Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Hampton, VA, US • Posted 23 hours ago • Updated 22 hours ago
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A Senior Site Reliability Engineer is responsible for maintaining the reliability, resilience, and recoverability of mission-critical cloud-based platforms. This role involves leading infrastructure disaster recovery drills, validating platform rebuild procedures, and automating deployment workflows. The engineer collaborates across teams to enhance complex environments, support modernization efforts, and ensure operational continuity.

Responsibilities

  • Support full lifecycle platform portability and disaster recovery (DR) drill execution, including validation of platform rebuild procedures and DR playbooks
  • Execute infrastructure-level drill activities to ensure the platform can be fully rebuilt within the 48-hour recovery target
  • Verify end-to-end data completeness, integrity, and accuracy during drill exercises, documenting results and remediation recommendations
  • Identify exit readiness gaps across infrastructure, deployment automation, monitoring, and data recovery processes, and drive corrective actions
  • Design, implement, and support automated Infrastructure as Code (IaC) workflows utilizing Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, and CI/CD pipelines
  • Manage and optimize Kubernetes clusters and containerized workloads, including provisioning, scaling, and reliability enhancements
  • Build and maintain observability solutions using CloudWatch, Datadog, and other monitoring tools for service reliability and proactive incident response
  • Develop automation, tooling, and scripts using Python or Java to reduce manual processes and improve operational repeatability
  • Collaborate with platform engineering, security, applications, and data teams to ensure secure, compliant, and consistent platform operations
  • Participate in on-call rotations, root cause analysis, and incident response activities to strengthen system resilience and operational excellence

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree and 8–10 years of relevant SRE, DevOps, cloud engineering, or infrastructure engineering experience; Master’s degree with 6–8 years; or equivalent practical experience
  • Expert knowledge of AWS services across compute, networking, storage, IAM, and serverless components
  • Strong experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation) and automation principles
  • Experience building CI/CD deployment pipelines and implementing progressive delivery mechanisms using GitHub Actions or similar tools
  • Deep understanding of Kubernetes administration, container orchestration, and Docker deployments
  • Proven experience validating disaster recovery processes, performing system rebuilds, and conducting data integrity checks
  • Experience with monitoring tools like CloudWatch, Datadog, or comparable observability solutions
  • Proficiency with programming or scripting languages such as Python, Java, C#, or Go
  • Experience debugging complex failure modes, network issues, backpressure, and consistency challenges
  • Strong analytical, documentation, and communication skills within technical teams
  • Ability to work in a fast-paced environment supporting mission-critical systems

Preferred Qualifications

  • AWS DevSecOps Engineer certification (preferred)
  • Additional AWS certifications (Solutions Architect, SysOps, Developer) and Kubernetes certifications (CKA, CKAD)
  • Familiarity with Zero Trust security models and cloud security best practices
  • Experience with GitLab, Jenkins, or similar CI/CD platforms
  • Experience working in highly regulated environments, such as healthcare, finance, DHS, DoD, or CMS
  • Background supporting federal, defense, or large enterprise programs involving legacy-to-cloud modernization
  • Prior involvement in large-scale disaster recovery drills, continuity of operations (COOP), or portability/executable readiness assessments

Publishing Pay Range: $68.00- $72.00 Hourly

This position is based in office and requires employee to work on-site.

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  • Dice Id: 10112156
  • Position Id: 113766
  • Posted 23 hours ago

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About GDH

GDH is a technology workforce solutions provider committed to always giving and delivering more. Better talent. More client and consultant support. Greater service. World-class outcomes. Providing technology staffing, project solutions, and recruitment process outsourcing (RPO), we will be able to deepen our understanding of your business challenges, stay up to date with industry trends, and enhance our ability to create custom solutions to help achieve your business outcomes. We have established ourselves as a trusted partner to countless businesses operating in the communications sector. Our primary goal is to source and recruit the most talented professionals, assemble teams of skilled specialists, create innovative recruitment and professional services strategies that drive growth and foster innovation.

GDH Benefits

GDH offers a range of employee benefits that are designed to promote well-being and help maintain a healthy work-life balance. These comprehensive benefits cover various aspects of an employee's life and aim to enhance their overall experience with the company. Our health benefits include three medical insurance options with access to KISx Card, Zero Card, and HealthJoy concierge services. Other plan offerings include dental, vision, life, disability, supplemental insurance, and pet insurance plans. Enjoy additional perks like holiday pay, 401(k) plan, direct deposit, an employee referral program, work-life balance benefits, a Wellbeats membership, a discounted gym membership program, and more!  For more detailed information on benefits, please go to GDH’s website under the tab for candidates.

GDH provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for
employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, veteran's status or any other category protected by law. In addition to federal law requirements, GDH Consulting, Inc. complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities and/or employees. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, benefits and training. Applicants with disabilities that require an accommodation or assistance in applying and/or for interviewing, please contact our HR Department.

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