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Site Reliability Engineer System Administrator Jobs

Responsibilities Peraton is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to join a team respobsible ... Red Hat Certified Specialist in ROSA, Red Hat Certified System Administrator in OpenShift * Azure ...

Site Reliability Engineer

Chicago, IL · On-site

$58.75 - $78/hr

Distributed Systems Theory: A rigorous understanding of non-linear system behaviors, distributed ... Experience: * 10+ years in SRE, Systems Engineering, or Software Engineering roles within high ...

Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

Plano, TX · On-site

$54.50 - $72.50/hr

Monitor system health, performance, and availability using SRE best practices * Implement automation to reduce manual operational work * Troubleshoot production incidents and perform root cause ...

$42 - $55.75/hr

Design, implement, and administer enterprise backup and recovery solutions across on-premises ... A strong understanding of distributed systems and high availability architectures. Technical Skills

Site Reliability Engineer

Chicago, IL · On-site

$58.75 - $78/hr

Design, implement, and administer enterprise backup and recovery solutions across on-premises ... A strong understanding of distributed systems and high availability architectures. Technical Skills

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Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) - Night Shift

Remote

Peraton
IT Services • 10K+ employees

$104K - $166K/yr

Full-time

Posted 11 days ago


Peraton rating

8.3

Company rating: 8.3 out of 10

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Job description

Responsibilities
Peraton is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to join a team respobsible for the operational reliability of production systems running in AWS Commercial and AWS GovCloud environments. The ideal candidate has working knowledge of deploying and managing system components in Azure and GCP. The primary production workload runs on Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS (ROSA)
The SRE partners closely with platform engineers, the security team, and application developers to ensure the infrastructure services are reliable, available, and deployed in a way that meets both developer and security requirements.
Work Location: Remote
Shift Schedule: This is a Night Shift position with working hours from 11pm - 7am Eastern Standard Time (EST)
What you will do:
  • 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.

Qualifications
Basic Qualifications:
  • 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).

Preferred Qualifications:
  • 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

Peraton Overview
Peraton is a next-generation national security company that drives missions of consequence spanning the globe and extending to the farthest reaches of the galaxy. As the world's leading mission capability integrator and transformative enterprise IT provider, we deliver trusted, highly differentiated solutions and technologies to protect our nation and allies. Peraton operates at the critical nexus between traditional and nontraditional threats across all domains: land, sea, space, air, and cyberspace. The company serves as a valued partner to essential government agencies and supports every branch of the U.S. armed forces. Each day, our employees do the can't be done by solving the most daunting challenges facing our customers. Visit peraton.com to learn how we're keeping people around the world safe and secure.
Target Salary Range
$104,000 - $166,000. This represents the typical salary range for this position. Salary is determined by various factors, including but not limited to, the scope and responsibilities of the position, the individual's experience, education, knowledge, skills, and competencies, as well as geographic location and business and contract considerations. Depending on the position, employees may be eligible for overtime, shift differential, and a discretionary bonus in addition to base pay.
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EEO: Equal opportunity employer, including disability and protected veterans, or other characteristics protected by law.

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At Peraton, we re at the forefront of delivering the next big thing every day. We re the partner of choice to help solve some of the world s most daunting challenges, delivering bold, new solutions to keep people around the world safer and more secure.

Industry

It services

Company size

10,000+ Employees

Headquarters location

Herndon, VA, US

Year founded

2017