Site Reliability Engineer Security Clearance

Position: Site Reliability Engineer with Security Clearance
Alaska Northstar Federal (ANF) is currently seeking an experienced Site Reliability Engineer to join our team on a long-term project. This is a fully remote opportunity, but preference will be to have a candidate that resides near Warner Robins, GA. The Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) will provide comprehensive engineering and operational support for cloud and application services hosted in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), ensuring sustained system reliability, scalability, and security to meet demanding government program requirements.

This position targets candidates with a record of excellence delivering technical solutions in secure Federal/DoD environments, leveraging industry best practices in automation, modern Dev Ops, and continuous improvement. Responsibilities for the role will include, but not be limited to:
Cloud Infrastructure Operations:
Deploy, administer, monitor, and sustain cloud infrastructure and application components in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), including the design and management of resilient, highly available solutions aligned to organizational requirements.
Implement monitoring and alerting using OCI APM, Log Analytics, and Events
Configure Oracle Full Stack Disaster Recovery with automated failover
Create runbooks for recovery, patching, and health checks Automation & Engineering Excellence:
Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) scripts, automation pipelines, and configuration management code for deployment, patch management, and cloud operations, leveraging tools such as Terraform and Ansible. Dev Ops & CI/CD:
Collaborate with Development and Security teams to implement and optimize automated build, integration, deployment, and testing pipelines for application releases; drive continuous improvement of Dev Ops/Dev Sec Ops  practices. Service Monitoring & Incident Response:
Implement end-to-end monitoring and alerting solutions for application/infrastructure health using OCI native services and industry-standard tools. Triage and resolve production incidents to minimize downtime and user impact, conduct root cause analysis, and drive preventive measures. Cloud Security & Compliance:
Support implementation of security controls IAW DoD RMF, NIST, and FedRAMP guidelines; coordinate Authority to Operate (ATO) sustainment; perform vulnerability remediations and ensure compliance with cyber mandates, including scanning, patching, incident response, and audit trail management. Collaboration & Reporting:
Provide cross-functional technical consultation to project stakeholders, system engineers, security professionals, and end users; produce clear, actionable technical documentation, status reports, recommendations, and compliance deliverables. Continuous Improvement:
Proactively identify opportunities to automate and enhance operational procedures, enabling increased system performance, reduced operational risk, and improved end user experience. Knowledge Management:
Maintain and update technical resources, procedures, and troubleshooting guides (e.g., SharePoint, internal wikis), and support knowledge transfer events within the engineering team and to customer stakeholders. Minimum Candidate Requirements
Candidate must be a U.S. Citizen
Candidate must have an active DoD Secret Clearance or higher
Candidate must have an active Security+ CE (or equivalent)
Candidate must have at least 4 years of experience in the following:
Oracle, OCI and ERP experience
Supporting cloud environments, with specific focus on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) or major IaaS providers
OCI Monitoring, Full Stack DRaaS, Ksplice patching
Log Analytics, event-driven automation, and metric-based alerting
Disaster recovery planning and operational readiness testing
Managing production workloads in a regulated/Federal environment.
Automation & Scripting:
Proficiency in modern scripting languages (Python, Bash, or Power Shell) and Infrastructure as Code (e.g. Terraform, Ansible).
Monitoring & Observability:
Strong experience with cloud monitoring solutions (e.g., OCI Monitoring, Splunk, Grafana) and application performance management tools.
Security & Compliance:
Familiarity with DoD, NIST,…