Reliability Engineer

. Design, implement, and maintain highly available, fault-tolerant systems in cloud and hybrid environments .

Posted 9/26/2026full-timeHanscom Air Force Base • Massachusetts • United StatesMid-LevelSeniorWebsite

Tools & technologies

AWSAzureCloudDistributed SystemsDNSDockerGoogle Cloud PlatformGrafanaKubernetesLinuxOraclePrometheusPythonTCP/IPTerraformGo

Key responsibilities & impact

Design, implement, and maintain highly available, fault-tolerant systems in cloud and hybrid environments
Define, measure, and report SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets
Identify reliability risks and implement mitigation strategies across the system lifecycle
Conduct capacity planning and performance modeling
Implement and manage monitoring, logging, and tracing solutions
Define actionable alerting thresholds and analyze reliability trends and metrics
Participate in on-call rotations and lead production incident response
Coordinate troubleshooting across development, infrastructure, and security teams
Conduct post-incident reviews and develop corrective and preventive action plans
Track recurring issues and ensure root causes are resolved
Automate operational tasks and develop scripts, tools, and services to improve reliability and reduce MTTR
Participate in architecture and design reviews focused on reliability, resiliency, and recoverability
Validate disaster recovery and business continuity plans; test failover mechanisms
Support chaos engineering, fault injection testing, and resilience validation
Partner with DevOps, Platform, and Security teams
Document reliability standards, runbooks, and operational procedures
Support compliance and audit activities including FedRAMP, FISMA, and internal operational controls

What you’ll need

Bachelors and eight (8) years or more of experience; Masters and six (6) years or more of experience; additional experience may be accepted in lieu of degree
Active Secret clearance at a minimum required to start
US citizenship required
Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, OCI, or GCP), including managed services
Experience with containerized environments (Docker, Kubernetes)
Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation
Experience with SLOs and error budgets
Experience with capacity modeling and performance testing
Strong understanding of distributed systems and high-availability architectures
Strong understanding of Linux/Windows system administration
Strong understanding of networking fundamentals (DNS, TCP/IP, load balancing)
Hands-on experience with monitoring and observability tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/Elastic, Datadog, Azure Monitor)
Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, ARM, CloudFormation)
Hands-on experience with scripting or programming languages (Python, Bash, Go, PowerShell, or similar)
Experience supporting incident management and on-call operations
Preferred: Experience with USAF Cloud One or Platform 1
Preferred: Experience with Zero Trust Architecture
Preferred: Cloud certifications in AWS, Azure, Google, or Oracle clouds

Comp & perks