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Observability - Site Reliability Engineer
Peraton · Chantilly, VA, United States
Chantilly, VA, United StatesExp: 5-8 yrs112,000-179,000 USD/yearlyOnsite
Remuneration
Potential overtime, shift differential, and discretionary bonus; benefits include medical, dental, vision, life insurance, health savings account, short- and long-term disability, EAP, parental leave, 401(k), paid time off, and company-paid holidays.
Location
Chantilly, VA, United States
Visa sponsorship
Not specified
Job summary
Designs, implements, and operates telemetry and reliability capabilities for enterprise infrastructure, platforms, applications, and workloads. The role builds centralized metrics, logs, traces, dashboards, and alerts using OpenTelemetry or equivalent standards, defines service-level objectives, analyzes performance, and automates monitoring and remediation. It also supports production incident response, root-cause analysis, and Tier 3/4 on-call escalations across cloud and Kubernetes environments.
Benefits
Medical insuranceDental insuranceVision insuranceLife insuranceHealth savings accountShort- and long-term disabilityEmployee assistance programParental leave401(k)Paid time offCompany-paid holidays
Qualifications
- Active TS/SCI clearance with CI Polygraph.
- Approximately 5–8 years of experience in observability, site reliability engineering, operations, platform engineering, cloud engineering, or a related discipline.
- Five years of experience with a bachelor's degree, or four additional years of experience in lieu of a degree.
- Hands-on experience with metrics, logging, tracing, monitoring, and alerting.
- Experience with Kubernetes and cloud environments.
- Experience operating production services and responding to technical incidents.
- Experience with scripting, automation, or infrastructure-as-code practices.
- Strong troubleshooting, systems analysis, performance-analysis, problem-solving, and communication skills.
- Experience with one or more of OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch, OpenSearch, distributed tracing, application performance monitoring, SLO/SLA practices, error budgets, automated incident response, or observability in secure or regulated environments is desired.
Responsibilities
- Implement standardized collection of metrics, logs, and distributed traces.
- Establish OpenTelemetry instrumentation and telemetry collection patterns.
- Integrate cloud, Kubernetes, platform, application, and infrastructure telemetry into centralized observability services.
- Maintain telemetry pipelines, retention, routing, and data-quality controls.
- Develop dashboards, alerts, service-health views, and operational metrics.
- Define and monitor service-level objectives, availability, latency, error rates, saturation, and capacity.
- Analyze performance, capacity, utilization, and operational trends to identify reliability issues and corrective actions.
- Apply site reliability engineering practices to improve availability, performance, scalability, and resilience.
- Diagnose incidents, troubleshoot cross-service issues, and perform root-cause analysis.
- Automate monitoring, alerting, reporting, and remediation activities.
- Partner with operations and engineering teams to improve incident response and prevent recurring issues.
- Provide Tier 3/4 escalation and on-call support.
- Maintain operational procedures, troubleshooting documentation, and knowledge articles.
Skills
CloudWatchGrafanaKubernetesOpenSearchOpenTelemetryPrometheusCloud Monitoring
Degrees
Bachelor's degree (BS/BA)
Work schedule
On-call support
Industry
National securityGovernment
Security clearance
Active TS/SCI clearance with CI Polygraph
Relocation
No