Site Reliability Engineer; Secret Clearance
Listed on 2026-05-16
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IT/Tech
Systems Engineer, SRE/Site Reliability, Cloud Computing: Infrastructure & Operations, IT Support
Senior Site Reliability Engineer and Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)
2 roles
Type:
Full-Time
Location:
Huntsville, AL or Dayton, OH
Start Date:
On or after June 5th, 2026
Senior SRE roles own the reliability of systems they don't write. They bring the experience to spend most of their time preventing fires rather than fighting them. They remain in the on-call rotation and are effective incident responders, but their primary contribution is the foundational work that raises the reliability floor for everyone. Working primarily with:
Kubernetes infrastructure, Git Ops patterns, progressive delivery, rollback automation, capacity planning, and disaster recovery (DR) strategy. Senior SREs are less focused on keeping platforms running and more focused on resilience and reliability outcomes - building the internal capability that lets SREs and dev teams ship with confidence. Their success is measured by the same standard, at a higher bar: most of their time is in planned, high-leverage work.
- 3 or more years of experience in Operations, Sys Admin, Dev Ops, or Software engineering
- Bachelor’s Degree in CS, Computer Engineering, or related technical field
- Must have or be able to obtain a Top Secret Clearence
- Systems thinking – understanding how systems fail together, blast radius, and more
- Observability Fundamentals – not just the 3 signals, but knowing why and how to use telemetry to optimize services and engineering quality of life
- Software engineering – building automation & non-trivial APIs, git workflows, leading code reviews
- Strong Communication, Collaboration, and Organizational Skills
Skills:
(2 or more)
- Platform & Infrastructure - Kubernetes, ArgoCD/Git Ops, DR, capacity planning
- Observability - OTel standards, Grafana/Perses, Tempo, Clickhouse, Victoria Metrics
- Automation & Toil Reduction - scripting, CI/CD, runbook automation, “Dev Ops”
- Data & Alerting - dashboard quality, alert design, anomaly detection
- SRE Certifications from The Dev Ops Institute, AWS Solution Architect, or similar
- Hands-on experience with:
Python, Go, Kubernetes, Argo CD, Git Lab/Git Hub, Jenkins, Docker, Locust/Gatling, Prometheus, Grafana/Perses
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