SRE Platform Engineer

Job Title:

SRE Platform Engineer

Job Category:
Information Technology

Time Type:
Full time

Minimum Clearance Required to Start:
None

Employee Type:
Regular

Percentage of

Travel Required:

None

Type of Travel:
None

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CACI is seeking a seasoned Site Reliability (SRE) Platform Engineer to support the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Office of the Inspector General (OIG). This role offers a unique opportunity to ensure the reliability, performance, and availability of cutting-edge AI and data analytics platforms that strengthen national security oversight through investigative, audit, and inspection operations.

As an SRE Platform Engineer, you will be the operational guardian of mission-critical systems including OIGChat, AI applications, and enterprise data platforms to ensure availability, performance, service health, and adherence to service level objectives (SLOs). You will monitor production environments, implement comprehensive alerting and observability, troubleshoot complex incidents, optimize performance and costs, and ensure high availability through proactive capacity planning and reliability engineering.

From analyzing performance metrics to identify bottlenecks to supporting disaster recovery and operational readiness, you will apply site reliability engineering principles to maintain service excellence. Working within secure Azure Government environments, you will build operational resilience for a transformational program of national importance. Join us to make a meaningful impact by ensuring mission-critical AI and data capabilities are always available, performant, and reliable.

• Monitor, maintain, and support production and non-production environments for OIGChat, AI applications, and enterprise data platforms to ensure availability, performance, service health, and adherence to service level objectives (SLOs)
• Implement comprehensive observability including alerting, dashboards, health checks, synthetic monitoring, and log analysis using Azure Monitor, Application Insights, Log Analytics, or equivalent tools to enable proactive incident detection
• Lead incident response and troubleshooting efforts including root cause analysis, defect resolution, dependency updates, integration validation, and coordination of emergency changes to restore service rapidly
• Analyze performance and usage metrics across applications, APIs, AI model endpoints, data pipelines, and infrastructure to identify and remediate bottlenecks, latency issues, resource constraints, and efficiency opportunities
• Support capacity planning, resource sizing, autoscaling configuration, and cost optimization for compute, storage, and AI model consumption to balance performance requirements with fiscal responsibility
• Implement and maintain backup/restore processes, disaster recovery procedures, high availability architectures, and business continuity capabilities to ensure data protection and operational resilience
• Monitor data platform availability including Azure Databricks clusters, data pipelines, storage services, and analytical workloads with alerting for pipeline failures, job errors, and performance degradation
• Support deployment and operational readiness for pilot applications and new capabilities including pre-production validation, performance testing, runbook development, and go-live coordination
• Provide surge support for complex technical issues, large-scale data collection analysis, analytical environment optimization, and specialized troubleshooting requiring deep platform knowledge
• Develop and maintain operational documentation including runbooks, troubleshooting guides, architecture diagrams, incident post-mortems, and knowledge transfer materials to support sustainable…