Site Reliability Engineer – Public Sector

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Deploy, operate, and maintain Blitzy's self-hosted platform within a secure cloud environment controlled by the customer.

• Take ownership of Kubernetes-based deployments, including releases, upgrades, capacity planning, and performance benchmarking for compute-intensive AI tasks.

• Design and sustain observability that encompasses logging, metrics, tracing, and alerting within the security perimeter set by the customer.

• Act as Blitzy's technical representative on account, collaborating with customer infrastructure, security, and governance teams.

• Assist with provisioning, reviews, documentation, and operational escalations.

• Manage sensitive customer data in accordance with security requirements and advocate for best practices in security.

• Incorporate lessons learned into Blitzy's product and infrastructure development roadmap.

• Facilitate customer onboarding, deployment strategy, monitoring, alerting, incident response, SLOs, and capacity validation.

⛳️ Requirements

• U.S. citizenship is required, along with the ability to complete a customer background and badging process.

• A minimum of 3 years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, or Infrastructure Engineering.

• Strong expertise in Kubernetes and container orchestration.

• Practical experience deploying software in customer-controlled or restricted environments.

• Experience operating in isolated, restricted, or highly regulated network settings.

• Hands-on experience with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform, Pulumi, or their equivalents.

• Familiarity with at least one major cloud platform.

• In-depth knowledge of observability tools, incident management, and on-call protocols.

• Strong scripting and automation capabilities in Python, Go, Bash, or similar languages.

• Excellent communication skills for effective collaboration with customer engineering, security, and governance stakeholders.

• Experience deploying or managing software in government-accredited or similarly certified cloud environments is advantageous.

• Understanding of sensitive data management and security frameworks in regulated industries is a plus.

• Experience in supporting AI/ML workloads or related infrastructure is beneficial.

• Previous experience in forward-deployed, residency, or embedded-engineer roles is a plus.

• Experience in a high-growth startup environment is a plus.

🏝️ Benefits

• Bonus aligned with experience.

• Equity based on experience.

• Remote work options.

• Occasional travel for essential customer workshops.

• Opportunity to collaborate closely with top-tier engineers.

• Direct impact on architectural decisions.

• Equal opportunity employer dedicated to fostering a diverse and inclusive team.