Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Peraton is a next-generation national security company that drives missions of consequence. They are seeking a Site Reliability Engineer, Manager who will ensure the availability, reliability, and performance of complex systems while leading reliability initiatives and mentoring engineering teams.
Responsibilities
- Design, implement, and oversee reliability frameworks, including SLOs, error budgets, and automated incident response systems
- Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines to ensure seamless deployment and procedural efficiency
- Lead the creation and enhancement of observability platforms using metrics, logging, and tracing tools
- Utilize modern technologies like OpenTelemetry, AI/ML for anomaly detection, and streaming data platforms to proactively detect and resolve issues
- Coordinate with external vendors and internal teams to integrate and manage diverse systems and tools
- Ensure consistent reliability standards and practices are maintained across different technology stacks and service providers
- Drive incident response strategy by leading root cause analysis, post-mortem reviews, and continuous improvement efforts
- Identify potential risks and implement mitigation strategies to prevent service disruptions
- Mentor site reliability and engineering teams, fostering a culture of reliability, automation, and continuous learning
- Advocate for best practices in system design and reliability engineering
- Work closely with product development, DevOps, and security teams to integrate reliability into the software development lifecycle
- Influence platform strategy and roadmap based on reliability insights
- Collaborate with senior stakeholders and vendors on long-term reliability goals
- Prepare executive-level presentations that translate technical challenges into business impact
- Lead and refine agile workflows to enhance team productivity and reliability outcomes
- Champion DevOps methodologies to align development and cloud services efforts
Skills
- Extensive experience (10+ years) in site reliability engineering or related roles, preferably in multi-vendor and complex environments
- Deep knowledge of cloud-native infrastructure, container orchestration (e.g., Kubernetes), and automation tools such as Terraform, Ansible, or Chef
- Proficiency in observability technologies, such as Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, log aggregation systems, etc
- Strong programming and scripting skills for automation and tooling (Python, Go, or similar)
- Expertise in defining and implementing SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets
- Excellent communication skills for collaboration with diverse teams and external vendors
- Proven ability to lead large-scale reliability initiatives and mentor engineering teams
- Strategic thinker with a focus on aligning reliability engineering with business priorities and customer experience
- U.S. Citizenship required
- Ability to obtain agency clearance (public trust)
- Top Secret clearance preferred
Benefits
- Depending on the position, employees may be eligible for overtime, shift differential, and a discretionary bonus in addition to base pay.
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