Agentic Operations Site Reliability Engineer

Booz Allen Hamilton•McLean, VA

3d•Hybrid

About The Position

Booz Allen is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to support an agentic AI platform in AWS GovCloud at DoD Impact Level 5 (IL5). The role focuses on keeping the platform reliable and moving routine operations to pre-authorized automation. The engineer will own availability for EKS, RDS, images, and virtual desktops; build observability using Grafana, Tempo, and OpenTelemetry; and automate patching, certificates, and releases. The position is hybrid and based in McLean, Virginia. Applicants must be able to obtain a Secret clearance.

Requirements

7+ years of experience with AWS GovCloud, including multi-account landing zones.
7+ years of experience with Kubernetes (EKS), Helm, or GitOps Argo CD.
7+ years of experience with Infrastructure as Code, including AWS CDK TypeScript and Terraform.
7+ years of experience with modern observability tools, including Grafana, Loki, Tempo, Mimir, OpenTelemetry, and Splunk.
7+ years of experience with secure software development practices.
Experience supporting agentic AI platforms, agents, or autonomous workflow orchestration systems.
Experience with on-call operations, including runbooks, incident command, and post-incident reviews.
Ability to obtain a Secret clearance.
Bachelor's degree.

Nice To Haves

Experience building distributed tracing for multi-agent workflows.
Experience with AWS Systems Manager Patch Manager, image pipelines, and certificate automation in GovCloud.
Knowledge of IL5 agent execution patterns, logging, and audit frameworks.

Responsibilities

Own availability for EKS, RDS, images, and virtual desktops.
Build platform observability using Grafana, Tempo, and OpenTelemetry.
Automate patching, certificates, and releases to move routine operations to pre-authorized automation.
Support on-call operations, including runbooks, incident command, and post-incident reviews.