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Knack Solutions

Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

Reston, VA · On-site

$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

TS/SCI with CI Poly required Direct Hire Position Top Skills Senior/Lead-level Site Reliability Engineering / Production Reliability experience Strong, hands-on ELK / Elastic Stack experience:

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NasTech Global, Inc.

Site Reliability Engineer

Chantilly, VA · On-site

$58.25 - $77.50/hr

TS/SCI with CI Poly required Direct Hire Position Top Skills Senior/Lead-level Site Reliability Engineering / Production Reliability experience Strong, hands-on ELK / Elastic Stack experience:

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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 ...

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 ...

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

SRE Engineer

Arlington, VA · On-site

$65.75 - $87.25/hr

The SRE Engineer will support the Infrastructure, Production, and Compliance Support (IPCS) team within the enabling rail of a large-scale federal enterprise program. This role is responsible for ...

Spatial Front

SRE Engineer

Arlington, VA · On-site

$65.75 - $87.25/hr

The SRE Engineer will support the Infrastructure, Production, and Compliance Support (IPCS) team within the enabling rail of a large-scale federal enterprise program. This role is responsible for ...

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

Title: Site Reliability Engineer V Location: Reston, VA (Hybrid onsite - 3 days a week from day 1) Assignment duration: 24 months with possibility of extension Interview process: 2 rounds. First ...

Omni Inclusive

Site Reliability Engineer Lead

Fairfax, VA · On-site

$58.75 - $78/hr

Job Summary The Support Lead (SRE) is responsible for overseeing the support operations and site reliability engineering tasks, ensuring the effective functioning of systems and applications. The ...

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Omni Inclusive

Site Reliability Engineer Lead

Fairfax, VA · On-site

$58.75 - $78/hr

Job Summary The Support Lead (SRE) is responsible for overseeing the support operations and site reliability engineering tasks, ensuring the effective functioning of systems and applications. The ...

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What is an SRE director?

SRE Directors are senior leaders responsible for overseeing Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) teams within an organization. They set strategic direction, manage large-scale reliability initiatives, and ensure that systems are highly available, scalable, and efficient. SRE Directors collaborate closely with engineering, product, and operations teams to define service level objectives, incident management processes, and reliability best practices. Their role is pivotal in balancing the needs of innovation, reliability, and operational excellence across the company.

How does an SRE director typically collaborate with other engineering and business leaders within an organization?

As an SRE Director, you will regularly interact with engineering, product, and business leadership to ensure system reliability aligns with organizational goals. Collaboration often involves setting reliability standards, negotiating service-level objectives, and prioritizing initiatives that balance feature delivery with operational stability. You'll also oversee cross-functional incident response and postmortems, championing a culture of continuous improvement. Effective communication and stakeholder management are essential to align technical efforts with business needs.

What are the key skills and qualifications needed to thrive as an SRE director, and why are they important?

To thrive as an SRE Director, you need deep expertise in site reliability engineering, infrastructure management, and a solid background in computer science or a related field, often supported by relevant leadership experience. Familiarity with cloud platforms (like AWS, GCP, or Azure), automation tools, monitoring systems, and certifications such as Google Professional SRE or AWS Certified DevOps Engineer is common. Outstanding communication, strategic thinking, and team leadership are crucial soft skills that drive organizational reliability and performance. These abilities are essential to ensure system uptime, scalable operations, and to foster a culture of reliability and continuous improvement across engineering teams.

Is SRE a good career path?

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) is a growing field that combines software engineering and systems administration to ensure the reliability and scalability of services. It typically requires skills in coding, automation, and monitoring tools, and offers strong job growth and competitive salaries. Many organizations value SRE roles for their focus on system stability and incident response.

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Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

Reston, VA • On-site

Knack Solutions
Software Development • 11 - 50 employees
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$59.25 - $78.75/hr

Full-time

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Job description

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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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