Lead Site Reliability Engineer

Peraton•,

1d•$112,000 - $179,000

About The Position

Peraton is seeking a Lead Site Reliability Engineer to join their team. The role focuses on ensuring the reliability, resilience, and recoverability of mission-essential platforms. This involves leading infrastructure-level disaster recovery drills, platform rebuild validation, and managing automated deployment processes. The engineer will collaborate with cross-functional teams to maintain and enhance complex cloud-based environments, integrate automation solutions, and support modernization and continuity efforts for high-visibility programs.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree and 8–10 years of relevant SRE, DevOps, cloud engineering, or infrastructure engineering experience; or 12 years of experience with a high school diploma.
Expert level hands-on knowledge of AWS services across compute, networking, storage, IAM, and serverless components.
Strong experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation) and infrastructure automation principles.
Experience building CI/CD deployment pipelines and progressive delivery mechanisms using GitHub actions or similar tools.
Deep understanding of Kubernetes administration, container orchestration, and Docker based deployments.
Proven experience validating DR processes, performing system rebuilds, and conducting data integrity checks.
Experience building monitoring tools like dashboards, metrics, logs, and alerting systems using CloudWatch, Datadog, or similar observability tools.
Proficiency with programming/scripting languages such as Python, Java, C#, or Go.
Experience debugging complex failure modes, including cascading failures, network partitions, backpressure, and eventual consistency issues.
Strong analytical and documentation skills with the ability to clearly communicate technical findings to cross-functional teams.
Ability to work in a fast-paced environment supporting high visibility, mission-critical systems.
Ability to obtain a Public Trust clearance.
US Citizen or Green Card Holder.

Nice To Haves

AWS DevSecOps Engineer certification (preferred).
Additional AWS certifications (Solutions Architect, SysOps, Developer) and/or Kubernetes certifications (CKA, CKAD).
Familiarity with Zero Trust security models and cloud security best practices.
Experience with GitLab, Jenkins, or similar CI/CD platforms.
Experience with highly regulated environments (healthcare, finance, DHS, DoD, CMS, etc.).
Experience supporting federal, defense, or large-scale enterprise programs involving legacy-to-cloud modernization.
Prior involvement in large-scale DR drills, continuity of operations (COOP), or portability/executable readiness assessments.

Responsibilities

Supporting full lifecycle platform portability and disaster recovery (DR) drill execution, including validation of platform rebuild procedures and DR playbooks.
Executing infrastructure level drill activities to ensure the platform can be fully rebuilt within the 48-hour recovery target.
Verifying end-to-end data completeness, integrity, and accuracy during drill exercises, documenting results and remediation recommendations.
Identifying exit readiness gaps across infrastructure, deployment automation, monitoring, and data recovery processes, and driving corrective actions with engineering teams.
Designing, implementing, and supporting automated IaaC workflows utilizing Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, and standardized CI/CD pipelines.
Managing and optimizing Kubernetes clusters and containerized workloads (Docker), including cluster provisioning, scaling, and workload reliability improvements.
Building and maintaining observability solutions using CloudWatch, Datadog, and other monitoring/alerting tools to ensure service reliability and proactive incident response.
Developing automation, tooling, and scripts using Python or Java to reduce manual processes and enhance operational repeatability.
Collaborating with platform engineering, security, applications, and data teams to ensure consistent, secure, and compliant platform operations.
Participating in on-call rotations, root cause analyses, and incident response activities to improve system resilience and operational excellence.