Site Reliability Engineer – Evening Shift

Peraton

. Operate and maintain production infrastructure services and applications, ensuring availability, reliability, performance, security, and operational health .

Posted 9/18/2026full-timeRemote • United StatesSeniorLead💰 $104,000 - $166,000 per yearWebsite

Core Competencies

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in site reliability engineering and DevOps practices, with a strong focus on operational health, incident management, and automation. Proficient in AWS environments and infrastructure-as-code methodologies, ensuring high availability and performance of production systems.

Highest-signal resume keywords

Site Reliability EngineeringAWS Commercial and GovCloudInfrastructure-as-Code with TerraformCI/CD with GitLab and JenkinsEnterprise Observability Tools

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Hard Skills

Site Reliability EngineeringAWS CommercialAWS GovCloudInfrastructure-as-CodeTerraformAnsibleCI/CDLinux AdministrationWindows Server AdministrationScripting in Python

Soft Skills

CollaborationProblem-SolvingOwnership

Tools & Technologies

DynatraceDatadogSplunkOpen TelemetryGitLabJenkins

Certifications & Qualifications

AWS Solutions ArchitectAWS DevOps EngineerAWS SysOpsRed Hat Certified Specialist in ROSARed Hat Certified System AdministratorAzure Administrator AssociateGCP Associate Cloud EngineerDynatrace AssociateDatadog Log Management FundamentalsGitLab CI/CD Associate

Industry Keywords

FISMAFedRAMPNIST 800-53Operational HealthIncident Management

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AnsibleAWSAzureCloudGoogle Cloud PlatformJenkinsKubernetesLinuxOpenShiftPythonSplunkTerraformGo

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Operate and maintain production infrastructure services and applications, ensuring availability, reliability, performance, security, and operational health
Monitor services and applications using SLIs, SLOs, dashboards, alerts, and observability tools
Improve detection, diagnosis, and resolution of operational issues
Partner with application teams to define observability requirements and implement metrics, logs, traces, dashboards, and alerts
Manage production incidents and service disruptions, including on-call response, troubleshooting, service restoration, root-cause analysis, and post-incident corrective actions
Execute application and infrastructure releases through deployment pipelines, including staging and production promotion, validation, rollback, and release troubleshooting
Manage the operational lifecycle of deployed infrastructure, including upgrades, patching, configuration changes, maintenance, and technology refreshes
Assess and improve service resilience through capacity planning, performance testing, failure-mode analysis, disaster recovery, backup, failover, and recovery testing
Identify and address reliability risks and operational technical debt using reliability metrics, incident trends, capacity data, and service health indicators
Automate operational activities using an everything-as-code approach
Collaborate with platform engineering and application teams on operational requirements and reusable infrastructure building blocks
Continuously improve the reliability and operability of the environment

Requirements

What you’ll need

Must be a U.S. Citizen
Ability to obtain and maintain the required Public Trust level clearance
Bachelor's Degree and 8 years of experience, or a High School diploma/equivalent and 12 years of experience
7+ years hands-on experience in site reliability engineering, DevOps, or production systems engineering
Hands-on experience operating in AWS Commercial and AWS GovCloud, including OpenShift (ROSA) or comparable Kubernetes-based platforms
Strong infrastructure-as-code experience with Terraform and Ansible/Ansible Tower
Experience with CI/CD platforms GitLab and Jenkins, including reliability gating and deployment automation
Proficient in Linux and Windows Server administration
Experience with enterprise observability tools such as Dynatrace, Datadog, Splunk and Open Telemetry
Demonstrated ownership of an SLI/SLO and alerting program, including error budgets, alert rationalization, and noise reduction
Scripting/automation proficiency in Python, Bash, PowerShell, or Go
Experience operating in federal or regulated environments (FISMA, FedRAMP, NIST 800-53)
Preferred: AWS Solutions Architect, AWS DevOps Engineer, or AWS SysOps certification
Preferred: Red Hat Certified Specialist in ROSA or Red Hat Certified System Administrator in OpenShift
Preferred: Azure Administrator Associate or GCP Associate Cloud Engineer certification
Preferred: Dynatrace Associate or Datadog Log Management Fundamentals certification
Preferred: GitLab CI/CD Associate certification or Certified Jenkins Engineer (CJE)
Preferred: Terraform Associate certification

Benefits

Comp & perks

Overtime eligibility may apply
Shift differential may apply
Discretionary bonus eligibility may apply