incidents. You will also work on infrastructure improvements, conduct root cause analyses after outages, and help implement robust deployment pipelines. Collaboration is frequent, as SREs partner closely with software engineers, product managers, and operations staff to ensure applications run smoothly and reliably. This teamwork fosters a culture of continuous improvement, making Amazon's large-scale services resilient and highly available.

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To thrive as an Amazon SRE (Site Reliability Engineer), you need a strong background in computer science, systems engineering, and automation, typically demonstrated through a relevant degree or equivalent experience. Familiarity with cloud services (especially AWS), containerization tools (like Docker or Kubernetes), monitoring solutions, and infrastructure-as-code platforms, along with certifications (such as AWS Certified DevOps Engineer), is highly valued. Problem-solving mindset, effective communication, and the ability to collaborate across multidisciplinary teams are essential soft skills. These competencies help maintain high system reliability, enable efficient incident response, and support the rapid innovation environment at Amazon.

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Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

Knack Solutions

Reston, VA

$59.25 - $78.75/hr

Full-time

Re-posted 29 days ago

Job description

***W2 only***

Position: Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

Work Authorization: All Work Authorizations

Location: Reston, VA

Contract: 24 months

Description: Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) roles and responsibilities

The SRE role bridges the Development Engineer role and the Production Engineer role with a mixture of development, test, deploy, and support skills that contribute to application reliability and resiliency. The SRE approaches problems as an Engineer and looks to automate processes with code or tools to detect and prevent identified software reliability issues. The SRE role splits time between runtime support issues (toil) and development automation work (dev). The skills are organized by Development, Support, and Common areas.

Software Development and Configuration

The following SRE skills are used to improve reliability of an application/service while it is in development:

Required Skills:

  • 8-10 years overall experience
  • Hands-On in at least one language - Java (must), Python (3-4 yrs) -not coding just understanding of
  • Hands-On experience with automated testing tools (JMeter, Junit, Mockito, Postman)
  • Hands-On experience with a source code management system like GIT or SVN including pull, push, branch, commit and merge functions
  • Hands-On experience creating, configuring and maintaining cloud-based applications and infrastructure for the rapid development and monitoring of applications and services:
  • AWS, EC2, Fargate, CloudFormation, RDS, ElasticCache, S3
  • Experience with Cloud Migrations with reliability and availability as core focus
  • Experience in implementing the SRE at the team/enterprise level with hands-on implementation of SRE practices and improving the metrics
  • Hands-On experience with monitoring tools (Splunk, Dynatrace) and dashboard developmentincluding development and customization of dashboards
  • Hands-On experience with the build, deploy, and packaging process and best practices. Familiar using DevOps automation tools (UCD, Jenkins, Maven, SonarQube, Chef, Ansible, Puppet)
  • Scripting skills for automation (Linux bash and Windows)

General Required Skills:

  • Ability to diagnose and optimize software code for reliability and resiliency
  • Knowledge of the incident management process and reporting tools (ServiceNow, Jira Service Desk)
  • Good communication and documentation skills. An SRE must document their work, collect and document tribal knowledge (the good stuff in peoples head), and make it accessible to others.
  • Experience triaging incidents and conducting RCAs (Root Cause Analysis)
  • Nice to have skills:
  • Ability to diagnose technical problems, isolate and debug issues, formulate creative solutions, analyze alternative approaches, and implement a timely solution.
  • Experience providing alternatives and estimates for implementing a fix or automation to improve reliability.
  • Ability to juggle several different tasks at a time, and able to frequently adjust for new tasks or higher priority tasks.
  • Experience with a modern RDBMS or NoSQL, like Postgres, MySQL, DB2, Oracle, MongoDB, and Cloudant

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