Title: Senior SRE - Platform - Kubernetes Engineer
Location: Houston, TX/Remote
Duration: Full Time
Client: Confidential
Salary Range: $120k-$130K/year
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Experience required: 10 - 12 years of experience
Interview Mode: Video
Job Description
Must Have Technical/Functional Skills:
10+ years of experience in SRE, DevOps, or infrastructure engineering
Strong experience running Kubernetes in production (EKS, AKS, GKE, or upstream)
Hands-on experience working in FedRAMP High and/or DoD IL5 environments
Solid understanding of cloud infrastructure, Linux systems, and networking fundamentals
Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform preferred)
Familiarity with CI/CD systems (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, ArgoCD)
Proficiency in scripting or programming (Python, Go)
Experience building or operating observability platforms (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, ELK)
Working knowledge of compliance frameworks (e.g., NIST 800-53, STIGs, RMF)
Roles & Responsibilities:
Design, build, and operate production-grade Kubernetes platforms in regulated environments
Improve system reliability through automation, thoughtful design, and continuous iteration
Define and drive SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets to guide reliability decisions
Build and evolve CI/CD pipelines that are secure, scalable, and easy to use
Implement robust observability (metrics, logs, traces) to make systems understandable and actionable
Reduce operational toil by automating repetitive processes and improving workflows
Partner with security and compliance teams to meet FedRAMP High and IL5 requirements without sacrificing developer velocity
Support ATO processes, including documentation, controls implementation, and audit readiness Confidential
Participate in on-call rotations supporting customer requests and paging alerts
Participate in incident response, blameless postmortems, and continuous improvement efforts
Help shape a platform that engineers enjoy using
Nice to Have
Experience with service mesh technologies (Istio, Linkerd)
Familiarity with policy-as-code (OPA/Gatekeeper, Kyverno)
Experience with GitOps workflows
Exposure to multi-cluster or hybrid cloud architectures
Knowledge of FIPS-compliant systems or DoD Cloud SRG
Relevant certifications (CKA, CKS, cloud provider certs, Security+)
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- Dice Id: 91171926
- Position Id: OOJ - 1263-267-1785436990
- Posted 20 hours ago
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