Site Reliability Engineer

A startup based in Arlington VA is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to support the deployment, performance, and resilience of a cutting-edge platform within a secure, high-stakes environment. This role is ideal for someone who thrives in operationally sensitive environments, is deeply technical, and wants to make a real-world impact supporting national security missions.

What You'll Do:

• Maintain and scale production infrastructure within a secure on-prem environment
• Automate deployments, monitoring, and maintenance to support high availability and performance
• Debug complex infrastructure and application issues under tight operational constraints
• Collaborate with software engineers to improve reliability, observability, and platform performance
• Monitor system health, develop runbooks, and ensure disaster recovery and backup processes are in place
• Work hands-on with classified systems, ensuring compliance with all security requirements

Who You Are:

• Experienced SRE, DevOps Engineer, or Infrastructure Engineer with hands-on systems and operations experience
• Strong background with Linux systems, containers (Docker, Kubernetes), and scripting (Python, Bash, etc.)
• Familiarity with on-prem deployments and air-gapped environments
• Skilled in monitoring, logging, and alerting tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, etc.)
• Active TS/SCI clearance
• Comfortable working full-time, on-site at Fort Meade

Preferred Qualifications:

• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Ansible), and security hardening
• Understanding of network protocols and secure system architecture

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