Senior AWS Site Reliability Engineer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in District of Columbia, +2 more states.

📋 Description

• Assist the primary contractor and government client in Washington, DC.

• Deliver support for site reliability, production operations, and AWS cloud platform engineering.

• Design, configure, develop, integrate, test, document, and maintain AWS capabilities.

• Manage and automate AWS services, including EKS, ECS, Terraform, Packer, Vault, Consul, GitHub Actions, CI/CD pipelines, CloudWatch, OpenTelemetry, container platforms, and security automation.

• Enhance and optimize CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, container platform operations, monitoring, alerting, and secure deployment automation.

• Convert business, mission, security, accessibility, and operational requirements into technical solutions.

• Assist with platform architecture, backlog refinement, implementation planning, release readiness, and production transition tasks.

• Create reusable patterns, configuration standards, automation, documentation, and support procedures.

• Diagnose intricate platform, code, data, API, identity, security, performance, and user-experience challenges.

• Collaborate with cybersecurity, privacy, data, infrastructure, QA, change management, government stakeholders, architects, engineers, product owners, operations, and business users.

• Maintain technical documentation, design decisions, implementation notes, test evidence, and operational runbooks.

• Enhance reliability, observability, incident response, performance, capacity, and operational readiness.

• Contribute to the delivery of secure, reliable, accessible, and maintainable digital services.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software Engineering, Data Analytics, Cybersecurity, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.

• Over 7 years of experience in site reliability, production operations, and cloud platform engineering.

• Practical experience with AWS implementation, configuration, development, integration, testing, or operations.

• Experience working within Agile delivery teams and converting stakeholder requirements into maintainable technical outcomes.

• Strong practical knowledge of AWS capabilities, implementation patterns, administration, development, integration, and lifecycle management.

• Capability to design and implement secure, supportable, and upgrade-aware solutions.

• Experience with APIs, identity and access controls, data management, testing, monitoring, troubleshooting, and release coordination.

• Proficiency in documenting technical designs, configuration decisions, operational procedures, test results, and risks.

• Excellent communication skills with government stakeholders, product owners, engineers, QA, cybersecurity, and operations teams.

• Ability to obtain a Public Trust clearance.

• Preferred: AWS Solutions Architect, AWS DevOps Engineer Professional, AWS Security Specialty, Kubernetes certification, Terraform certification, or similar cloud credentials.

• Preferred: Experience supporting federal government IT environments, Public Trust programs, or regulated enterprise delivery.

• Preferred: Familiarity with Section 508, cybersecurity, auditability, data protection, and operational documentation.

• Preferred: Experience with DevSecOps, CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, infrastructure as code, or platform release automation.

• Preferred: Knowledge of NIST controls, FISMA, FedRAMP-authorized services, audit evidence, and least privilege.

• Preferred: Familiarity with Microsoft 365, ServiceNow, Atlassian, Snowflake, data catalog, CRM, or enterprise integration ecosystems.

🏝️ Benefits

• Medical insurance.

• Dental insurance.

• Vision insurance.

• 401(k) plan.

• Paid time off.

• 12 paid federal holidays.

• Flexible spending accounts.

• Professional development reimbursement.