K8 platform engineer

Position Title:

Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) III

Location:

Washington, DC (Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling | 100% Onsite)

Clearance Requirements:
Active Top Secret required; SCI eligibility required (sponsorship available within 1-2 weeks of hire)

Position Status:
Full Time, Direct Hire

Pay Rate: $185,000 - $230,000 base salary + performance bonuses + company-paid training/certifications + referral bonuses | Relocation assistance available

Join a collaborative, high-performing engineering team delivering mission-critical infrastructure and reliability solutions at the highest levels of the federal government. This is a systems-leaning SRE role focused on stability, automation, incident response, and platform observability — supporting a large, multi-customer federal organization where your work directly impacts national priorities.

You’ll work alongside Platform Engineers, Dev Sec Ops  engineers, PostgreSQL DBAs, and Software Developers in a fast-paced classified environment. One interview. End of June hiring target.

• Design, deploy, and maintain mission-critical application workloads on Kubernetes and virtualized environments, ensuring scalability, availability, and compliance with government requirements.
• Build and sustain automated CI/CD pipelines, monitoring, alerting, and configuration management workflows across development, integration, staging, and production environments.
• Provision and maintain developer environments and tool chains to enable rapid, secure, and efficient software delivery.
• Identify and eliminate friction across the software development lifecycle — building developer-first platform experiences.
• Own incident response, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement activities across a large, multi-customer organization.
• Communicate clearly and confidently with senior stakeholders and high-visibility government customers.

• Active Top Secret clearance (required at time of hire; SCI sponsorship available).
• DoD 8140 certification — Security+ or higher (required).
• 7+ years of experience in systems engineering, SRE, or operations with direct ownership of production availability, performance, and reliability.
• Kubernetes experience — production ownership required, including container-native and object storage solutions (MinIO, Port Worx, S3-compatible services).
• Experience with Ansible, Desired State Configuration, Git Lab CI/CD automation, and Bash scripting.
• Experience with enterprise load-balancing solutions (F5 or equivalent).
• Experience designing and managing monitoring, alerting, and observability solutions aligned to defined SLOs.
• Experience leading or participating in incident response, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement.
• Ability to contribute immediately with minimal ramp-up in a mission-critical classified environment.
• On-call rotation participation required — flexibility essential.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related engineering field preferred; relevant experience may substitute.

This position is designated as essential personnel supporting continuity of operations and may require availability during government shutdowns, emergencies, or other critical situations. Candidates must be fully comfortable with 100% onsite requirements s is not a hybrid role.

Seneca Resources is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace where all qualified individuals are encouraged to apply.