Role: Senior Site Reliability Engineer – Kubernetes Platform
Location: San Jose, CA (Remote)
Employment Type: Full-Time
Visa Type: U.S. Citizen (Must be eligible to obtain U.S. Security Clearance)
✅ Must-Have Qualifications:
✔ 10+ years of hands-on experience in Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), DevOps, or Infrastructure Engineering
✔ Strong production experience managing Kubernetes platforms (EKS, AKS, GKE, or upstream Kubernetes)
✔ Hands-on experience supporting FedRAMP High and/or DoD IL5 regulated environments
✔ Strong knowledge of cloud infrastructure, Linux administration, and networking fundamentals
✔ Expertise in Infrastructure as Code (Terraform preferred)
✔ Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, or ArgoCD
✔ Proficiency in Python and/or Go for scripting, automation, and platform engineering
✔ Experience implementing and managing observability platforms using Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, and ELK Stack
✔ Strong understanding of compliance frameworks including NIST 800-53, STIGs, RMF, and security best practices
✔ Experience designing, building, and operating highly available Kubernetes platforms in production
✔ Experience defining and managing SLOs, SLIs, and Error Budgets to improve platform reliability
✔ Ability to automate operational processes and reduce manual toil through infrastructure automation
✔ Experience implementing secure, scalable, and developer-friendly CI/CD and GitOps workflows
✔ Experience supporting ATO processes, audit readiness, compliance documentation, and security controls
✔ Strong experience with incident response, root cause analysis, blameless postmortems, and on-call support
✔ Strong communication, troubleshooting, and cross-functional collaboration skills
✔ Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or a related technical field (preferred)
⭐ Nice-to-Have Skills:
✔ Service Mesh technologies (Istio, Linkerd)
✔ Policy-as-Code tools (OPA/Gatekeeper, Kyverno)
✔ GitOps implementation experience
✔ Multi-cluster Kubernetes or Hybrid Cloud architecture experience
✔ Knowledge of FIPS-compliant systems or DoD Cloud SRG
✔ Relevant certifications such as CKA, CKS, Cloud Certifications, or CompTIA Security+