Senior/Staff SRE

Job summary

The Senior Site Reliability Engineer builds and operates the infrastructure platform supporting mission operations, making services safer and easier to deploy, upgrade, and maintain in on-premises environments, including offline or restricted-network sites. The role automates infrastructure and releases, establishes observability and reliability practices, responds to incidents, and creates operational guidance for customer and partner teams. Deployment environments include Kubernetes, virtual machines, and mixed configurations.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience operating production infrastructure or services in SRE, platform engineering, or infrastructure engineering.
• Experience building and maintaining infrastructure as code with Terraform or a comparable tool.
• Practical experience with Kubernetes, virtual-machine platforms, or both.
• Experience designing or operating observability systems for metrics, logs, alerts, and dashboards.
• Ability to design safe release, upgrade, and rollback workflows.
• Strong incident investigation, prioritization, and coordination skills.
• Clear written and verbal communication.
• Ownership-oriented approach to reliability and prevention.

Responsibilities

• Automate deployment and maintenance for on-premises environments.
• Manage reliable releases and upgrades in offline or restricted-network settings.
• Develop deployment patterns for virtual-machine, Kubernetes, and mixed environments.
• Establish observability using metrics, logs, alerts, and dashboards.
• Define service-level objectives and change-safety practices.
• Respond to incidents and turn lessons learned into operational improvements.
• Maintain playbooks, troubleshooting guides, escalation paths, and maintenance workflows.
• Partner with engineering and security teams to identify operational risks.
• Coach teammates on debugging, alert quality, incident follow-through, and documentation.

Skills

Industry

Relocation