Job Description
Essential Duties- Define, implement, and monitor SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, and other reliability metrics
- Design and improve observability — metrics, logging, tracing, dashboards, monitoring, and alerting
- Build and maintain automated CI/CD pipelines for large enterprise environments
- Implement DevSecOps practices across the build, test, security-scan, release, and deploy lifecycle
- Develop, deploy, and maintain containerized applications using enterprise container platforms
- Automate recurring operational work via scripting, infrastructure-as-code, and cloud-native tooling
- Participate in incident response, root cause analysis, and post-incident reviews
- Identify reliability and performance risks and implement corrective actions
- Support disaster recovery planning, testing, and implementation
- Troubleshoot application, infrastructure, deployment, and integration issues across cloud and hybrid environments
- Collaborate with engineering, architecture, security, and operations teams on reliable, secure solutions
- Provide technical guidance and operational support to multiple engineering teams
- Evaluate processes and identify opportunities to improve automation, reliability, and deployment efficiency
- Participate in after-hours and on-call activities as required by the program
Minimum QualificationsEducation & experience (one of the following):
- Bachelor's in a related field + 4 years relevant experience and an Associate/Professional-level cloud certification (AWS or Azure)
Required experience (4+ years in SRE, DevOps, DevSecOps, cloud, software, or systems engineering), including:
- Supporting production applications in public or hybrid cloud environments
- CI/CD pipelines, automated builds, testing, release management, and deployment — using GitLab CI/CD or a comparable enterprise platform
- Git or comparable version control
- Building and maintaining containerized applications with Docker and Kubernetes, OpenShift, or comparable
- Monitoring, logging, alerting, and metrics/observability tooling
- Production incident response, troubleshooting, and root cause analysis
- Scripting/automation (Python, Bash, PowerShell, or comparable)
- Infrastructure-as-code and configuration management (Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible, or comparable)
Nice-to-Have- Active Public Trust or clearance (USDA preferred)
- Experience with large enterprise environments (hundreds of applications, multiple teams)
- AWS GovCloud, Azure Government, or other government cloud
- Systems subject to FISMA, FedRAMP, or NIST
- Production Kubernetes administration and orchestration
- Observability platforms and distributed tracing (CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, OpenSearch, Elasticsearch, Splunk, OpenTelemetry)
- Disaster recovery, performance engineering, resilience, and operational readiness
- Security/compliance automation within CI/CD pipelines
- Multi-cloud or hybrid-cloud migrations, modernization, and operational transitions
- Direct experience with government customers and program leadership
Preferred Certifications- AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate or Professional
- Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
- FinOps, security, or automation certifications relevant to the role
Skills
Amazon Web Services (AWS)unmatched
Ansibleunmatched
Automationunmatched
Bash Scriptingunmatched
Budgetingunmatched
Cloud Computingunmatched
Configuration Managementunmatched
Continuous Deployment/Deliveryunmatched
Continuous Integrationunmatched
Corrective Actionunmatched
DevOpsunmatched
Disaster Recoveryunmatched
Dockerunmatched
Elasticsearchunmatched
FISMA - Federal Information Security Management Actunmatched
Gitunmatched
Governmentunmatched
Hybrid Cloudunmatched
Identify Issuesunmatched
Improvement Metricsunmatched
Incident Managementunmatched
Incident Responseunmatched
Leadershipunmatched
Machine Toolunmatched
Metricsunmatched
Microsoft Windows Azureunmatched
On Callunmatched
Operational Supportunmatched
Performance Engineeringunmatched
Production Supportunmatched
Public Cloudunmatched
Python Programming/Scripting Languageunmatched
Release Management/Engineeringunmatched
Reliability Engineeringunmatched
Reporting Dashboardsunmatched
Root Cause Analysisunmatched
Scripting (Scripting Languages)unmatched
Security Architectureunmatched
Software Administrationunmatched
Source Code/Configuration Management (SCM)unmatched
Splunkunmatched
Technical Leadershipunmatched
Technical Supportunmatched
Test Automationunmatched
Testingunmatched
U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)unmatched
United States Department of Agriculture (USDA)unmatched
Windows PowerShellunmatched
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