Senior Cloud Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

Peraton•,

1d•$104,000 - $166,000•Remote

About The Position

Peraton is looking for a Senior Cloud Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) who will be responsible for designing and developing advanced Python-based AWS cloud solutions and engineering reliability tools for the Cloud Foundation Services (CFS) platform in the Infrastructure, Platforms & Operations organization. This person will apply software engineering practices including Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) with Terraform to build scalable, reusable solutions and utilities that enhance platform reliability across the Federal Reserve System.

Requirements

Must be a U.S. Citizen with the ability to obtain and maintain the required Public Trust level Clearance
Bachelors Degree and 8 years of experience, or a High School diploma or equivalent and 12 years of experience
Must have 5+ years of advanced Python development experience, building enterprise-grade, highly available tools, APIs, and utilities for AWS
7+ years of extensive experience in software development with focus on reliability and platform engineering
3+ years of hands-on experience developing solutions in AWS environments with deep understanding of core services (EC2, VPC, S3, Lambda, IAM, CloudFormation, EventBridge, Step Functions etc.) and resource cost optimization
3+ years of experience applying SRE principles including observability, toil automation, SLIs/SLOs and reliability engineering
Expert-level proficiency with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform, including module development and state management
Strong experience with CI/CD pipelines, automated testing frameworks, and DevOps practices
Experience with observability tools and practices including Grafana, AWS CloudWatch, AWS Canary
Experience defining, implementing, and managing SLOs/SLIs and error budgets; familiarity with conducting RCAs and producing postmortem documentation
Working experience in Agile and Scaled Agile environments and familiarity with ITSM processes (incident, change, and problem management), resilience testing and chaos engineering practices

Nice To Haves

Experience with GoLang or additional programming languages is a plus
Bachelors Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or similar

Responsibilities

Design, develop, and maintain reliability solutions and SRE utilities using Python in AWS environments to reduce toil, improve cloud platform reliability, and industrialize SRE practices across the system
Build automation scripts, APIs, and utilities in Python to reduce toil and improve platform reliability.
Implement observability and monitoring solutions (Grafana, AWS CloudWatch) leveraging Python for custom metrics and dashboards
Build and optimize Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform to manage AWS resources related to SRE solutions, incorporating cost-efficient design principles
Optimize Infrastructure as Code (IaC) with Terraform for AWS resources, integrating Python-based workflows.
Develop CI/CD pipelines and automated testing to ensure code quality, reliability, and rapid delivery of the solutions
Define SRE standards, best practices, and guidelines for adoption across teams; establish SRE metrics like SLI, SLOs, etc.
Apply software engineering best practices including version control, code reviews, test-driven development, and documentation to all development
Participate in incident management and on-call rotation, providing technical support for SRE tools, troubleshooting production issues, and collaborating with teams to reduce incident recurrence through proactive detection and pattern analysis
Stay current with emerging AWS services, SRE methodologies, and cloud-native development technologies, and drive adoption of innovative solutions
Collaborate within Agile and Scaled Agile frameworks with cross-functional teams to deliver integrated cloud automation solutions
Produce clear, blameless postmortems with actionable items and documented failure scenarios