Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Overview

GovCIO is currently hiring for a Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to design, implement, and maintain highly available, scalable, and resilient infrastructure systems. The ideal candidate will bridge the gap between development and operations, focusing on automation, reliability, and performance optimization across multi-cloud environments. This position is located in Arlington, VA and is a hybrid remote/onsite position. Responsibilities: Key Responsibilities:

Infrastructure & Automation

• Design, deploy, and manage cloud infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) principles
• Develop and maintain Terraform modules for AWS and Azure environments
• Create and manage Ansible playbooks for configuration management and application deployment
• Implement CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions to automate build, test, and deployment processes
• Implement GitOps workflows for declarative infrastructure and application delivery
• Build self-service tools and platforms to enable development teams

Reliability & Performance

• Establish and monitor Service Level Objectives (SLOs) and Service Level Indicators (SLIs)
• Implement comprehensive monitoring, logging, and alerting solutions
• Conduct capacity planning and performance tuning
• Perform root cause analysis and implement preventive measures
• Design and execute chaos engineering experiments to validate system resilience

Disaster Recovery & Business Continuity

• Design and implement disaster recovery strategies across multi-cloud environments
• Develop and maintain backup and restore procedures
• Create and test business continuity plans
• Implement automated failover mechanisms
• Document recovery time objectives (RTO) and recovery point objectives (RPO)

Cloud Operations

• Manage and optimize AWS services (EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, ECS, EKS, CloudWatch, etc.)
• Manage and optimize Azure services (VMs, Storage, SQL Database, AKS, Monitor, etc.)
• Implement cost op